Frauds is a British crime thriller television miniseries for ITV starring Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker.
Contents
Premise
Having spent ten years in prison, Bert reunites with former partner Sam with the idea for a new heist.
Cast
Suranne Jones as Roberta "Bert" Mancini
Jodie Whittaker as Martha "Sam" Samuels
Horacio Colomé as Miguel
Talisa Garcia as Miss Take
Abdul Salis as Mateo
Karan Gill as Bilal
Elizabeth Berrington as Jackie Diamond
Lee Boardman as The Great Diavolo
Karise Yansen as Komet
Christian Cooke as Deegs
Thais Martin as Caitlin
Kate Fleetwood as Celine
Javier Taboada as Blas
Nansi Nsue as Amaya
Victor Solé as Carlos Pérez
Aïda Ballmann as Doctor
Production
The series was created by Anne-Marie O'Connor and Suranne Jones, with O'Connor writing the script. O'Connor and Jones are executive producers alongside Alison Owen and Katie Kelly for Monumental Television, part of ITV Studios. Debra Hayward, Alison Carpenter, and Jill Forbes also executive produce. It is a co-production with TeamAkers. Pat Tookey-Dickson is series producer, with Giulia Gandini leading director on the series.
Suranne Jones leads the cast alongside Jodie Whittaker. The cast was expanded in 2025 to include Talisa Garcia, Karan Gil, Elizabeth Berrington, Lee Boardman, and Christian Cooke, amongst others. Filming began in Spain in January 2025.
The series was primarily filmed in Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Broadcast
The first episode of the series was broadcast on 5 October 2025.
Reception
The London Evening Standard gave the series 4 out 5 stars, praising the pace, writing, and performances.
Writing in The Guardian, Lucy Mangan gives the series 5 out of 5 stars, describing the series as "a fantastically stylish, emotionally rich and profoundly intelligent piece of entertainment that is feminist to its bones without preaching and in every way a triumph".
Craig Mathieson, writing in The Sydney Morning Herald gave the series 4 stars out of 5. He praises its depth, saying that it is more than a conventional heist movie: "the threads that are being woven into something new here have a broader provenance. Think David Mamet’s House of Games, not just the Ocean’s movies... There’s a psychological layer also at work, rife with abandonment issues and latent anger".