ITV has released more details about Frauds, a new heist drama co-created and starring, Suranne Jones.
The 6-part series will also feature Jodie Whittaker, Talisa García (Baptiste, Blurred), Christian Cooke (Rematch, Plainclothes, Point Blank) Elizabeth Berrington (Lost Boys and Fairies, Good Omens, Stella) and Karan Gill (The Decameron, Brian And Margaret, I May Destroy You).
Jones and Whittaker take the lead as “complex duo” Bert and Sam, whose intertwined past resurfaces in the setting of Southern Spain after a decade of separation.
While Sam (Whittaker) has sought a low-key life, Bert (Jones)’s release from prison ignites her ambition “for one final, significant score.”
Talisa García plays Miss Take, “a smart, funny, and acerbic Spanish trans woman in her fifties” who hosts drag bingo at the club on the Costa del Sol.
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Elizabeth Berrington is Jackie Diamond, “a sharp-witted and sharp-mouthed magician’s assistant to her husband The Great Diavolo”, but she’s the real talent, the the master illusionist who invents their tricks and puts together all their elaborate shows.
Christian Cooke is a Bradford money-lender who tracks them to Spain, while Karan Gill is Bilal, an idiosyncratic Bradford loner with an unusual secret – he’s the world’s greatest forger. He becomes the key to pulling off the heist.
Set to air on ITV and STV later this year, it’s being made by Monumental Television (The Marlow Murder Club, Maryland, Harlots, Ghosts, Murder in Provence), in association with ITV Studios. The series is a co-production with TeamAkers, the production company founded by Suranne Jones and Laurence Akers.
Jones co-created the drama with writer Anne-Marie O’Connor. It’s directed by Giulia Gandini (My Time, Shetland) and Brian O’Malley (Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue, Alex Rider).
