Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage will star in Red Eye, a tense flight-based ITV thriller

everything to know about ITV's Red Eye

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Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage will star in Red Eye, a tense flight-based ITV thriller

By Shahed Ezaydi

11 months ago

1 min read

Packed with mystery and conspiracies, the six-part thriller is going to make your Sunday night viewing very tense. Here’s everything you need to know about ITV’s Red Eye.


Getting on a flight is stressful enough at the best of times, but when you’re being sent back to Beijing, having been accused of murder, and people start dying around you mid-air, it reaches a new level of tension. In a new ITV thriller, Fool Me Once’s Richard Armitage finds himself in exactly this scenario.

Packed with mystery, crime and conspiracies, the six-part thriller is one to mark on your to-watch lists for 2024. So, here’s everything to know about Red Eye.

What is the plot of Red Eye?

The series will be “set between an all-night plane flight from London to Beijing and the corridors of power within Whitehall” and follows the story of Dr Matthew Nolan (played by Richard Armitage), who is arrested at Heathrow Airport shortly after almost dying in a car crash in Beijing.

everything to know about ITV thriller Red Eye

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Despite his protests that he was driving alone, Nolan finds himself being sent back to Beijing to face murder charges – accused of killing a woman who was in the car when he crashed, even though he insists he was driving alone. And so, the mystery begins.

DC Hana Li (played by Jing Lusi) is the London police officer charged with accompanying Nolan back to Beijing, but when the first death occurs on the flight, DC Li begins to suspect something bigger is at play.

Who will star in Red Eye?

Starring Jing Lusi (Crazy Rich Asians), Richard Armitage (Fool Me Once), Lesley Sharp (Before We Die) and Jemma Moore (Silent Witness), the series was created and written by screenwriter Peter A Dowling (Black And Blue, Flightplan).

When will Red Eye be released?

There’s not long to wait as Red Eye will be on Sunday 21 April at 9pm on ITV. 


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