Paramount+ With Showtime® Unveils Trailer and Premiere Date for Showtime’s the Agency
Two Episode Series Premiere on Friday, November 29th on the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME® Plan
Political Thriller Stars Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith and Richard Gere and is Commissioned by Showtime Studios and Produced in Association with 101 Studios
Showtime today revealed the trailer and premiere date for its highly anticipated espionage political thriller THE AGENCY. The series will premiere Friday, November 29th with two episodes on streaming and on demand for Paramount+ subscribers with the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME® plan before its on-air debut The title will launch exclusively on Paramount+ internationally in the UK, Canada, Australia, Italy, Germany, Latin America and Brazil.
THE AGENCY features a star-studded cast, including 2x Academy Award® nominee Michael Fassbender and series regulars Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, Alex Reznik, Andrew Brooke, Harriet Sansom Harris, India Fowler, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Reza Brojerdi and Richard Gere. Hugh Bonneville is a guest star. Recurring cast includes Adam Nagaitis, Ambreen Razia, Bilal Hasna, David Harewood, Kurt Egyiawan, Ray BLK, Sabrina Wu and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.
A fresh take on the critically acclaimed hit French drama Le Bureau des Legendes, the all-new political thriller follows Martian (Michael 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 real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.
Le Bureau des Legendes centers on the daily life and missions of agents within France’s principal external security service. It focuses on the “Bureau of Legends,” responsible for training and handling deep-cover agents on long-term missions in areas with French interests. Living under false identities for years, these agents’ missions are to identify and recruit good intelligence sources. Le Bureau des Legendes was created by Eric Rochant and is a CANAL+ Creation Originale series produced by TOP – The Originals Productions and Federation Studios.
The series is co-distributed internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution and Federation Studios. THE AGENCY will also premiere on Paramount+ in Japan next year.
THE AGENCY is executive produced by Keith Cox and Nina L. Diaz (Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios); David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari (101 Studios), George Clooney and Grant Heslov (Smokehouse Pictures); Alex Berger (TOP – The Originals Productions); and Ashley Stern and Pascal Breton (Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America); and Michael Fassbender. Jez and John-Henry Butterworth are writers and executive producers; Joe Wright is executive producer and director for the first two episodes.
L-R Richard Gere as Bosko and Michael Fassbender as Martian in The Agency, episode 0, season 1, streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Luke Varley/Paramount+ 
Michael Fassbender as Martian in The Agency, episode 9, season 1, streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Nick Wall/Paramount+ 
L-R India Fowler as Poppy and Michael Fassbender as Martian in The Agency, episode 4, season 1, streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Luke Varley/Paramount+ 
L-R Jeffrey Wright as Henry and Richard Gere as Bosko in The Agency, episode 2, season 1, streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Luke Varley/Paramount+ 
L-R Michael Fassbender as Martian and Jodie Turner Smith as Samia Zahir in The Agency, episode 1, season 1, streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Luke Varley/Paramount+ 
L-R Richard Gere as Bosko and Jeffrey Wright as Henry in The Agency, season 1, streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Nadav Kander/Paramount+
