British broadcaster Sky has unveiled a first-look at its high-stakes action thriller Prisoner (below).
Deadline revealed that Sky had greenlit the series last year and the Comcast-owned network revealed that the six-part series will debut in 2026.
Prisoner stars The Serpent’s Tahar Rahim and Boiling Point’s Izuka Hoyle. It follows a deadly manhunt where trust can be fatal.
The series follows Amber (Hoyle), a principled young prison transport officer tasked with escorting Tibor (Rahim), a trained killer and high-value inmate, to court to testify against his elite crime syndicate. When their convoy is brutally ambushed, she’s forced to put her life in his hands. As the sole survivors, handcuffed and on the run, they must race to reach their destination alive and on time. Along the way, their uneasy alliance is tested as the syndicate closes in. Trust becomes a weapon and their shackled survival a moral dilemma, forcing Amber to confront how far she’ll go to protect what matters most.
The cast also includes Eddie Marsan (Back to Black), Catherine McCormack (28 Weeks Later), Leonie Benesch (September 5), Finn Bennett (True Detective), Sam Troughton (Black Doves), Laurie Davidson (The Girlfriend), Ken Nwosu (Sticks and Stones), Brian F. O’Byrne (Conclave) and Youssef Kerkour (Lockerbie: A Search For Truth).
It was created by Charman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, who also created Netflix’s Treasonwhich launched on the service in 2022 and starred Olga Kurylenko, Oona Chaplin, Ciaran Hinds and Charlie Cox, and Netflix’s Hostagewhich starred Suranne Jones as the British Prime Minister and Julie Delpy as the French President.
Charman is well known for his film work, which also includes Amazon original Killer Heat, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Richard Madden and Oasiswhich also starred Madden alongside Anil Kapoor. He also exec produced Operation Finalewritten by Matthew Orton, about the hunt for Adolf Eichmann, directed by Chris Weitz.
The series will be produced by Charman’s own production company Binocular Productions.
Prisoner (Sky)
