Bait (TV series)

Bait is an upcoming television series written by and starring Riz Ahmed for Amazon Prime Video.

Bait
Written by	Riz Ahmed
Starring	Riz Ahmed Guz Khan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Riz Ahmed Allie Moore Ben Karlin Jake Fuller Roopesh Parekh
Producers	Tony Hernandez Brooke Posch Molly Seymour
Production companies	Jax Media Left Handed Films Amazon MGM Studios
Original release
Network	Amazon Prime Video

Premise

An actor in London suffers an existential crisis.^[1]

Cast

• Riz Ahmed
• Guz Khan
• Sheeba Chaddha
• Aasiya Shah
• Sajid Hasan
• Ritu Arya
• Weruche Opia

Production

The series was developed at Jax Media in association with Left Handed Films for Amazon MGM Studios and their streaming platform Amazon Prime Video.^[2] It is executive produced by Ahmed and Allie Moore for Left Handed, and Jake Fuller on behalf of Jax Media. Ben Karlin is an executive producer and is showrunning with Ahmed. The series writers include Dipika Guha, Prashanth Venkataramanujam, Karen Joseph Adcock, Azam Mahmood, and Fatima Farheen Mirza. Roopesh Parekh is also an executive producer.^[3] Guz Khan, Sheeba Chaddha, Aasiya Shah, Ritu Arya, Weruche Opia and Sajid Hasan joined the cast in August 2024.^[4][5][6]

Filming took place in the United Kingdom in September 2024 under the title Quarter Life.^[7]

Release

In December 2025, Amazon MGM Studios announced that the series would premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival under the new title Bait.^[8][9]