George Clooney to Direct Showtime Political Thriller Series ‘The Department’

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Showtime has given a straight-to-series order to the political thriller series “The Department,” with George Clooney attached to direct.

Clooney and Grant Heslov will also serve as executive producers via Smokehouse Pictures. The show is based on the French series “Le Bureau des Legendes.” Production is slated to start later this year.

Per the official logline, the original show 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. It originally debuted in 2015 and has aired five seasons to date. The show is a Canal+ Creation Originale series produced by Alex Berger and Rochant of TOP – The Originals Productions and Pascal Breton of Federation Studios.

 

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