Hijack (stylized as H/JACK) is a seven-part thriller miniseries created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Idris Elba. It premiered on 28 June 2023 on Apple TV+.

Premise
Sam, a talented business negotiator, must use his skills to broker a peaceful end to a hijacking of a seven-hour flight from Dubai to London.

Cast and characters

Main
 Idris Elba as Sam Nelson, a corporate business negotiator
 Neil Maskell as Stuart Atterton / Gerald Taylor, the leader of the hijackers
 Christine Adams as Marsha Smith-Nelson, Sam's estranged wife, a physics professor
 Eve Myles as Alice Sinclair, an air traffic controller at London Heathrow Airport
 Archie Panjabi as DCI Zahra Gahfoor, O'Farrel's former partner and a member of SO15
 Max Beesley as DI Daniel O'Farrel, Marsha's current boyfriend, a Metropolitan Police officer
 Ben Miles as Captain Robin Allen, the pilot of Kingdom Airlines Flight 29
 Hattie Morahan as Louise Aitchison, the British foreign secretary
 Neil Stuke as Neil Walsh, the British home secretary
 Kaisa Hammarlund as Anna Kovacs, the first officer of Kingdom Airlines Flight 29
 Zora Bishop as Deevia Khan, the lead flight attendant
 Jeremy Ang Jones as Arthur, a flight attendant
 Kate Phillips as Collette Fisher, a flight attendant who is having an affair with Robin
 Jasper Britton as Terry Reid / Marcus Sutton, one of the hijackers
 Jack McMullen as Lewis Atterton / Ryan Cunningham, one of the hijackers
 Aimée Kelly as Jamie Constantinou / Bella Cunningham, one of the hijackers
 Mohamed Elsandel as Jaden / Alexander Kier, one of the hijackers
 Simon McBurney as Edgar Janssen, a powerful criminal

Recurring
 Harry Michell as Hugo, the passenger sitting next to Sam
 Mohammad Faisal Mostafa as Abdullah, a Dubai air traffic controller who manages KA29
 Holly Aird as Amanda, a passenger
 Fatima Adoum as Rashida, a passenger
 Nebras Jamali as Nasir, a passenger
 Nikkita Chadha as Neela, an airport security screener who leaves her station mysteriously
 Antonia Salib as Leesha, a first-class passenger
 Gretchen Egolf as Adelaide
 Lucia Aliu as Lizzy Blakefield
 Mei Henri as Naomi, a teenage passenger
 Chantelle Alle as Kacey, a teenage passenger
 James Burrows as Jonty, a passenger with a criminal history
 Alex Macqueen as Tindall, a government official
 Kevin Eldon as Devlin, a mysterious businessman
 Richard Hope as Phillip Paxton, an Anglican priest
 Julia Deakin as Claire Paxton, Phillip's wife

Episodes

Production
It was announced in April 2022 that Apple TV+ had greenlit the miniseries, which would see Idris Elba starring and serving as an executive producer. George Kay would write the script, and Jim Field Smith would direct. In May, Archie Panjabi joined the cast.

Production began on 9 May 2022 in Aylesbury and wrapped up on 18 November 2022. The series consists of seven episodes.

Reception
 

The week of its finale, 31 July–6 August 2023, Hijack became the second Apple TV+ show to be listed on the Nielsen streaming rankings for original shows when it received 357 million minutes of viewing time.

References

External links
 Hijack on Apple TV+
 

2023 British television series debuts
2020s British drama television series
Apple TV+ original programming
British thriller television series
English-language television shows
Television shows about aviation accidents or incidents
Television shows set in London
Television shows set in the United Arab Emirates
Television shows filmed in England
Aircraft hijackings in fiction