Payback is a six-part British crime thriller television series broadcast weekly on ITV1 from 4 October 2023, executive produced by Jed Mercurio and starring Morven Christie and Peter Mullan.
[1] The six-part series was created by Debbie O'Malley and had Madonna Baptiste and Jed Mercurio as executive producers for HTM Television.
O'Malley drew inspiration in part from a true-life unsolved crime in Nairn, Scotland of the Murder of Alistair Wilson, a banker shot dead on his doorstep in 2004.
[2] The series was also executive produced by O’Malley and Diederick Santer on behalf of BritBox International and Polly Hill for ITV Studios.
[7][8] Gerard Gilbert in the i praised the lead performances saying that the "excellent but unshowy Christie belongs in the same pantheon as Nicola Walker and Vicky McClure" while…Peter Mullan "returns to his menacing best".