In the wake of the success of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, Chris Connor looks forward to a new golden age of TV spy shows… Espionage and TV have a long and often hugely successful history; if we look at acclaimed adaptations of John Le Carre’s work including The Night Manager and Alec Guinness-led adaptations of […]
Michael Fassbender to lead George Clooney’s US remake The Agency
X-Men and Alien: Covenant star Michael Fassbender has been chosen to lead George Clooney’s Paramount series The Agency, a remake of the French political drama The Bureau. The Agency follows “Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his […]
George Clooney to direct espionage series The Department for Showtime
Showtime is teaming with George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures for a U.S. TV adaptation of the French political thriller series The Bureau, which Clooney will direct for the network. Titled The Department, the project – which has received a straight-to-series order from Showtime – will revolve around a security agency tasked with recruiting, […]
