Prime Target on Apple TV+ first look – Today, Apple TV+ announced the premiere date for the new conspiracy thriller “Prime Target” starring SAG Award winner Leo Woodall (“The White Lotus,” “One Day”) and Quintessa Swindell (“Black Adam,” “In Treatment”).
Created by award-winning writer Steve Thompson (“Sherlock,” “Vienna Blood”) who also serves as executive producer, the new drama is produced for Apple TV+ by New Regency with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions.
The eight-episode series will premiere on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, 22 January, 2025, with the first two episodes, followed by one episode weekly, every Wednesday through 5 March.
“Prime Target” features a brilliant young math postgraduate, Edward Brooks (played by Woodall), on the verge of a major breakthrough.
If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers, he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon he begins to realise an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before it’s even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders, a female NSA agent (played by Swindell) who’s been tasked with watching and reporting on mathematicians’ behaviour.
Together they start to unravel the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of.
The cast also includes Academy Award nominee and BAFTA Award winner Stephen Rea (“The Crying Game”), BAFTA Award nominee David Morrissey (“Sherwood,” “The Walking Dead”), Emmy Award winner Martha Plimpton (“The Regime”), BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Sidse Babett Knudsen (“Borgen”), SAG Award nominee Jason Flemyng (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”), BAFTA Award nominee Harry Lloyd (“Game of Thrones”), Ali Suliman (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “Paradise Now”), Fra Fee (“Rebel Moon,” “Hawkeye”) and Joseph Mydell (“The Eternal Daughter”).
Produced for Apple TV+ by New Regency with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, Ed Rubin serves as executive producer for New Regency alongside Beth Pattinson, Emma Broughton, Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan andMichael Schaefer;Marina Brackenbury is executive producer for Scott Free Productions along with David W. Zucker and Scott. Laura Hastings-Smith serves as executive producer alongside acclaimed writer and director Brady Hood (“Top Boy,” “Great Expectations”), who also directed all eight episodes.
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Prime Target on Apple TV+ – Wednesday 22 January, 2025
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Prime Target on Apple TV+ first look
