Spooks News

Earlier this year, the BBC's new head of drama hinted that they intended to move away from "bonnet dramas" a ' adaptations of literary classics, such as Dickens or Austen a ' and towards a new kind of period drama, focusing on the more recent past.

It's been 20 years since Delia Smith's last Christmas special and she tells TV Choice that she hopes to inspire a new generation with her latest offering.

A REFERENCE to popular BBC television programme "Spooks" by Foyle MLA Mark Durkan during a debate on a department of justice bill at the Stormont Assembly saw the SDLP leader come under attack from unionist and Alliance representatives.

Still reeling from the death of Jo last week? Well pull yourself together! There's no time for sentiment here.

Rupert Penry-Jones is grateful to be TV's most famous spy, and with a play set to open, he isn't worried about being typecast TERI PENGILLEY The spy who lucked out: Rupert Penry-Jones is soon to star in The Priory on stage enlarge Rupert Penry-Jones, alias Adam Carter, the unflappable spy from Spooks, alias Richard Hannay, the unflappable and ...

BBC1's spy drama Spooks returned for its eighth series with 6 million viewers, beating ITV1's coverage of Liverpool's 1-1 draw in the Uefa Champions League last night, Wednesday 4 November.

A kidnapping, an emotional reunion - and more uranium. Spooks is back! Spoiler alert : This weekly blog is for those who have been watching Spooks series eight.

The uncanny premonitions of its writers remain the key to the success of the BBC's MI5 series Spooks, says James Rampton BBC Terrorist bombs in London: A two-parter in 2005 about a terrorist bomb in a train station was filmed just before 7/7 happened.

TALL, dark and handsome, Richard Armitage is a leading man in demand. He's just about to return to TV screens as MI5 agent Lucas North in spy drama Spooks, a role he filmed as soon as he breathed his last as arch villain Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood.

Cattrall will star alongside Matthew MacFadyen in Richard Eyre's revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives , which runs at the Vaudeville Theatre for a limited ten week season - from March 3 to May 1, 2010.

Now in their fourth year, the Electric Proms have grown into a fine fixture of the musical calendar, centred on Camden, north London, and its handsomely renovated Roundhouse theatre.

Sir Harry , Ros and Lucas Earlier this month, in a radio interview on the subject of Christopher Andrew's new history of MI5, Defence of the Realm , Dame Eliza Manningham Buller, head of the domestic security service from 2002 to 2007, was asked about the long-running BBC TV serial Spooks , in which the main characters are MI5 spies.

Simon Amstell has been busy writing his own sitcom based around his family's reaction to his fame.

Echoes of Reggie and Ronnie Kray and their 'gangster brutality' the focus for second series of popular ITV drama Whitechapel Whitechapel: starring Phil Davis, Rupert Penry Jones and Steve Pemberton.

E1 Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Spooks Season 7 on 12th October 2009 priced at 39.99 RRP.

THE BBC gave away Wimbledon tickets worth hundreds of pounds each to stars and TV hosts.

Metropolitan Police officers were called to investigate a report of an oil drum with big wires attached to it near Deptford station in south east London.

FIRE up the Audi Quattro and buckle up for a nail-biting journey as the complete second series of award-winning, Ashes To Ashes arrives on DVD on July 13, 2009, from E1 Entertainment.

The fame of the 1970 film of The Railway Children persists in the most surprising of quarters.

Christian Slater has signed on to The Forgotten , a new ABC crime drama from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, TVGuide.com has learned.