Amazon and the BBC are teaming to revive the Emmy- and BAFTA-winning thriller The Evening Supervisor, eight years after its preliminary run.
Tom Hiddleston will reprise his position within the present, which scored a two-season order from the BBC and Amazon’s Prime Video streaming platform. Collection creator David Farr can be set to return as author. Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, who starred within the first season, will even be govt producers together with
The Ink Manufacturing facility (The Little Drummer Woman, The Pigeon Tunnel) is producing The Evening Supervisor in affiliation with Character 7, Demarest Movies and 127 Wall. The collection is a co-production with Spain’s Nostromo Footage. Georgi Banks-Davies (I Hate Suzie, Paper Ladies) will direct all six episodes of season two.
“The primary collection of The Evening Supervisor was one of the vital creatively fulfilling initiatives I’ve ever labored on,” Hiddleston mentioned in an announcement. “The depth, vary and complexity of Jonathan Pine was, and stays, an exhilarating prospect. I’m so wanting ahead to reuniting with [The Ink Factory’s] Simon and Stephen Cornwell, David Farr and [EP] Stephen Garrett, and to working with Georgi Banks-Davies to inform the following chapter of our story. I can’t wait.”
The Evening Supervisor first aired on the BBC within the U.Okay. and AMC in the US and adopted Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston), a former British soldier and evening supervisor of a lodge in Cairo who’s recruited to assist take down an arms vendor (Laurie). The primary season additionally starred Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander and Elizabeth Debicki. It was nominated for 12 Emmys and gained two (together with one for director Susanne Bier) and in addition gained three BAFTA TV awards.
“John le Carré’s work has lengthy been an inspiration to me and dealing intently with him on season one was an honour and a pleasure. I didn’t tread frivolously into extending The Evening Supervisor past the unique guide, however an thought got here to me a few years in the past which felt truthful to that distinctive world of darkish corners and shady identities,” mentioned Farr. “Nobody marries the suspense of espionage with a deep exploration of the human soul fairly like le Carré. I hope that not directly we are able to pay homage to his uneasy genius on this new exploration. I’m thrilled to be working once more with Tom Hiddleston, Stephen Garrett and The Ink Manufacturing facility crew, and to be welcoming the good director Georgi Banks-Davies into our ranks.”
The collection will air on BBC One and iPlayer within the U.Okay. and Prime Video in the remainder of the world. Fifth Season, which negotiated the deal, is dealing with worldwide distribution
Farr, Hiddleston, Laurie, Simon and Stephen Cornwell, Garrett and Banks-Davies govt produce The Evening Supervisor with Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang for 127 Wall; Michele Wolkoff and Tessa Inkelaar for The Ink Manufacturing facility; Adrián Guerra for Nostromo Footage; William D. Johnson for Demarest Movies; and Nick Cornwell, Susanne Bier, Fifth Season’s Chris Rice and the BBC’s Gaynor Holmes.
Hiddleston is repped by Hamilton Hodell within the U.Okay., UTA, Johnson Shapiro and Prosper PR. Farr is repped by UTA within the states and Curtis Brown Group Ltd. within the U.Okay. The property of John le Carré is repped by Curtis Brown Group Ltd. Banks-Davies is repped by LARK, Impartial Expertise Group and CAA.