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- CreatorAaron SorkinStarsMartin SheenRob LoweAllison JanneyInside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.
- StarsAlec GuinnessMichael JaystonAnthony BateIn the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
- CreatorRobert CochranJoel SurnowStarsKiefer SutherlandMary Lynn RajskubCarlos BernardCounter Terrorism Agent Jack Bauer races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.
- CreatorAlex GansaHoward GordonStarsClaire DanesMandy PatinkinDamian LewisA bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
- CreatorJ.J. AbramsStarsJennifer GarnerRon RifkinCarl LumblySydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college, trained for espionage and self-defense.
- CreatorAaron SorkinStarsJeff DanielsEmily MortimerJohn Gallagher Jr.A newsroom undergoes some changes in its workings and morals as a new team is brought in, bringing unexpected results for its existing news anchor.
- CreatorOlen SteinhauerStarsLeland OrserMichelle ForbesMina TanderFollows a CIA team in Berlin and their clandestine activities.
- StarsGary OldmanJack LowdenKristin Scott ThomasFollows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.
- CreatorCraig SilversteinStarsMaggie QShane WestLyndsy FonsecaA rogue assassin returns to take down the secret organization that trained her.
- CreatorShonda RhimesStarsKerry WashingtonDarby StanchfieldKatie LowesA former White House Communications Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her clients are not the only ones with secrets.
- StarsJodie WhittakerPaul RhysHarriet WalterCIA counter-intelligence officer Sandy Grimes works to save Soviet intelligence officers from being exposed by a mole inside her organization.
- CreatorTodd KatzbergKen RobinsonJason SmilovicStarsMax IronsKristen HagerBob BalabanA brilliant, young, idealistic CIA analyst finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy that kills everyone else at his office. Can he, with no field experience, stay alive long enough to get to the bottom of it?
- CreatorJason HorwitchStarsJames Badge DaleJessica Ann CollinsLauren HodgesWill Travers is an analyst at a New York City-based federal intelligence agency who is thrown into a story where nothing is as it appears to be.
- CreatorCarlton CuseGraham RolandStarsJohn KrasinskiWendell PierceMichael KellyUp-and-coming CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, is thrust into dangerous field assignments.
- CreatorDavid FarrStarsTom HiddlestonHugh LaurieElizabeth DebickiThe night manager of a Cairo hotel is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's inner circle.
- CreatorTaylor SheridanStarsZoe SaldanaLaysla De OliveiraDave AnnableCIA operative Joe attempts to balance her personal and professional lives as the tip of the spear in the agency's war on terror.
- CreatorMatt NixStarsJeffrey DonovanGabrielle AnwarBruce CampbellA spy recently disavowed by the U.S. government uses his special ops training to help others in trouble.
- StarsMaggie GyllenhaalStephen ReaLubna AzabalCenters on Nessa Stein, a woman who inherits her father's arms business and finds herself in an international maelstrom as she continues to promote the reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
- CreatorMatthew ParkhillSimon MaxwellStarsJoe DempsieKarima McAdamsAnastasia GriffithWhat happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may mean he has no life to go back to.
- StarsChris PrattConstance WuTaylor KitschA former Navy SEAL officer investigates why his entire platoon was ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission.
- CreatorDarren DaleMiranda DearRachel GriffithsStarsDeborah MailmanRachel GriffithsRob CollinsAn Indigenous woman in Australia is thrust into the political limelight.
- CreatorAlexi HawleyStarsNoah CentineoFivel StewartAarti MannFollows a lawyer at the CIA who gets entangled in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency.
- StarsAnna TorvMarcus GrahamJustin SmithBeneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own.
- StarsAlec GuinnessEileen AtkinsBill PatersonThe murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement. His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster known only as "Karla". This will be their final dance.
- StarsGabriel BassoLuciane BuchananFola Evans-AkingbolaLow-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland works in the basement of the White House manning a phone that never rings - until the night it does, propelling him into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the Oval Office.