‘The Agency’ Scores Season 2 Renewal at Showtime

Paramount+ With Showtime will continue its spy games with The Agency.

The spy drama starring Michael Fassbender has earned a quick renewal for a second season. The pickup at Showtime comes less than a week after the Nov. 29 series debut on Paramount+ With Showtime (its on-air Showtime premiere came two days later) and Paramount+ internationally.

Since the premiere, The Agency has racked up 5.1 million viewers worldwide, which makes it the most streamed new series debut in Showtime’s history, according to Paramount.

“The success of The Agency is proof that our new Showtime slate is poised to propel Paramount+ to its next phase of growth,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global co-CEO and president/CEO of Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios. “This achievement is a testament to the creative power of the team led by [executive producers] George Clooney, Jez Butterworth, Joe Wright and David Glasser and our incredible cast including Michael Fassbender, Richard Gere, Jodie Turner-Smith and Jeffrey Wright.”

Based on the French series Le Bureau des Legendes, The Agency follows a CIA operative (Fassbender) who is pulled out of an undercover assignment and ordered to return to the agency’s London station. When the love he left behind (Turner-Smith) reappears, their romance rekindles, pitting his personal feelings against his career and real identity.

In addition to Fassbender, Turner-Smith, Gere and Wright, the show’s regular cast includes Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, Alex Reznik, Andrew Brooke, Harriet Sansom Harris, India Fowler, Saura Lightfoot-Leon and Reza Brojerdi.

Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios produce The Agency. Writers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth executive produce with Keith Cox and Nina L. Diaz of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios; Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari of 101 Studios; Clooney and Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Pictures; Alex Berger of TOP – The Originals Productions; Ashley Stern and Pascal Breton of Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America; Fassbender; and Wright, who directed the first two episodes.