Created by George Kay (“Lupin,” “Criminal”) and Jim Field Smith (“Criminal” “Truth Seekers”), the first writer and second principal director of the series, “Hijack” also stars the Emmy Award winner and NAACP Image Award winner Archie Panjabi (“The Good Wife,” “Snowpiercer,” “Blindspot”).

Narrated in real time, “Hijack” is a high-voltage thriller that follows the journey of a plane hijacked to London for a seven-hour flight, with ground authorities desperately trying to find a solution. Idris Elba plays Sam Nelson, a skilled negotiator who must use all his cunning to try to save the lives of passengers, but the high-stakes strategy he wants to employ could be his undoing. Archie Panjabi plays Zahra Gahfoor, a counter-terrorism agent who is grounded when the plane is hijacked and becomes part of the investigation himself. In addition to Elba and Panjabi, the series stars Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Eve Myles, Neil Maskell, Jasper Britton, Harry Michell, Aimee Kelly, Mohamed Elsandel and Ben Miles.

Hijacks was produced by 60Forty Films, the production company founded by Emmy Award-winning executive producers Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta (“Slow Horses“, “The Essex snake“) as part of his deal with Apple TV+, along with George Kay and Jim Field Smith’s production company, Idiotlamp Productions, also marks the first series of the deal between Idris Elba and his Green Door Pictures and Apple TV+. George Kay and Jim Field Smith are both executive producers alongside Elba, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Kris Thykier.