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  The Guardian

  A Spy Among Friends review – don’t take your eyes off this star-packed espionage thriller

  Guy Pearce is a charismatic traitor, Damian Lewis is an enigma and Anna Maxwell Martin carries along a fabulous drama that’s full of excitement – if a tad stuffy

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  Evening Standard

  What to watch on ITVX, from A Spy Among Friends to Litvinenko to Riches

  Move over ITV Hub

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  Yahoo Celebrity UK

  A Spy Among Friends director praises Guy Pearce's 'mammoth performance'

  Director Nick Murphy says Guy Pearce commits to every role with the same intensity, be it Neighbours or A Spy Among Friends.

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  Sky News

  Backstage with... Damian Lewis and the cast of new ITVX thriller A Spy Among Friends

  Why Emmy and Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis, of course, who leads the cast of the new thriller A Spy Among Friends, which has debuted on ITVX this week. The show, written by former Scots Guard Alex Cary, is based on the book of the same name, and sees Lewis play Nicholas Elliot, an MI5 agent in the 1960s, who learns his friend and colleague Kim Philby (played by Guy Pearce) has defected to the KGB.

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  Herald Scotland

  Damian Lewis on being devoted, loyal and blinkered in his latest role

  A Spy Among Friends' Damian Lewis and Anna Maxwell Martin tell Rachael Davis about the ITVX series' true story of espionage and betrayal.

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  The Telegraph

  Guy Pearce: ‘Today’s old-boy network would still protect Kim Philby’

  Friendship, according to the author Ben Macintyre, is the reason why Harold “Kim” Philby remains “the greatest double agent of all time”. The “third man” of the notorious set of Communist spies who met at Cambridge University in the 1930s exploited his closest friends to gift British and American secrets to Moscow, leading to the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, over 30 years as a traitor working for the KGB.

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  Yahoo Celebrity UK

  BBC shares Christmas TV highlights from Mrs Brown's Boys to Motherland

  There are some festive gems lined up at the BBC.

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  The Telegraph

  Kim Philby drama invents female officer to expose ‘white, upper class dinosaurs’ who missed double agent

  Kim Philby’s career as a double agent was a betrayal not just of his country, but of the old boys’ network at MI6.

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  The Guardian

  Anna Maxwell Martin: ‘I never get offered drugs. People think I’m a child’

  As she prepares to play an MI5 interrogator in a thrilling new cold war drama, the Bafta winner talks about coping with death, lacking confidence – and how she’s always wanted to be Kate Winslet

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  Damian Lewis and Anna Maxwell Martin to star in new drama - and it looks seriously good

  ITV has released the first trailer for their upcoming series A Spy Among Friends - and it looks amazing. Starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce and Anna Maxwell-Martin, the true story looks at the friendship of Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philly. MORE: The English: everything to know about Emily Blunt's new drama The official synopsis reads: "Based on the New York Times best-selling book written by Ben Macintyre, the six-episode series dramatises the true story of Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby, two Br

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