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BreAnna Bell Fans of Matthew Quirk’s novel “The Night Agent” might be surprised to see a few creative changes in Shawn Ryan’s series adaptation on Netflix. For instance, not only is there the addition of several new players — including Eve Harlow, who portrays Ellen, an opposing cutthroat spy — but Ryan, who serves as showrunner and executive producer, said Rose (Lucianne Buchanan) and Peter’s (Gabriel Basso) love story will be deeply explored throughout the political thriller’s 10 episodes. The series follows FBI agent Peter Sutherland, who while working in the basement of the White House monitoring an emergency line that rarely rings, answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole in America’s executive mansion.

An updated trailer for the upcoming thriller series “The Night Agent,” starring Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan, has been made available on Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: Covert Affairs alumna Kari Matchett is set for a heavily recurring role in Netflix’s political conspiracy thriller series The Night Agent, based on Matthew McQuirk’s bestseller. Created by Shawn Ryan, based on the novel, The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office. Matchett will portray the President. Matchett starred for five seasons on USA Network’s Covert Affairs. Her most recent TV credits include recurring roles on A Million Little Things, Supergirl and Charmed. She’s repped by The Characters Talent Agency and Alchemy Entertainment.

Netflix has set a March 23 premiere date for action thriller The Night Agent and released a slew of first-look images. See them below and watch a teaser above.

Rick Tuber, a TV and film editor who won an Emmy and an ACE Eddie Award for his work on NBC’s classic medical drama ER, died January 7 of a heart attack at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 69.

S.W.A.T is coming back for a sixth season.

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Chau (Downsizing, Watchmen), DB Woodside (Lucifer, 24), Fola Evans-Akingbola (UK’s Call My Agent, Black Mirror), Eve Harlow (NeXT, The 100), Phoenix Raei (Clickbait, Stateless), Enrique Murciano (Bloodline, Father of the Bride 2) and Sarah Desjardins (Yellowjackets, Riverdale), have been cast as series regulars opposite leads Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan in The Night Agent, Netflix’s political conspiracy thriller series created by Shawn Ryan based on author Matthew Quirk’s 2019 New York Times bestseller.

Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy) and Luciane Buchanan (The New Legends of Monkey) are set as the leads in The Night Agent, Netflix’s political conspiracy thriller series created by Shawn Ryan based on author Matthew Quirk’s 2019 New York Times bestseller.

TV and film screenwriter and producer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas has used his time in the business entertaining audiences while bridging gaps between disparate groups. As the co-creator and former showrunner for the reboot of the ongoing CBS police drama S.W.A.T., Aaron provides a new perspective on working as a Black showrunner with a series focused on the lives of the police. Developed by Aaron Rahsaan Thomas and Shawn Ryan, S.W.A.T.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla New York Times bestselling political conspiracy thriller “The Night Agent” will get the silver screen treatment by Netflix. The streamer has greenlit the series for a book-to-TV adaptation, tapping creator Shawn Ryan (“The Shield,” “S.W.A.T.”) to executive produce.

EXCLUSIVE: A pandemic read has led to a series order at Netflix. The streamer has greenlighted The Night Agent, a political conspiracy thriller series created by Shawn Ryan based on author Matthew Quirk’s 2019 New York Times bestseller. Seth Gordon is set to direct the first episode of the series, which comes from Sony Pictures Television Studios where Ryan and Gordon are under overall deals.

Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV has unveiled a sizeable development slate with projects from the likes of The Good Place creator Mike Schur, All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and CSI: New York star Melina Kanakaredes.

Emmy-winning producer and writer Alison Cross has signed with Buchwald for representation.

There is no shortage of TV series coming our way in 2021 and beyond. From returning favorites and brand-new shows, the various streaming services and networks will have something new to watch nearly every day from here until the end of time.

Lords of Dogtown is headed to television. IMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, is developing a TV series adaptation of the 2005 Sony movie. The project hails from Shawn Ryan’s MiddKid Productions and Sony Pictures TV where the company is based, with the movie’s director Catherine Hardwick executive producing.

Shawn Ryan is adapting for television the 2020 novel The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk. The Shield creator revealed the project last night as part of a series of tweets about some the favorite books he read in 2020.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Showtime has put in development La Bravura, a one-hour psychological thriller dramedy from veteran comedy showrunner Tad Quill (A Moody Christmas), S.W.A.T.

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By David Robb

We've got great news for all those Terriers fans who've been missing the ability to stream the deliciously dark comedy series — or, perhaps more importantly, without a place to send those who haven't seen it to check it out as a must-watch recommendation. The beloved one-season wonder that's often hailed a series we lost before its time is now available to stream again — this time on Hulu — following its disappearance from Netflix in December 2017.