(Spoiler alert: Do not read further if you have yet to watch the final episode)
“HARRY Pearce…”
The poignant last ever episode of Spooks has just finished.
There will be no more.
Nicola Walker summed up my feelings in an interview this week when she said:
“The storyline for this last series is the right ending for the show.
“I don’t know if it’s going to please everybody but it’s a very clever and grown up end point.” Continue reading
Daniel Mays as Cass
There are secrets and lies to be uncovered, along with things the human race has never encountered before.
Just who are the outcasts? What lies beyond the boundaries of frontier town Forthaven? And what exactly happened back on Earth after the Shanghai Uprising? Continue reading
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Jack Holt (Ashley Walters) and Stella Isen (Hermione Norris)
The first media screening of Outcasts in London last night.
We saw episode one of BBC1’s new eight-part series – due on screen next month – plus a long press showreel of what follows.
Outcasts stars Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Amy Manson, Ashley Walters, Michael Legge and Eric Mabius.
A group of pioneering humans has created a new home in the settlement of Forthaven on the planet Carpathia. Continue reading
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Hermione Norris (Stella) and Ashley Walters (Jack) in Outcasts
A rainy night in London town this evening for a special BBC Drama event.
Launching both its autumn and winter season, as well as a vision of the future.
Many actors, writers, directors and producers were there.
Including Sherlock and Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, David Morrissey and Anne Reid. Continue reading
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Harry (Peter Firth) and friends
“At present, we have more questions than answers,” she points out.
Will Ros survive to make it into another series of Spooks?
Who will she shoot this week?
And just what is her perfume made of? Continue reading
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Parched: Ruth, played by Nicola Walker
I’m sure you are as shocked as I am to discover that next in line is episode seven.
Of eight.
You wait a year – or even longer – to see the new series of Spooks.
And then in a flash…it’s almost over. Continue reading
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Ros (Hermione Norris) and Ryan (Ewen Bremner)
“MI5 Safe House, SE16.”
It’s almost panto season, so shall we all shout this together? Continue reading
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Ros (Hermione Norris) having an exceedingly bad day at work
But I’m so glad the humble cake stand is making a comeback, both on screen and off.
Not that Ros finds time to nibble a Fondant Fancy when she meets up with her former MI6 mentor Jack Coleville. Continue reading
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Trust Me: Richard Armitage as Lucas North
Long before series eight, episode four.
The one where Lucas North (Richard Armitage) and his past collide.
And he also visits Waterstone’s bookshop in London’s Piccadilly. Continue reading
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Hostage Ros (Hermione Norris)
“WHO doesn’t want to be a dead billionaire?”
That’s the nightmare game show at the heart of Spooks episode three.
Along with very angry man in black Lucas North (Richard Armitage) having that fight in a swimming pool.
And something that may come as a shock to those viewers unfamiliar with The Way Spooks Works. Continue reading
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