The Secret Agent (miniseries)
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| Genre |
Drama Espionage |
| Based on |
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad |
| Written by | Tony Marchant |
| Screenplay by | Tony Marchant |
| Directed by | Charles McDougall |
| Starring | |
| Composer(s) | Stuart Earl |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
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| Producer(s) | Rob Bullock |
| Cinematography | Michael Snyman |
| Running time | 58 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC |
| Distributor | World Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 17 July – 31 July 2016 |
| External links | |
| www |
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The Secret Agent is a three-part British espionage television drama serial based on the 1907 novel The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. The show stars Toby Jones, Vicky McClure, Stephen Graham and Ian Hart. The three-part series began airing on BBC One on 17 July 2016. It is the fourth BBC adpatation of the novel, having been previously made in 1967, 1972, and 1992.
In 2014, the BBC ordered a three-part television series based on the novel. It was filmed around the United Kingdom from October–December 2015, with Toby Jones, Vicky McClure and Stephen Graham in leading roles. The series was written by Tony Marchant, directed by Charles McDougall and produced by Priscilla Parish.
RLJ Entertainment-owned Acorn will distribute The Secret Agent in the United States.
Reviewing the first episode for The Guardian, Stephen Moss began by noting the bravery of adapting a book "which film critic Roger Ebert called 'perhaps the least filmable novel (Conrad) ever wrote'". Moss observed that, "In the book, the first secretary makes a brilliant, witty, scathing case for attacking science – indeed, attacking time itself, since Greenwich marks the prime meridian – but on TV we have to be shown it. The mystery, the enigma, the idea that an attack on the very idea of time is all that will shock the English middle class is lost. That, in essence, is the problem here: all the workings must be shown. Conrad’s great, strange, tonally complex novel is reduced to a psychological thriller." He added, "You would never know from watching it that The Secret Agent is in some respects a funny book, certainly a deeply ironic one. Conrad based Verloc's attempt to bomb the observatory on a real incident in which a half-baked anarchist blew himself up, and his description of it in a later preface to the novel should be the starting point for any treatment. He called the ill-fated terrorist attack 'a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought'".
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