Spooks

Spooks is a BAFTA award-winning British television drama series produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 Officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid. In the United States and France, the show is broadcast under the title MI-5. In Canada, the programme origina... more

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Air date of first episode:

  • May 13, 2002

Original episode running time:

  • 1 h

Number of seasons:

  • 8

Number of episodes:

  • 64

Also known as:

  • MI-5

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Program creator

David Wolstencroft

David Wolstencroft is a Scottish television writer and author. He is best known as creator of the BAFTA award-winning TV spy drama Spooks and its spin-off series, Spooks: Code 9. Wolstencroft was born in 1969 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of two novels, his first Good News,...

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