Until I Kill You brings viewers to ITVX

Until I Kill You draws record audiences on ITVX…

The drama is based on the extraordinary true story of Delia Balmer, who survived a near-fatal relationship with a murderer. Until I Kill You is currently tracking as one of ITVX’s biggest ever dramas, second only to Mr Bates v The Post Office, having drawn huge streaming audiences in its first week, with over 10 million streams and counting.

Anna Maxwell Martin takes the role of Delia Balmer, the woman at the centre of the drama, and renowned actor and director Shaun Evans plays murderer John Sweeney.

The drama narrates the ordeal Delia suffered at the hands of John Sweeney, and her traumatic journey through the police and criminal justice system as they attempt to prosecute him for his crimes.

In 1991 Delia leads an itinerant and solitary life in London working as an agency nurse. When she meets fellow free-spirit John Sweeney in a local pub, it seems like the connection she has been searching for. As the relationship develops, Sweeney’s artistic, anti-establishment persona gives way to a darker side, culminating in a series of violent attacks on Delia, during which he tells her he killed his former girlfriend and disposed of her body in an Amsterdam canal.

Sweeney is arrested but, due to a catastrophic failure to realise how dangerous he is, granted bail. He very quickly pursues Delia and subjects her to a horrific, nearfatal attack. She survives, but Sweeney evades capture and disappears. Shattered by the trauma and injuries inflicted by Sweeney, Delia bravely seeks to rebuild her life. But Sweeney returns seven years later and is arrested for the murder of another girlfriend in North London.

Delia’s fragile recovery is shattered all over again as she has to face Sweeney in open court, her testimony vital to the prosecution case against him. This is the story of one woman’s astonishing will to survive through physical and emotional torment, despite the failings of the institutions which were meant to protect her.

Since dropping on ITVX on Sunday November 3rd, streams and streaming hours overall have been up by nearly a third, compared with the same period last year, and the series itself has been streamed 10.7 million times in its first week.

Of the viewers who watched the series ahead of its Monday night broadcast, 80% of those who started on episode two have already watched the whole series.