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A New Golden Age of Espionage TV Shows
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 […]
The Day of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 fiction debut has been adapted before, memorably for film in 1973 with Edward Fox in the titular role as a slippery assassin assigned to kill the French President Charles De Gaulle. The cast is among the most stacked this year led by Michael Fassbender with Jodie Turner-Smith, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Gere, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro and Hugh Bonneville. While foreign remakes can be a risky prospect the fact this series comes sandwiched between The Day of The Jackal and Netflix’s Black Doves, really does make this one of the most loaded periods of major espionage on TV with Slow Horses only just finishing another highly successful run.
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