Apple TV+ is to premiere New Regency and Scott Free Productions’ new conspiracy thriller “Prime Target” in January.

The drama stars Leo Woodall (“The White Lotus,” “One Day”) and Quintessa Swindell (“Black Adam,” “In Treatment”) and is created by writer Steve Thompson (“Sherlock,” “Vienna Blood”), who also serves as executive producer.

“Prime Target” centres on brilliant young maths postgraduate, Edward Brooks (played by Woodall), who is on the verge of a major breakthrough. If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers, he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon, he begins to realise an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before it’s even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders, a female NSA agent (played by Swindell) who’s been tasked with watching and reporting on mathematicians’ behaviour. Together, they start to unravel the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of.

The cast also includes Stephen Rea (“The Crying Game”), David Morrissey (“Sherwood,” “The Walking Dead”), Martha Plimpton (“The Regime”), Sidse Babett Knudsen (“Borgen”), Jason Flemyng (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”), Harry Lloyd (“Game of Thrones”), Ali Suliman (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “Paradise Now”), Fra Fee (“Rebel Moon,” “Hawkeye”) and Joseph Mydell (“The Eternal Daughter”).

Produced for Apple TV+ by New Regency with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, Ed Rubin serves as executive producer for New Regency alongside Beth Pattinson, Emma Broughton, Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan and Michael Schaefer; Marina Brackenbury is executive producer for Scott Free Productions along with David W. Zucker and Scott. Laura Hastings-Smith serves as executive producer alongside writer and director Brady Hood (“Top Boy,” “Great Expectations”), who will also direct all eight episodes.