EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Minnie Driver as a hostage negotiator in Paramount+‘s tense heist thriller The Day.
We’ve got a batch of images for the eight-part British drama, which is based on 2018 Belgian series De Dag and alos stars the likes of Luca Pasqualino and Louisa Harland.
The Day unfolds across a single day, as police stumble across a bank robbery mid-heist, and the criminals barricade themselves inside. A terrifying siege begins with Driver’s Sylvia ‘Vox’ Voxley battles time and mounting pressure to save the hostages.
The series opens from the police perspective, but later the story rewinds and is told through the eyes of the robbers and and their hostages inside the bank. Each episode shifts the perspective, which every switch reframing the truth ahead of the finale, where the full picture finally emerges.
Co-produced and developed by Dynamic Television and Clapperboard Studios, The Day was written by Ben Harris and Jesse O’Mahoney. Jonas Geirnaert and Julie Mahieu created the original Belgian show.
Clapperboard’s Mike Benson and Andy Morgan are exec producing alongside Dynamic’s Daniel March and Tamryn Reinecke. Jake Rollins serves as producer. Andy Tohill and Ryan Tohill will co-direct.
Sebastian Cardwell, who is Paramount+’s Head of Scripted and Deputy Chief Content Officer, UK, and Paul Testar, Commissioning Editor for Paramount+ UK and Ireland, ordered the show. Cardwell is exit to Paramount and UK network 5 at the end of 2026 after 16 years, while Deadline recently revealed his boss, Ben Frow, is also leaving the Skydance-owned channel.
The Day premieres on Paramount+ across all territories in which the streamer operates except Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
