Apple TV+ has announced a new eight-episode drama, “The Wanted Man,” starring SAG and GoldenGlobe Award winner Hugh Laurie (“House,” “The Night Manager”). From creator, writer and showrunner George Kay (“Hijack,” “Lupin”), the series is co-producedby New Pictures (“The Long Shadow,” “Catherine the Great”) and Kay’sObservatory Pictures.=

The series also stars Emmy, SAG and BAFTA Award winner Thandiwe Newton (“Westworld,” “Crash”), Fionn Whitehead (“Dunkirk,” “Emily”), BAFTA Award winner and Olivier Award nominee Gina McKee (“My Policeman,” “The Years"), Hazel Doupe (“Say Nothing,” “Kathleen IsHere”), Elliott Heffernan (“Blitz”) and BAFTA Award winner Stephen Dillane (“Game of Thrones,” “The Hours”).

“The Wanted Man” charts the rise and fall of Felix Carmichael (Laurie), the elusive and powerful head ofnotorious 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, Carmichael must risk everything in a daring escape. Willing to stop at nothing to take his revenge,if he succeeds, he’ll be a wanted man once more. 

“The Wanted Man” is created,written and executive produced by Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-nominatedshowrunner Kay, alongside Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-nominated executive producer Willow Grylls (“Des,” “The Missing”) and BAFTA Award-nominated executive producer Matt Sandford (“The Long Shadow”). The series is directed by acclaimed, Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Jakob Verbruggen (“The Fall,” “LondonSpy,” “Dark Matter”).

Release date to be announced...

• Hugh Laurie is represented by Hamilton Hodell, WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Photographer credit is Mary McCartney.