(quite why I've found this out through an Australian site, I don't know)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-02/britain27s-spy-agency-launches-code-breaking-recruitment-drive/3707924

GCHQ have launched an online code-breaking game as part of a recruitment drive. It's going on until 12/12, so...have fun? And if anyone does manage to figure out the code ( Read more... )

Just got a newsletter email from Paul Leonard-Morgan's site. Looks like he composed at least some of the music for the recent series, and the newsletter says how not one, but two new Spooks soundtracks will be released to iTunes.

The first is 'a compilation of the best tracks from Series 7 & 8' and the other is a collection from Series 9 & 10.

No ( Read more... )

Myself and madama_airlock left some questions with Nicola at the Hampstead Theatre weeks back at the start of the play's run. We didn't really think we would get a reply, as she is quite a busy lady at the moment but last week we got the answers back in the post!!! Five of the questions are Spooks ones. Ever wanted to find out how early on Nicola would have ( Read more... )

These aren't the factual ones - they all said basically the same thing - but more opinion-type articles ( Read more... )

Well, it’s finally happened. They cancelled Spooks. This series - series TEN, good lord - is going to be the last.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/11/bbc-spooks-axed

It was a Kudos rather than BBC decision, and in all honesty it probably was the right thing to do. It’ll be interesting to see what they come up with for the last series, and ( Read more... )

Hello, lovely people! Enjoying the summer? You haven't been reading Tatler, by any chance?

This is a long shot, but I noticed this on The Hairpin yesterday and it sounded like a fun thing.

http://thehairpin.com/2011/07/how-to-wash-out-of-her-majestys-secret-service-in-under-twenty-minutes

Sometimes it's all on you:
"For a start, I had written in my ( Read more... )

 
I forget how I got to find it, but I accidently did, here.

Supporting actors past and present: John Castle, aka Ros Myers' father.

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Hopefully it's okay to post this here.

Some people might have seen that I'm in the process of setting up a HN community, but for those who haven't, it's over at hermione_norris

Obviously since it's brand new it's looking pretty empty, but hopefully what with Blithe Spirit coming to London next month, and Outcasts starting next week, I hope there'll be some ( Read more... )

Matthew McFadyen (I typed Tom Quinn initially, hahaha oops) and everyone else ever is in Pillars of the Earth starting this Saturday at 9 pm on Channel 4:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-pillars-of-the-earth/articles/cast

Thanks to tigertrapped for reminding me.

Just FYI, new series of Whitechapel on tonight at 9pm on ITV 1, with Rupert Penry-Jones. Nice scheduling from ITV there, as clearly there’s no potential audience crossover between Spooks and Whitechapel… oh.