ITV's new drama will be perfect for Harlan Coben fans

Harlan Coben fans look set to be in for a treat with ITV's juicy new drama.

Small screen adaptations of the author's books have been hugely successful in recent years, with viewers gripped by 2024's Fool Me Once, starring Michelle Keegan, Stay Close, and Missing You.

The broadcaster is now set to unveil a drama titled Adultery, created by Bafta winner Danny Brocklehurst, the man who adapted Fool Me Once for TV.

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ITV said the six-part series "focuses upon two ordinary families and messy complications" and promised lots of "passion" and "peril". And from the sounds of the synopsis, it should be full of the twists and turns that viewers have come to love in Harlan's thrillers.

Adultery, currently being filmed in and around Manchester, introduces us to Tom (played by Dominic Cooper) and his 15-year-old daughter Jess, who has found love with schoolmate Ollie.

But when Tom meets Ollie’s mum Beth (played by Romola Garai) in the most unexpected of circumstances, the two families find that their lives "are potentially turned upside down forever".

"Will Tom and Beth be able to control their desires unlike their lovestruck teenagers?" the synopsis reads.

It goes on: "Adultery raises questions about class, grief and the effects of social media, as it takes the viewer on a rollercoaster story of passion, parenthood and peril, as our protagonists Tom and Beth embark upon a passionate and intense love affair that threatens to uproot their whole lives."

Danny said Adultery was "a drama about passion" and that he had "passionately wanted to write it for some time".

"I’m thrilled to be partnering with ITV and Poison Pen to bring audiences a show about how love and sex have the capacity to lift us to the highest highs and the lowest lows," he said when the show was announced.

Other cast members include Shelley Conn and Matthew McNulty. Andrew Knott will also join the cast as Dave, Beth’s recently deceased best friend's ex-husband, while James Murray and Charley Webb will play Paul and Leah Kirkman, Tom’s brother and sister-in-law.

So far, it has not been confirmed when Adultery will air.