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[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Hijack Season 1 finale.] Seven hours later, Flight KA29 does reach London … but not without a few more twists in the Hijack Season 1 finale. It ends with Sam (Idris Elba) using his skills as a negotiator to talk Amanda (Holly Aird), who’d taken over the cockpit and was prepared to crash the plane since her daughter’s life was being threatened, into letting him join her — then listening as Alice (Eve Myles) guided her into a rough landing. Below, co-creators and executive producers Jim Field Smith and George Kay break down the finale. I like that the season ends before Sam does actually get off the plane — it’s fitting, given the story. Was that always the plan? George Kay: It was part of the storyline, and I think we liked the fact that so much of the show happens within the journey, so it’d be cool to try...

Note: The following contains spoilers for “Hijack” Season 1 finale.

The ultra-tense final episode of “Hijack” hit Apple TV+ on Wednesday, following Sam Nelson’s (Idris Elba) last-ditch efforts to talk the hijacker(s) into landing the plane safely, as the government debated whether to shoot the flight down to stop it from crashing over London and cause mass casualties.

TheWrap chatted with the Apple TV+ series co-creators, George Kay and Jim Field Smith, about how they set the stage for the “Amanda twist.” And how the smooth-talking Sam could possibly help end an even tougher situation: The standoff between the AMPTP and writers’ and actors’ guilds.

TheWrap: The finale was very tense. Did you have a bar where you said, “It’s not intense enough, we need to add another wrinkle?”

Jim Field Smith: Once you start it being tense, you can’t make it less tense. When you call a show “Hijack,...

Hijack is the upcoming thriller series directed by Jim Field Smith, and starring Idris Elba and Archie Panjabi.

Told in real time, it follows the hijacking of a plane en route to Dubai. Sam who happens to be on board the plane, will have to put his negotiating skills to use in order to broker a peaceful deal with the hijackers.

Get ready for a nerve-racking ride!

Release Date

June 28th

Where to Watch

Apple TV+

The cast

Idris Elba/Sam Nelson

Max Beesley/Di Daniel Farrell

Archie Panjabi/Zahra Gahfoor

Holly Aird/Amanda...

Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy and Sophie Okonedo are big names doing small roles in this pleasant 2006 portmanteau film

This relatively low-budget British multi-stranded romantic comedy from 2006 is getting a rerelease this week. There’s no obvious reason why it should be trotted out now, especially since it’s such a summery story set in Hampstead Heath on a cloudless day, but it’s a pleasant enough way to pass the time.

The nimbly constructed plot, by TV writer Aschlin Ditta, posits a constellation of couples perambulating about the north London heathland who mostly pass each other by glancingly during their own specific interactions. Some vignettes are daft or feel embarrassingly dated, like the one that features Andrew Lincoln as a married bloke who gets caught by his wife (Holly Aird) leering at a French woman (the marvellously named Eglantine Rembauville) sunbathing nearby. Likewise, the segments featuring Adrian Lester struggling to...

Rising star Lucy Griffiths, best known for her role as Maid Marion in Robin Hood, stars in a new two-part drama for ITV The Little House. 24 year old Lucy (represented by Hamilton Hodell), has gone blonde again for the part of Ruth, as she did for her role as Jane in ITV's five-part drama Collision.

The Little House is a compelling two-part thriller exploring the psychological power struggles within one family and the lengths an obsessive mother will go to keep control of her son, based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory. Adapted for television by Ed Whitmore, the drama also stars BAFTA-winning actress Francesca Annis, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Rupert Evans.

"The Little House is a creepy and compelling tale of the power struggles within one family. Ed's script brilliantly captures the claustrophobia and tension in Philippa's novel and constantly plays with your perceptions of the two central women.

ITV has announced that Aiden Gillen and Keeley Hawes will star in its new drama Identity. The six-part series revolves around an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Ashes To Ashes star Hawes will play Dsi Martha Lawrence, the founder of the unit, while The Wire's Aiden Gillen is cast as Di Michael Bloom, Martha's employee who is described as the 'secret weapon' of the Identity Unit. Holly Aird, Shaun Parkes and Elyes Gabel will also star in (more)...

A heartfelt and whimsical story, "The Theory of Flight" stars Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter as disabled people thrust together who magically come to love one another. Unfortunately, this warmhearted film shows its story seams too transparently and may receive mixed reaction at the art house venues for which it seems destined.

In this scruffy delight, Branagh stars as Richard, a man frazzled by everyday life and his disintegrating romance with a loving banker. He takes to nonsensical, quixotic quests such as rigging up a homemade airplane and leaping off buildings on Charing Cross.

Not surprisingly, this captures the attention of the system, and "stressed" Richard is sentenced to community service. His assignment is wholly ludicrous, as one would expect coming from a social agency, but in this case, it's also magical. Fragile Richard must care for Jane (Bonham Carter), a young woman in the end stages of a terminal motor disease. Confined to a wheelchair and hunched, she's nonetheless a feisty spirit and, in many ways, healthier than poor Richard.

While the plot arc is transparently predictable, "Theory" bounds with energy and genuinely quirky moments. Screenwriter Richard Hawkins has crafted an uplifting scenario balanced with comedy and pathos -- it is genuinely touching. Under director Paul Greengrass' well-modulated guidance, this Fine Line release is generally pleasing entertainment.

Where "Flight" soars is in the performances: Branagh is wonderful as the addled, desperate Richard, and Bonham Carter flexes her acting muscles in her hunched portrayal that presents this woman's determination and desperation.

Technical contributions are spit and polish, and particularly eloquent is cinematographer Ivan Strasburg's tellingly framed compositions that clue us not only to the characters' daily struggles but to their transcendent inner natures as well.

THE THEORY OF FLIGHT

Fine Line Features

Credits: Producers: David M. Thompson, Anant Singh, Helena Spring, Ruth Caleb; Director: Paul Greengrass; Screenwriter: Richard Hawkins; Director of photography: Ivan Strasburg; Editor: Mark Day; Music: Rolfe Kent; Music supervisor: Sterling Meredith; Costume designer: Dinah Collin; Production designer: Melanie Allen; Casting directors: John Hubbard, Ros Hubbard. Cast: Jane: Helena Bonham Carter; Richard: Kenneth Branagh; Anne: Gemma Jones; Julie: Holly Aird. MPAA rating: R. Color/stereo. Running time -- 98 minutes.