Apple TV+ has slated the premiere of the conspiracy thriller Prime Target, starring SAG Award winner Leo Woodall (The White Lotus, One Day), for January 22.
The eight-parter centers on a brilliant young math postgraduate who is 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 realizes an unseen enemy is out to destroy his idea, and he is thrown into the orbit of an NSA agent tasked with watching and reporting on mathematicians’ behavior, played by Quintessa Swindell (Black Adam, In Treatment).
The cast also includes Stephen Rea (The Crying Game), David Morrissey (Sherwood, The Walking Dead), Martha Plimpton (The Regime), Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen), Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), 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).
Prime Target is created by Steve Thompson (Sherlock, Vienna Blood) and directed by Brady Hood (Top Boy, Great Expectations), both of whom also executive produce. It is produced by New Regency with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions. In addition to Thompson and Hood, executive producers are Ed Rubin, Beth Pattinson, Emma Broughton, Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan and Michael Schaefer for New Regency; Marina Brackenbury, David W. Zucker and Scott for Scott Free Productions; and Laura Hastings-Smith.
The first two episodes of the series will debut on January 22, followed by one episode weekly every Wednesday through March 5.