ITV has revealed a first-look at upcoming adrenaline-filled six-part drama ‘Red Eye’.
Starring Richard Armitage (‘Fool Me Once’) and Jing Lusi (‘Crazy Rich Asians’), the series is set on an overnight flight from London to Beijing and the corridors of power within Whitehall. It also stars Lesley Sharp, and Jemma Moore, and was created and written by screenwriter Peter A Dowling (‘Black and Blue’, ‘Flightplan’).
After attending a medical conference in Beijing and coming frighteningly close to dying in a car crash, Dr. Matthew Nolan, played by Richard Armitage, arrives home and is immediately arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport. Exhausted and confused, Nolan is accused of the murder of a woman who was in the car he crashed. Despite his protests that he was driving alone, Nolan is set to return to China to face charges.
DC Hana Li, played by Jing Lusi, is the no-nonsense London officer charged with accompanying Nolan back to Beijing. Her resentment for this assignment, and of Nolan himself, is immediate. However, in flight, when a first death occurs, DC Li begins to suspect foul play. Further deaths confirm that Nolan is in danger, and after a call from MI5, Hana finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy.
Back in London, we follow Hana’s sister, scrappy reporter Jess Li, played by Jemma Moore, who is running her own investigation into Nolan’s extradition and finds herself running for her life from an unknown assassin. And in Thames House, the head of MI5, Madeline Delaney, played by Lesley Sharp, breaks protocol and risks her entire career to not only help Hana and Nolan stay alive but also to expose an international conspiracy that seems to implicate both China and people in her own government.
‘Red Eye’ will air on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player this Spring.
