Tahar Rahim & ‘Boiling Point’s Izuka Hoyle Cast In Sky Series ‘Prisoner’ From Matt Charman​on February 6, 2025 at 2:30 pm

The Serpent star Tahar Rahim and Boiling Point’s Izuka Hoyle are leading Prisoner, the Sky thriller series from Matt Charman. The pair are joined by Eddie Marsan (Back to Black, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe), Catherine McCormack (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, 28 Weeks Later), Leonie Benesch (September 5, Babylon Berlin), Finn Bennett (Black Doves, True Detective), Sam Troughton (Lockerbie: A Search […]The Serpent star Tahar Rahim and Boiling Point’s Izuka Hoyle are leading Prisoner, the Sky thriller series from Matt Charman. The pair are joined by Eddie Marsan (Back to Black, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe), Catherine McCormack (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, 28 Weeks Later), Leonie Benesch (September 5, Babylon Berlin), Finn Bennett (Black Doves, True Detective), Sam Troughton (Lockerbie: A Search   

The Serpent star Tahar Rahim and Boiling Point’s Izuka Hoyle are leading Prisoner, the Sky thriller series from Matt Charman.

The pair are joined by Eddie Marsan (Back to Black, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe), Catherine McCormack (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, 28 Weeks Later), Leonie Benesch (September 5, Babylon Berlin), Finn Bennett (Black Doves, True Detective), Sam Troughton (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Black Doves), Laurie Davidson (The Girlfriend, Mary & George), Ken Nwosu (Black Doves, Sticks and Stones), Brían F. O’Byrne (Conclave, The Wonder) and Youssef Kerkour (Lockerbie: A Search For Truth).

Prisoner follows a principled young prison officer escorting a dangerous, high-value prisoner to court to testify against his elite crime syndicate. Throughout the journey, their relationship twists and turns, with the stakes escalating as the crime syndicate stops at nothing to track them down. Deadline revealed the project several weeks back from Charman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, and it is being directed by Otto Bathurst (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth). Charman’s previous TV show The Mothership was axed by Netflix but he is working on another, The Choice, starring Suranne Jones.

Rahim was Golden Globe-nominated for his role in BBC-Netflix’s The Serpent along with 2021 movie The Mauritanian. Hoyle stars as Camile in the movie and TV versions of Boiling Point opposite Stephen Graham, while other credits include The CW’s The Outpost and Channel 4 hit comedy Big Boys.

Prisoner is produced by Binocular in association with Sky Studios. The series is written and created by showrunner Charman. Haleema Mizra is deputy showrunner and writer. The series is directed by Bathurst, with later episodes directed by Pia Strietmann (Herrhausen – The Banker and The Bomb). Executive producers are Charman, Foz Allan, Bathurst and Adrian Sturges for Sky Studios. Barney Reisz serves as series producer. The series will be available on Sky in the UK and Ireland, with NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution handling international sales.