BBC America has ordered a new thriller about an assassin from Fleabag star and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

The eight-episode series is based on the novellas by Luke Jennings.

Killing Eve is described as a “thriller revolving around a psychopathic assassin and the woman charged with hunting her down.”

BBC America president Sarah Barnett commented: “Killing Eve is a brilliantly fresh take on the cat and mouse thriller from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, a major new talent in television. Underneath the deceptively simple and entertaining surface is a subversive, funny, obsessive relationship between two women, that plays out across some of the most and least glamorous locations imaginable.”

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Waller-Bridge will be showrunner and executive producer on Killing Eve, which will premiere on BBC America in 2018. It has not yet been announced if she will also star in the series.

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