Best ITV dramas — latest drama series to enjoy on ITVX
Without Sin is a gripping drama where Vicky McClure plays the leading role of Stella Tomlinson, whose 14-year-old daughter Maisy, is found dead at their family home with the bloodied, hooded figure of Charles Stone (Johnny Harris) standing over her.
Wracked with guilt and remorse at the events of that night, she chooses to live a nocturnal existence as an Uber driver and is estranged from her husband Paul, who still lives in the family home.
When contacted by Restorative Justice, and in an attempt to move on, Stella and Paul reunite to listen to a taped recording of Charles, who they believe wants to atone for his sins and apologise for murdering their daughter.
A Spy Among Friends is based on the best-selling book by author Ben Macintyre who also wrote Operation Mincemeat.
The six-part Cold War-set series sees Damian Lewis play Nicholas Elliott, who works as an intelligence officer for MI6 and is left in turmoil when, in 1963, his close friend and colleague Kim Philby, played by Guy Pearce, decides to defect to Russia after secretly working as a double agent for the KGB.
The drama explores the tight-knit, long-standing relationship between the two men and highlights how Kim Philby’s actions had a devastating impact on British and American intelligence and far-reaching consequences for the ongoing dealings between Russia and the West.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton follows Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his wife, Madame Marguerite Benham.
Frannie finds herself gifted to Benham by the man who owns her, John Langton, and she is employed as a maid in the household much to her chagrin. But things soon take an even darker turn, as the Benhams are found murdered.
With a shocked Frannie lying next to Marguerite, she is accused of murder. After being dragged away to prison, Frannie attempts to piece together the events of that fateful night.
Stonehouse is a three-part drama series tells the incredible life story of John Stonehouse, who became Labour MP for Walsall North, with a glittering political career. Then he left his loving wife Barbara and three young children as a shocked public and media presumed he'd drowned off the coast of Miami, or had been eaten by sharks.
But that wasn't true, and in fact, he faked his own death with this drama exploring before, during and after, when he was eventually found out.
The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe tells the strange true story of canoe conman John Darwin and his wife Anne.
Former teacher John (played by Eddie Marsan) brazenly faked his own death in 2002 for life insurance money, while his wife Anne (Monica Dolan) continued his lies and ended up heading off for a new life with her husband in Panama, without the rest of their family knowing a thing.
Eddie says: "The story of how and why John Darwin faked his own death to defraud insurance companies is fascinating, and if it weren’t fact, you’d think it unbelievable."
Peaky Blinders and Gangs of London star Joe Cole takes on the iconic role of Harry Palmer, based on the globally renowned Len Deighton novel from 1962 and made famous by Michael Caine in the 1965 spy thriller.
The high-octane espionage series, set during the 1960s at the height of the Cold War, follows Palmer, a working-class British sergeant, who’s on the make in Berlin and ends up becoming a spy to avoid a stint in military jail for dodgy dealings and side hustles.
Harry Palmer’s first case is The Ipcress File, which involves a missing British nuclear scientist...
No Return is a four-part family thriller that sees Sheridan Smith and her Four Lives co-star Michael Jibson playing husband and wife duo Martin and Kathy Powell. Together with their kids, they jet off for a dream family holiday in Turkey.
That holiday swiftly becomes a nightmare, as Turkish police officers arrived in the middle of the night to bring in their 16-year-old son, Noah after he'd gone to a seemingly innocent invitation to a beach party.
Kathy and Martin are then thrown into a complex legal battle as they fight for their son's freedom amidst a complicated foreign legal system and intense media coverage.
Trigger Point sees Line of Duty's Vicky McClure tackling another action-packed role. Here, she plays "Expo" Lana Washington, an operative of London's Metropolitan Bomb Disposal Squad.
Alongside her fellow officer, Joel Nutkins (Adrian Lester), Lana finds herself at the forefront of a terror plot as part of the urgent response to a number of bombings across the city.
What follows is a thrill ride full of twists and turns as Lana and the EXPO team enter a race against time to bring an end to the plot before too many more people die.
Maxine Peake stars in Anne as the late Anne Williams, an inspirational woman who devoted her life to campaigning for justice for victims of the Hillsborough disaster. Anne's own son, 15-year-old Kevin, was among the 97 people who tragically lost their lives at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
This devastating four-part drama follows Anne as she devotes decades of her life to reaching out to other witnesses, seeking new evidence, and desperately trying to uncover the truth of what really happened at the football stadium in Sheffield.
The Tower opens with a dramatic scene after a veteran beat cop and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London. Left alive on the roof are a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer named Lizzie Adama. (Tahirah Sharif) Within hours, Lizzie has disappeared, and Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins (Gemma Whelan) is charged with leading the investigation.
The three-part series aims to get to the bottom of what happened on that fateful day, and find out what's happened to young officer Adama and what she's been up to. On top of this, there's suspicious characters lurking about, perhaps even closer to home as fellow officer Kieran Shaw (Emmett J Scanlan) also looks like he's got something to hide...
This four-part series follows DI Matthew Venn (Ben Aldridge), who’s returned to a small community in North Devon to live with his husband. He grew up in the Barum Brethren, but abandoned the strict evangelical community to go to university at 19. At this point, he publicly declared he no longer believed, much to his mother’s dismay and he's had a strange relationship with his family ever since.
After a body is found on a beach near Matthew’s home, a shadow of doubt is cast across the entire community. Matthew will work closely with DC Jen Rafferty (Pearl Mackie), a fiercely determined single mother who moved to Devon to escape her traumatic past life in London. The murder case inevitably opens up new wounds for Matthew, as dark truths are exposed.
Manhunt season 2 sees Martin Clunes returning as DCI Colin Sutton for a brand new case. This time, Colin and his team are after a serial rapist who terrorized elderly women living in South London.
Colin is on the verge of retirement, but he's drafted back in to catch a notorious criminal who has escaped justice for 17 years. Based on the diaries of the real Colin Sutton, this new series shows how Colin's assistance led to the case being solved and an incredibly dangerous individual being taken off the streets in just a matter of weeks.
Too Close is a psychological thriller mini-series based on the novel (of the same name) by Natalie Daniels. The drama explores a twisted working relationship between a forensic psychologist, Dr. Robertson, and her newest patient Connie Mortensen.
Connie is a woman who’s been accused of a heinous crime but claims she doesn’t remember anything about it. As Dr. Robertson begins working on Connie’s case, the two grow extremely close.
The cat-and-mouse series runs for three episodes and features some huge twists and turns.
Vera has been delighting crime drama fans for a whole decade now, and the fan-favorite, no-nonsense police officer based on the best-selling crime novels of Anne Cleeves returned to crack even more cases in 2022.
Finding Alice is a contemporary ITV dramedy, starring Keeley Hawes as a woman who has lost her husband. This dark comedy, which has been renewed for a second series, sees Keeley team up again with writer Simon Nye — who penned her hit series The Durrells.
Alice becomes a widow when her husband Harry falls down the stairs after they move into their dream house. But it's not just the practicalities of life without Harry that soon dawn on Alice (where is the fridge in their new smart house?!) but Harry's death also uncovers a string of dark secrets, criminality and debt that Alice must now deal with.
The cast also includes Joanna Lumley, Nigel Havers, Jason Merrells, Gemma Jones, Isabella Pappas and Kenneth Cranham.
Unforgotten is a crime drama focusing on historical cold cases that have been kept buried for years. Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar star as London detectives DI Cassie Stuart and DS Sunil 'Sunny' Khan — the perfect duo who make it their mission to fight for justice for long-forgotten victims. Each season brings a new mystery for the pair to solve, along with plenty of long-held secrets and killer twists along the way.
The Pembrokeshire Murders is a real-life crime drama. The three-part story stars Luke Evans as real-life detective DCS Steve Wilkins of the Dyfed-Powys Police force, who risked his reputation by reopening two unsolved double murder cases.
One was the killings of Peter and Gwenda Dixon, in 1989, on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. The second crime was committed almost four years earlier, at Scoveston Manor.
Steve Wilkins believed that convicted burglar, John Cooper, was responsible for both crimes. However, he didn’t have enough evidence to prove it. In a strange and bizarre twist, the killer’s eventual downfall was partly due to his appearance on the classic ITV game show Bullseye.
The Pembrokeshire Murders stars Luke Evans in the role of DCS Steve Wilkins, while Keith Allen plays killer John Cooper.
This feature-length drama — which is an adaptation of Peter James' bestselling novels — sees John Simm star as DS Roy Grace who is haunted by the disappearance of his wife. When DS Grace finds his career hanging by a thread after a recent courtroom controversy, he can't afford to make any mistakes at work. But trouble looms when ghosts from his past come flooding back as he looks into a sinister new case.
Without Sin
Without Sin is a gripping drama where Vicky McClure plays the leading role of Stella Tomlinson, whose 14-year-old daughter Maisy, is found dead at their family home with the bloodied, hooded figure of Charles Stone (Johnny Harris) standing over her.
Wracked with guilt and remorse at the events of that night, she chooses to live a nocturnal existence as an Uber driver and is estranged from her husband Paul, who still lives in the family home.
When contacted by Restorative Justice, and in an attempt to move on, Stella and Paul reunite to listen to a taped recording of Charles, who they believe wants to atone for his sins and apologise for murdering their daughter.
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