Overview
- Production began Monday on the eight-part adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novels for BBC in the U.K. and MGM+ in the U.S.
- Dan Stevens joins as Bill Haydon, with Agnes O’Casey as Liz Gold and Felix Kammerer as Stasi enforcer Hans-Dieter Mundt added to the ensemble.
- Matthew Macfadyen leads as George Smiley, alongside Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas, Daniel Brühl as Josef Fiedler, and Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu as Doris Quinz.
- The series is showrun and written by Stephen Cornwell and Clarisa Ingram, with Michael Lennox as lead director and executive producer for The Ink Factory with Amusement Park Film, 127 Wall Productions, and Paramount Television Studios.
- It will debut on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the U.K. and on MGM+ in the United States, with a premiere date still to be announced.