Hijack Season 2 heads to Berlin commuter train premieres Jan 14 2026

Idris Elba will return as the lead in the second season of the Apple TV thriller Hijack, which the streamer says will premiere globally on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, with a two‑episode debut followed by weekly releases through February 25. The new season shifts the series from the confined setting of an airplane to a tense episode on a Berlin commuter train, where a device attached to the undercarriage and hundreds of hostages raise the stakes for Elba's character, Sam Nelson.

Apple released a teaser that shows Nelson boarding a train and then confronting the new hostage crisis. The season is being presented in real time, the narrative device that defined the first season. Creators George Kay and Jim Field Smith return as co‑creators and executive producers, with Smith directing the new episodes. Filming wrapped in February, and the series has been in postproduction since, a timeline the streamer said informed its placement on a crowded release schedule.

The second season adds several new cast members, including Toby Jones, Lisa Vicari, Christiane Paul, Clare‑Hope Ashitey, Karima McAdams, and Christian Näthe, alongside returning performers such as Archie Panjabi, Christine...