TNT has unveiled the trailer and premiere date for its limited series High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam, starring Joel Kinnaman as the CIA analyst who first interrogated Saddam Hussein after his capture in December 2003. The first two episodes premiere Sunday, 13 September at 9 p.m. ET/PT on TNT. Deadline

Episode three follows the next night — Monday, 14 September at 9 p.m. ET/PT — with new episodes continuing on subsequent Sundays and Mondays. The finale is set for Sunday, 4 October. Deadline

The series is inspired by Debriefing the President, a memoir by John Nixon, the first CIA officer to question Hussein following his December 2003 capture. Kinnaman plays Nixon. Waleed Zuaiter plays Hussein. Deadline

The cast also includes Lena Góra, Rebecca Night, Tom Berenger, Paul Ryan, Christopher McDonald, Dar Salim, Matt Barr, Ewan Miller and Talia Balsam. Deadline

Daniel Stiepleman and Jonathan Wakeham created the series. Leslie Greif, Graham Sack, Stiepleman and Wakeham share writing credits. Executive producers include Alexander Rodnyansky, Jason Sarlanis, Sam Linsky, Stuart Manashil, Michael Kupisk, Tamer Mortada and Greif. Deadline

Production wrapped after a shoot in Egypt, according to a Deadline report from April 2026 — at which point no premiere date had been confirmed. Warner Bros. Discovery had teased the project at its May 2025 press event under the working title High Value Target (wt), flagging it for ID and HBO Max in 2026, and at its May 2026 upfront slotted it for a Fall 2026 arrival on TNT. Deadline · Warner Bros. Discovery press release, May 2025 · Warner Bros. Discovery press release, May 2026

For viewers, this fills in the picture: a project tracked since spring 2025 as a working-title commission now has a trailer, a cast, a schedule and a firm night of the week. The Sunday-Monday cadence — two nights, back to back — is a scheduling pattern TNT has used before to give a limited series momentum across its opening week before settling into a weekly rhythm.