Beloved TV star Martin Clunes leads the cast of a gritty new ITV crime drama Out There which focuses on drug dealing in a rural community.
Martin Clunes plays Nathan Williams, a man who runs a farm in Wales which has been in his family for generations, caught in a numbing rhythm of work and grief following the death of his wife, Sabine.
With concerns about his teenage son Johnny (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) and reconnecting with his friend and local drug dealer Rhys (Gerran Howell), farmer Nathan finds himself trying to protect his farm and local community from County Lines drug operations.
ITV has officially announced that the series will premiere at 9pm on Sunday, January 19 on ITV1, with the complete box set available for streaming on ITVX on the same date.
This is everything you need to know about Martin Clunes’ new crime drama, when to watch the new series, its cast and future.
ITV has released the following plot synopsis: “County lines drug dealing and its escalating, insidious crime wave sweeping the British countryside is the subject of new six-part ITV and ITVX drama, Out There, starring Martin Clunes, as a farmer confronted with dark forces creeping into his rural community.
“The drama depicts the surreptitious invasion of the land our farmer cherishes, with devastating consequences, as his livelihood, homestead and family life are threatened by local county lines drugs dealers: urban gangs using the British countryside as a field of operations, moving drugs and money between their inner-city hubs and provincial areas.
“Martin Clunes plays Nathan Williams, a man who runs a farm which has been in his family for generations, caught in a numbing rhythm of work and grief following the death of his wife, Sabine, two years previously.
“A single parent to teenager Johnny, played by Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Nathan is uniquely placed and possesses enough pent-up energy to take on the gangs that threaten to engulf his son.
“Consequently, he embarks on a personal journey that will take him ever further out of his comfort zone into a dark alternative world as he fights to protect his family, his homestead and his legacy. He’s missed all the clues that the country idyll around him has been fatally compromised, contaminated by waves of criminality spreading and mutating virus-like from the city.
“Now Nathan must accept that the rustic atmosphere of his childhood is long gone, replaced by something altogether more perilous. And the only way for Nathan to survive in this brave new world is to learn the rules and fight back.”
Written by screenwriter Ed Whitmore (Steeltown Murders, Grace, Manhunt, Silent Witness, Safe House) and director Marc Evans (Steeltown Murders, Manhunt, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Grav), and produced by Buffalo Pictures (Manhunt, Doc Martin, Arthur & George), the series is set in the beautiful Welsh countryside.
The first episode of Out There will be aired on ITV1 at 9pm on Sunday, January 19, with the following episode to air at 9pm on Monday, January 20.
The remaining episodes will air in the same time slot on ITV1.
The full series, which consists of six episodes, will also become available on ITVX on Sunday, January 19. Each episode is around 60 minutes in length.
Martin Clunes leads the cast of Out There as farmer Nathan, who only just wants to protect his farm and the wider community from drug dealers. The 63-year-old is TV acting royalty after roles in Doc Martin, Men Behaving Badly, Reggie Perrin and his travel series for ITV.
Louis Ashbourne Serkis plays Nathan’s son Johnny, who becomes entangled with the drugs operation. The son of actor and director Andy Serkis, Louis has also appeared in The Queen’s Gambit, Taboo, Endeavour and The Kid Who Would Be King.
Mark Lewis Jones also joins the cast as brother Caleb Williams, Natalia Kostrzewa as Eva, Carly-Sophia Davies as Sadie, Gerran Howell as Rhys and Michael Obiora as Scott Foley.
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