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Sacha's Secret Mission
TV & Satellite Week
|August 31,2019
Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen plays it straight in the story of a real-life Mossad agent.
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The Spy
NEW Genre: Spy drama Available: Friday 6 September Season: 1 Episodes: 6 Runs: 60min TVSW says: High-stakes drama
After his recent turn as a gung-ho Israeli security expert in hit comedy spoof Who Is America?, Sacha Baron Cohen takes on a far more serious role this week as a Mossad agent in new Netflix drama series The Spy.
The Ali G and Borat star takes the lead as real-life agent Eli Cohen, who is considered a national hero in Israel after he went undercover in Syria in the 1960s when the two nations were on course for war.
This story is from the August 31,2019 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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