Exclusive: Apple TV+ has greenlighted The Wanted Man, an eight-episode thriller drama starring Hugh Laurie from Hijack co-creator George Kay, New Pictures (The Long Shadow) and Kay’s Observatory Pictures.

Clockwise Top L-r: Thandiwe Newton, Fionn Whitehead, Gina McKee, Hazel Doupe, Elliott Heffernan and Stephen Dillane

Thandiwe Newton (Westworld), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Gina McKee (My Policeman), Hazel Doupe (Say Nothing), Blitz star Elliott Heffernan and Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones) also star in the series,created, written and executive produced by Kay.

The Wanted Man charts the rise and fall of Felix Carmichael (Laurie), the elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate ‘The Capital.’ Untouchable for twenty years, Carmichael is finally apprehended, but while he’s held in the infamous Staplehurst prison, it becomes clear that he’s been betrayed by one of his own. As the traitor moves to dismantle the empire he has built,...