OUT THERE: ITV DRAMA STARRING MARTIN CLUNES 'AXED' AFTER ONE SERIES

ITV have opted not to recommission one of its latest crime dramas Out There, starring Martin Clunes, for a second series after the series failed to find an audience.

An ITV spokesperson confirmed to The Sun newspaper: "We are really proud of Out There and would like to thank Martin and the production team for delivering a brilliant series. We do always hope to see our series return and we are sorry we didn’t get this drama to connect with a big enough audience to see that happen."

In the drama, which is centred around county lines drug-dealing and an escalating and insidious crime waves, 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 edgy and perilous. And the only way for Nathan, our hero, to survive in this brave new world is to learn the rules and fight back.

Out There is available to stream now on ITVX.