{"id":532060,"date":"2026-03-10T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:36:08","slug":"riz-ahmed-is-a-struggling-actor-in-new-trailer-for-bait-comedy-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532060\/","title":{"rendered":"Riz Ahmed Is a Struggling Actor in New Trailer for BAIT Comedy Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            \ud83c\udfad NEW! TV Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-subtitle\" style=\"color: #cccccc; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; line-height: 1.5; font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;\">\n            Get all the top news &amp; discounts for TV &amp; beyond.\n        <\/p>\n<p>]]><\/p>\n<p>            ]]><br \/>\n            <\/p>\n<p>Prime Video released the official trailer for the comedy series\u00a0Bait,\u00a0created by and\u00a0starring\u00a0Academy Award and Emmy Award winner\u00a0Riz Ahmed. All six episodes will be available on March 25, 2026 on Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>Bait\u00a0stars Ahmed as Shah Latif, a struggling actor, whose last chance to hit it big comes in the form of an audition of a lifetime. The series follows him over the course of four <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/bwwtv\/tvshows\/wild-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WILD<\/a> days as his life spirals out of control and his family, ex-lover and the entire world weigh in on whether he is the right man for the job.<\/p>\n<p>The series also\u00a0stars\u00a0Guz Khan as \u201cZulfi,\u201d Sheeba Chaddha as \u201cTahira,\u201d Sajid Hasan as \u201cParvez,\u201d Aasiya Shah as \u2018Q,\u2019 Weruche Opia as \u201cFelicia,\u201d and Ritu Arya as \u201cYasmin.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bait\u00a0is executive produced by Ahmed and Allie Moore for Left Handed, with Jake Fuller on behalf of Jax Media. Ben Karlin executive produces and serves as showrunner alongside Ahmed, who also serves as a writer. The series is produced by Jax Media and Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed is also playing the title character in\u00a0Hamlet, a new reimagining of the Shakespeare tragedy, arriving\u00a0in U.S.\u00a0theaters\u00a0on April 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>]]><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t ]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfad NEW! TV Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news &amp; discounts for TV &amp; beyond. ]]&gt; ]]&gt;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-532060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}