Dangerous Alliances And Criminal Secrets Collide In New Thriller In Flight On Universal TV

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Set to deliver tension and twists, In Flight will premiere on Universal TV (DStv 117) on 19 February with new episodes every Thursday at 8 PM until the season finale on 26 March 2026.

When flight attendant and single mum Jo Conran is forced to smuggle drugs to protect her imprisoned son, she’s dragged into a dangerous criminal underworld. There she encounters Cormac Kelleher, who promises to keep her son safe so long as she smuggles heroin for him. Desperate, Jo reaches out to her ex, Dom Delaney, a customs officer, who begins to help Jo uncover the truth behind Cormac’s network before it’s too late.

Jo is an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation. Over the course of the series, she is forced to negotiate gangsters, corrupt cops, hired killers and an unlikely love triangle fraught with danger. Terrified, alone and out of her depth, she learns fast and hatches a daring plot to turn the tables on the outfit threatening her son. Set against the fast-paced, high-pressure backdrop of international air travel, In Flight follows Jo’s relentless quest to protect her family while entangled in a dangerous criminal syndicate.

The cast includes Katherine Kelly (Mr Bates vs. The Post Office, The Long Shadow, Happy Valley), Ashley Thomas (Them, Top Boy), Stuart Martin (Rebel Moon, Miss Scarlet and The Duke), Harry Cadby (Everything Now, Red Rose), Tony Pitts (All Creatures Great & Small), Corinna Brown (Heartstopper, The Summer I Turned Pretty), Emma Higginbottom (Ted Lasso), Bronagh Waugh (Ridley, The Stolen Girl) and Ambreen Razia (Hounslow Diaries, Ted Lasso).

In Flight is a high-octane 6x60’ drama series produced by Buccaneer Media (The Crow Girl, Marcella, The Burning Girls), written and co-created by Mike Walden (Marcella, Whitstable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Slow Horses, iBoy), produced by Brendan Mullin (Wreck, Dalgliesh) and directed by Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star).

Executive Producers are Anna Burns, Richard Tulk-Hart and Tony Wood for Buccaneer Media, Rebecca Dundon and Simon Judd for Fremantle, Mike Walden, Adam Randall, Katherine Kelly and Chris Baugh. Fremantle is handling global sales.

In Flight premieres on Universal TV on 19 February at 8PM, with new episodes airing every Thursday until 26 March.

Development Alert: NBC Renews Law And Order: SVU For Season 26, Law And Order For Season 24, Chicago Fire For Season 13, Chicago PD For Season 12 And Chicago Med For Season 10

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Dick Wolf is in for another busy season at NBC. No surprise here, the Peacock network has renewed “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: SVU” for the 2024-25 broadcast TV season. Among Dick Wolf scripted series, that leaves just “Law & Order: Organized Crime” on the bubble; a renewal for that show, which has experienced multiple showrunner changes in its short life, is still in discussion.

Among the shows, this will rep the 26th season of “Law & Order: SVU,” the 24th season of “Law & Order,” Season 13 for “Chicago Fire,” the 12th season for “Chicago PD” and the 10th season for “Chicago Med.” All of the renewed series are produced by Universal Studio Group’s Universal Television division, along with Wolf Entertainment, and all shows stream the following day on Peacock. (Wolf’s deal with Universal is currently through 2027.)

Per NBC, “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago Med” and “Chicago P.D.” (collectively known as “One Chicago“) are the top three Wednesday shows in total viewers and rank among the top 10 primetime entertainment shows this season. Also, Season 25 of “Law & Order: SVU” is Thursday’s top-rated entertainment show in the 18-49 demo.

Across all platforms, Chicago Fire” is averaging 12.6 million viewers (+86%) and is +236% in the adults 18-49 demo (live+35); “Chicago P.D.” is averaging 12.0 million viewers (+114%) and is +287% in the demo; “Chicago Med” is averaging 10.5 million viewers (+57%) and is +141% in the demo; “Law & Order: SVU” is averaging 11.2 million viewers (+111%) and is +325% in the demo; and “Law & Order” is averaging 7.7 million viewers (+56%) and is +122% in the demo.

Dick Wolf is creator and executive producer on “Law & Order: SVU”; David Graziano, Julie Martin, Mariska Hargitay, Norberto Barba, Kenneth Brown, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski also executive produce. Wolf is also creator and executive producer on “L&O,” with Rick Eid, Pamela Wechsler, Alex Hall, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski are executive producers.

“Chicago Fire” executive producers are Dick Wolf, Derek Haas, Andrea Newman, Reza Tabrizi, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski; Dick Wolf, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, Stephen Hootstein, Eli Talbert, Derek Haas, Arthur Forney, Matt Olmstead, Michael Brandt and Peter Jankowski are executive producers on “Chicago Med”; “Chicago P.D.” executive producers are Dick Wolf, Gwen Sigan, Chad Saxton, Rick Eid, Derek Haas, Gavin Harris, Jason Beghe, Arthur Forney, Peter Jankowski and Michael Brandt.