TV Show · Comedy · Drama

From Oscar and Emmy winner Riz Ahmed comes Bait, a comedy about Shah Latif, a struggling actor. His last chance to hit it big comes in the form of an audition of a lifetime. We follow him over the course of four wild 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.

2026 · 25m
Director Bassam Tariq

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Bait

Comedy

From Oscar and Emmy winner Riz Ahmed comes Bait, a comedy about Shah Latif, a struggling actor. His last chance to hit it big comes in the form of an audition of a lifetime. We follow him over the course of four wild 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.

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Studio
Amazon Studios
Released
2026

Languages

Subtitles

English (United Kingdom) (SDH), Arabic (world) , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech (Czechia) , Danish (Denmark) , Dutch (Netherlands) , Finnish (Finland) , French (Canada) , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek (Greece) , Hebrew (Israel) , Hindi (India) , Hungarian (Hungary) , Indonesian (Indonesia) , Italian (Italy) , Japanese (Japan) , Korean (South Korea) , Malay (Malaysia) , Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) , Polish (Poland) , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Romanian (Romania) , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish (Sweden) , Thai (Thailand) , Turkish (Türkiye)

Accessibility

Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.