TVLine Items: Fassbender’s Agency Trailer, Elsbeth Guest Stars and More
Michael Fassbender is feeling the toll of the spy game in the first trailer for The Agency, premiering Friday, Nov. 29 with two episodes on Paramount+ With SHOWTIME before making its linear debut on the premium cabler.
An adaptation of the hit French drama Le Bureau des Légendes, the political thriller “follows Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station,” reads the official description. “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.”
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The series-regular cast also includes Richard Gere, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, Alex Reznik, Andrew Brooke, Harriet Sansom Harris, India Fowler, Saura Lightfoot-Leon and Reza Brojerdi.
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* Elsbeth Season 2 has tapped Laurie Metcalf (The Conners) and Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) to guest-star in Episode 8 and 9, respectively, our sister site Variety reports. Metcalf will play the lead of a police procedural who becomes a suspect in the showrunner’s murder, while McCormack will portray the founder of an upscale holistic wellness retreat who “takes matters into his own hands” after his wellness empire is threatened.
* The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills will return with a supersized premiere on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 8/7c on Bravo.
* Mika Abdalla (The Flash) will recur opposite Noah Wyle in Max’s upcoming medical drama The Pitt in an undisclosed role, per Variety.
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