{"id":24597,"date":"2026-03-30T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=24597"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:21:35","slug":"michael-fassbender-returns-to-the-small-screen-as-cia-spy-martian-in-tightly-wound-thriller-the-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2026\/03\/30\/michael-fassbender-returns-to-the-small-screen-as-cia-spy-martian-in-tightly-wound-thriller-the-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Fassbender Returns to the Small Screen as CIA Spy \u2018Martian\u2019 in Tightly Wound Thriller, The Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two-time Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender and silver screen legend Richard Gere headline George Clooney-executive produced spy drama The Agency,<\/em> coming to M-Net from 20 April at 9pm. CIA officer \u2018Martian\u2019 (Fassbender) is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. A past love unexpectedly reappears, putting his mission and his real identity against his heart, hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the critically-acclaimed French series Le Bureau des L\u00e9gendes<\/em> \u2013 hailed as one of the greatest spy TV series of all time by global critics, The Agency<\/em> is adapted by brothers Jez (MobLand<\/em>) and John-Henry Butterworth (Edge of Tom<\/em>orrow). The series marks Fasssbender\u2019s return to the small screen for the first time since 2008\u2019s The Devil\u2019s Mistress<\/em> and bears more than a passing resemblance to another American adaptation of an international spy series, Claire Danes\u2019 Emmy-winning Homeland<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series stars several other heavy hitters, including Jeffrey Wright, fresh from an Oscar nomination for American Fiction<\/em>, Jodie Turner-Smith (The Acolyte<\/em>) and Katherine Waterstone (Fantastic Beasts<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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