‘The Agency’ Changes Name Again, Announces Release Date
Paramount+ will most likely do more damage to 'The Agency' than its spy thriller villains with Season 2.
We should feel bad for the people who work at Paramount and its various subsidiaries. Most did not sign up to work for a network that would willingly become State TV, and the intense zig-zagging in direction over the last five years has almost certainly been a behind-the-scenes nightmare. From commissioning (and then abruptly canceling) an entire slate of British programming, the startlingly short-lived successes of Watson and MobLand, and the wanton destruction of long-time networks like Showtime, the entire experience has been whiplash to witness.
The Agency is looking like yet another victim of the streaming service’s inability to run a coherent network. One of the few bright spots from 2025 was the surprise hit The Agency, which, despite being about as dull as CSI, NCIS, and CIA, managed to steadily build an audience over its nine-week run on the back of big-name stars and a long enough weekly release schedule for word of mouth to work its magic. Paramount+ even seemed eager to capitalize on the success by trying to bring it more in line with its American procedural hits, appending the series’ name to The Agency: Central Intelligence for Season 2.
The new name was short-lived, as was the weekly release schedule. Paramount+ has now released the first images and trailer for “The Agency Season 2” (no mention of “Central Intelligence” anywhere in the press release) with a binge-release date on a random Sunday night in late June, when people are least likely to notice it.
Here’s the Season 2 synopsis:
The Agency follows Martian, a CIA agent living undercover in his own life. Samia, his lover, is a political prisoner in Sudan, and he will do anything to try to save her, even past the point of treachery. The only way out is deeper in. A knife-edge Martian must walk if he is to save love, life, and his mission.
Season 2 will bring back Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave), Jodie Turner-Smith (Anne Boleyn), Jeffrey Wright (Wake Up Dead Man), Richard Gere (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Dominic West (The Crown), Ambreen Razia (Starstruck), and John Magaro (The Umbrella Academy).
Season 1 supporting cast returnees include Harriet Sansom Harris (Atlantic Crossing), India Fowler (The Nevers), Andrew Brooke (Criminal Record), Saura Lightfoot-Leon (Hoard), Reza Brojerdi (SOKO Wismar), and Alex Reznik (Babylon).
Newcomers include Raza Jaffrey (The Serpent Queen), Christian Ochoa Lavernia (The Diplomat), Tessa Ferrer (Catch-22), Keanush Tafreshi (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story), Medalion Rahimi (Hacks), and Clayne Crawford (Rectify).
Richard Gere, Dominic West, Jeffrey Wright, Katherine Waterson, and Michael Fassbender in 'The Agency' Season 2 (Sophie Mutevelian/Paramount+)
Showrunners Jez & John-Henry Butterworth (Edge of Tomorrow) once again pen all episodes of Season 2, inspired by Eric Rochant’s The Bureau (Le Bureau des Légendes); with directors Neil Burger (Inheritance) and Grant Heslov (Catch-22) helming episodes. The Butterworths, Wright, and Fassbender continue to executive producers along with George Clooney & Grant Heslov via their Smokehouse Pictures; Keith Cox & Nina L. Diaz of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios; David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin & Bob Yari of 101 Studios; Alex Berger for TOP-The Originals Productions; and Ashley Stern & Pascal Breton for Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America.
All 10 episodes of The Agency Season 2 will debut as a binge on Sunday, June 21, 2026, on Paramount+. Both Season 1 and all five seasons of the French-language original are available to stream on Paramount+.
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