Trever Eve, Helen Baxendale join ITV kidnap drama

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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Trever Eve, Helen Baxendale join ITV kidnap drama
Trever Eve, Helen Baxendale join ITV kidnap drama (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

ITV has announced a new three-part thriller series, Kidnap and Ransom, which will star Trevor Eve and Helen Baxendale. Kidnap and Ransom has been written by Patrick Harbinson, who's written episodes of 24, Law and Order and ER, and will film in South Africa this spring. Trevor Eve will play an international hostage negotiator, Dominic King, who gets involved in the case of a businesswoman (Emma Fielding) who is kidnapped in South Africa. But when the release is botched and they strike again in Britain, the motives of the kidnapper, Willard (John Hannah), become far more sinister. With trouble brewing at home with his wife, Sophie (Natasha Little) and teenage daughter - and his team, boss Angela (Helen Baxendale) and ambitious assistant Carrie (Amara Karan) pushed to the limit, King must draw on all his reserves to bring the victims home alive. No word yet on when Kidnap and Ransom will screen.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.