TV Shows Like Hijack
If you like Hijack, here are 10 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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Hijack works because it commits to a single, merciless premise: one flight, one negotiator, one ticking clock. Sam Nelson is not a trained operative or a government agent. He is a corporate dealmaker who happens to be on the wrong plane, and that specificity is what gives the show its tension. The hijacking is the whole story, not the backdrop for something else, and the series earns its thrills by staying inside that pressure cooker from takeoff to landing. The simultaneous ground-level investigation, the air traffic controllers watching helplessly, the other passengers with their own hidden connections to the plot, it all keeps the screws tightening without ever letting the air out of the cabin.
The best shows like Hijack
1. The Day of the Jackal
Like Hijack, The Day of the Jackal is fundamentally a chase thriller where the pleasure comes from watching two very sharp people try to stay one step ahead of each other. The Jackal operates with the same cool, methodical intelligence that Sam Nelson brings to his negotiations, and the British intelligence officer pursuing him gives the show the same dual-perspective structure Hijack used so well. If you liked the sense that every scene is moving the clock forward, this one delivers that consistently.
Likely Renewed90%
2. MobLand
MobLand shares Hijack's London setting and its interest in a skilled operator trying to manage a crisis that keeps escalating beyond anyone's control. The fixer at the center of the crime-family war occupies roughly the same narrative role as Sam Nelson, a person whose job is to make problems disappear who suddenly cannot make this particular problem disappear. It is more brutal and less procedural than Hijack, but the tension of watching someone improvise under mounting pressure is very much the same.
Stream on fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel
Renewed100%
3. The Capture
The Capture is the recommendation that will feel most immediately familiar to Hijack fans. It is a British thriller built around surveillance, manipulation, and the question of what the footage actually shows, and it has the same procedural confidence and institutional texture. The conspiracy at its heart keeps widening in ways that feel earned rather than arbitrary, which is exactly what Hijack did as the ground investigation expanded.
Stream on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Peacock Premium Plus
Likely Renewed82%
4. Good Girls
Good Girls is a tonal shift from Hijack, lighter and more darkly comic, but it scratches the same itch of watching people with no criminal background figure out how to survive inside a dangerous situation they stumbled into. The three leads improvise and bluff their way through each new escalation in a way that echoes Sam Nelson's approach to the hijackers. Fans who liked the human-scale resourcefulness of Hijack will find it here, even if the stakes are different.
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Cancelled0%
5. Taboo
Taboo is set in 1814 and has none of Hijack's real-time urgency, but James Delaney is recognizably the same type of protagonist: an intelligent, self-contained outsider who uses information and nerve rather than brute force to survive against a coalition of powerful enemies. The atmosphere is far darker and stranger than Hijack, and the pacing is deliberately slower, but if you liked the feeling of one person quietly outmaneuvering a room full of people who underestimate him, Taboo delivers that in abundance.
Stream on fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus
Ended0%
More on shows like Hijack
Fans of Hijack tend to want a few specific things in their next show. They want plots that move fast but do not feel cheap. They want a central character who solves problems with their brain rather than a gun. They want that feeling of information being rationed out just ahead of the audience catching up. And they generally want a British or at least British-adjacent sensibility: restrained performances, procedural texture, and consequences that feel real rather than cinematic.
The five recommendations here cover that ground from different angles. The Day of the Jackal is the closest tonal match, a cat-and-mouse thriller built around pursuit and evasion on a continental scale. The Capture is also squarely in that lane, a London-set conspiracy thriller that uses surveillance technology as its version of the locked-room device. MobLand brings the London crime energy and the fixer archetype, though it trades the clockwork plotting for something rawer and more violent. Taboo is the outlier in setting and period, but it shares Hijack's interest in a lone, resourceful outsider playing a dangerous game against forces much larger than himself. Good Girls sits furthest from the source material in tone and genre, but fans who liked watching ordinary people improvise under extreme pressure will find something recognizable in it.
None of these is a perfect substitute for Hijack because nothing is quite like a show built around a single, real-time confined crisis. But each one picks up at least one thread that made Hijack worth watching, and taken together they map out most of what made the show so hard to step away from mid-episode.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Hijack?
- The Day of the Jackal is the most popular show similar to Hijack in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Hijack still on the air?
- Of the 10 shows similar to Hijack listed here, 1 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Hijack?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.