Spooks

The choice of watchable terrestrial telly at 9pm on a Wednesday night is minimal to say the least. Having already seen all the repeats of CSI and not being highbrow enough to watch historical documentaries we plumped for Spooks on BBC1. It's a programme I watched religiously throughout the first series when it was rapid and pacey and dare I say exciting but then it tailed off becoming rather repetitive and mundane in a formulaic way. The show features a crack team of super secret MI5 agents who work to save the world from equally top secret baddies who all work for organisations known only by acronyms. The good guys on the side of the Brits are head honcho ...  Read the complete review

Spooks has been going for quite a few series now on BBC and started again last night. The show centres around a team of MI5 agents who each week have to save the UK from various terriost plots, stolen documents etc. the list goes on and on. Since its beginning spooks have not been afraid to show the darker side of life, thinking back to the first every episode where one the characters had her face pushed into a deep fat fryer, not very pleasant and hopefully not based on anything real life. Sometimes when you watch these shows you think some of the things that happen are a bit out there but they do keep you glued to your seats. And according to ...  Read the complete review

This is the great British T.V show that is coming back on tonight at 9 p.m on BBC1 this is series 8 of the show. The show follows a department in MI5 that is run by Harry Pearce played by Peter Firth who is currently missing as we saw him bundled into a car at the end of the last series. You will love this if you are into thrillers and anything to do with espionage. Each story line in the series is based on up to date scenarios of current threats to the U.K such as bio terrorisum, sleeper cells and spy plots that could be real for all we know. Ros Myers played by Hermione Norris (from cold feet) is a cold spy drafted in when her Father ...  Read the complete review

Uncompromising dialogue, intelligent relationships, fast paced action and deliberate plot twists are just some of the words that spring to mind when I think of Spooks. First and foremost this is a drama, yet it has romance, action, thriller and certain aspects of science fiction. This is one of the few shows that I have ever seen that has all of the above and delivers on every single aspect. The charaters are hard and gritty, the suspence is killing sometimes, but every episode is superb in the acting and direction. You are attracted instantly to the plot lines (which change almost as soon as you think you have it figured out) and the acting is top ...  Read the complete review

I have followed this program for the last seven years. it is gripping, inventive and action packed. It follows a group of mi5 agents as they fight for queen and country. The stories are up to date and often find the episode use current crisis in the news. The series has had many central characters throughout the series, some meet a grisly end and some go of and become rouge spies, the characters are never safe and it makes this series on the edge of your seat viewing. The production values a big and the series never faulters in its look. Constantly fast moving and making the issues around us relevent. The main character and glue to the team is harry pearce. A hard ...  Read the complete review