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A gang of criminals teaming up to pull off a big heist is familiar ground in film and TV, but ITV Studios-distributed drama Frauds flips the script by making this a female team.

Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker plays Sam and is part of the ensemble alongside Suranne Jones, who co-created the show, and a cast including Elizabeth Berrington, Kate Fleetwood and Talisa Garcia.

Whitaker has journeyed through space and time as the Doctor but Frauds served up something new, she told Deadline in Cannes, where ITV Studios had the drama as one of its big titles at the MIPCOM market.

“We’ve never seen those parts for us before,” she said. “It is an amazing ensemble and all of our characters have a unique energy and skillset, which is why, as a team, we end up all working together so brilliantly. The heist genre doesn’t usually involve this group of people.

Most people might know Jodie Whittakerfor her stint aboard the Tardis as the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who. A controversial era for the show, time away has led some to appreciate more what Whittaker brought to the role. However, others will also know Whittaker for her penchant for delivering emotionally captivating, dramatic performances, such as in the recent Netflix miniseries, Toxic Town, and the critically acclaimed ITV series Broadchurch, which also starred David Tennant and Olivia Colman.

Now, Whittaker is teaming up once again with ITV, this time alongside Hostage's Suranne Jones in the upcoming heist thriller Frauds. Set to debut this fall in the UK, ITV has recently revealed...

Jodie Whittaker's stint as the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who may have been controversial and sadly led to a drop in ratings, but fans were pleased to see her return to the role in the most recent finale, alongside Ncuti Gatwa's departing fifteenth incarnation. A hugely talented actress, Whittaker has continued to deliver top performances despite the mixed reception to her Doctor Who era, with her recent starring role in Toxic Town alongside the likes of Aimee Lou Wood and Bridgerton's Claudia Jessie illustrative of this.

Now, fans of Whittaker can officially get their first glimpse of her next project, a six-part British crime thriller in which the Broadchurch star appears alongside Vigil lead Suranne Jones, who is herself a Doctor Who alum. The series is titled Frauds and is scheduled to hit ITV later this year, although an exact release date is yet to be announced. The...

Exclusive: Talisa Garcia, Karan Gill, Elizabeth Berrington and Christian Cooke have joined the cast of the Suranne Jones- and Jodie Whittaker-starring ITV drama series Frauds.

As we revealed in January, the buzzy six-part drama from Ghosts producer Monumental Television stars Jones and Whittaker as a pair of confidence tricksters in southern Spain separated by a 10-year jail spell. Jones’ Bert attempts to lure Whittaker’s Sam out of retirement for one final multi-million pound art heist, but their toxic friendship could ruin them both before they pull off the job.

García joins the cast as 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. However, she feels drag is now holding her back and and Bert and Sam, despite their thorny history, might just be able to offer her salvation.

Exclusive: Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker are teaming on an ITV heist thriller about two skilled confidence tricksters separated by a 10-year prison sentence.

Gentleman Jack star Jones has created Frauds with Anne-Marie O’Connor, who she previously teamed with on ITV’s Maryland.

Jones will play Bert, who has spent the last decade in a Spanish prison cell with a burning desire to pull off one final job that will prove her worth. Doctor Who star Whittaker is Sam, her partner, who for the past decade has been content to live a life of quiet anonymity in the hills of Southern Spain. The story begins as Sam anxiously waits for Bert to be released from a maximum-security prison on grounds of compassionate discharge. On the pretext of one final, multi-million-pound art heist, Bert attempts to lure Sam out of retirement, but at what cost?

The show comes from Ghosts producer...

PBS series “Masterpiece” announced it’s bringing the well-received three-part U.K. miniseries “MaryLand” to the States. The drama stars Stockard Channing (“The West Wing”), Eve Best (“House of the Dragon”) and Suranne Jones (“Gentleman Jack”).

The series, which makes its PBS premiere on April 7, 2024, was co-created by star Jones and Anne-Marie O’Connor. It follows sisters Becca (Jones) and Rosaline (Best), who find themselves thrown together by the sudden death of their mother, Mary. The pair learn that their mother was living an entirely secret life on the Isle of Man, far from her home with her husband, Becca and Rosaline’s father.

Stockard Channing as Cathy

“As the sisters travel through the early days of grief and discover their

mother’s secrets, they meet their mother’s quirky friend Cathy (Channing)

who seems to know more about their mother than they do,” the logline states. “Becca and Rosaline find...

The upcoming Suranne Jones-starring drama series Maryland has added Eve Best (House of the Dragon) and Stockard Channing (The Good Wife) to its cast. Created by Jones (Gentlemen Jack) and Anne-Marie O’Connor (Trollied), Maryland centers on the relationship between two sisters who have been driven apart by complex family dynamics. Jones plays the down-to-earth mother of two, Becca, while Best plays the disciplined high-flyer, Rosaline. The three-part drama will air on Itvx in the U.K., while ITV Studios has distribution rights for international markets. According to Deadline, the series sees the two sisters travel to the Isle of Man to repatriate the body of their mother, Mary, leaving their father, Richard (George Costigan), at home in Manchester. While confined on the island, Becca and Rosaline discover shocking information about their mother and find it impossible to escape the ripple effect of her secrets and lies. Best is currently...

Eve Best and Stockard Channing are adding more star quality to the cast of Suranne Jones’ upcoming three-part Itvx drama Maryland.

Created by Jones and Trollied creator Anne-Marie O’Connor, Maryland focuses on the relationship between two sisters, down-to-earth mother of two Becca (Jones) and disciplined high-flyer Rosaline (Best) who have been driven apart by complex family dynamics.

They travel to the Isle of Man to repatriate the body of their mother, Mary, leaving their father Richard at home in Manchester. Confined on the island, they discover shocking information about their mother and find it impossible to escape the ripple effect of her secrets and lies.

Best is currently enjoying strong reviews for her role as dragon rider Rhaenys Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon.

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ABC has given a script commitment with significant penalty to Icon, a soapy fashion drama from Condé Nast Entertainment, whose parent company publishes the fashion-focused magazines Vogue and Glamour. Empire helmer/executive producer Sanaa Hamri is on board to direct. 20th TV, where Condé Nast has had a first-look deal, is the studio. British Anne Marie O'Connor (Trollied) writes the Icon script, which is described as a splashy, edgy soap set in the upscale world of…...