12 12 12 opened with two episodes.

Apple TV put 12 12 12 on the service on Friday, November 13, 2026. The opening drop was two episodes. After that, Apple’s schedule is one new episode each Friday through December 25. The company has said the series is eight episodes.

That split is the product. A two-episode premiere is a longer first visit. A weekly episode through Christmas is a calendar. The show can be a heist. The release is a dose.

Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan star, and both executive produce. Apple’s description sets a disgraced FBI agent against an American career criminal, and sets the raid on a bank vault under Zurich. Apple also says each episode crosses the planning, the hours of the job, and the days after. Those are the company’s frames. They are not a review, and this page is not using Apple’s poster. The photograph is the Swiss National Bank in Zurich, not Apple's poster.

Two episodes is the premiere

A premiere used to mean the first night. On a streamer it means how much of the show you are handed before a habit is supposed to form. Two episodes is a decision about attention. It is not a promise that the third Friday is better.

The last Friday is Christmas

December 25, 2026 is the last of those weekly episodes, on Apple’s release note from October 13. Ending on Christmas Day is also a scheduling choice. People are home. The app wants a reason to be opened.

Sources

• Apple TV Press, October 13, 2026 — global premiere November 13 with two episodes, then weekly through December 25; eight episodes; Mackie and Dornan
• Apple TV Press, the series page — release date November 13, 2026
• 9to5Mac, November 12, 2026 — the first two episodes were the opening drop

Photo: the Swiss National Bank in Zurich, cropped from a photograph by Fred Romero, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.