Apple TV+ Set Target Date for 'Prime Target'

Apple TV+ will extend its current run of streaming one British series a month into 2025. Its latest, Prime Target, was first announced just under a year ago, in February 2024; a good old-fashioned thriller where a scholar on the verge of a global-level breakthrough finds himself being pursued by those who would like to prevent him from doing so, not to mention those who would like to be the ones to take credit for it instead of him.

Starring British actor Leo Woodall (best known in the States for his turn in The White Lotus) and American-born Quintessa Swindell (Trinkets), the eight-episode series is the brainchild of writer Steve Thompson (Sherlock). Woodall plays Edward Books, the scholar in question, who is, in this case, a maths genius. Swindell plays the American NSA agent put in charge of his safety as the two try to keep him alive and safe long enough to finish figuring out his world-problem-solving equation and the answer to life, the universe, and everything. (We promise to act surprised if it's 42.)

While the "genius-caught-in-a-conspiracy" is pretty popular currently, Apple TV+ tends to go all out on these sorts of series, especially the globe-trotting aspects, and the first images released for Prime Target looks to be a visual feast if nothing else.