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Spooks: Code 9 - a new drama for BBC Three from the team behind Spooks
26 Mar
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2013. Thames House is gone and regional MI5 Field Offices have sprung up in its place. Are six young new recruits tough, moral and clever enough to protect Britain’s future…? Filming commenced in Bradford this month on Spooks: Code 9, a new drama for BBC Three from Kudos Film and Television, the producers behind Spooks and Life On Mars.
The year is 2013. London has been evacuated following a nuclear bomb and the country’s power base has shifted north. In the wake of the attack, MI5 must completely restructure and establish field offices across the UK, working to gather intelligence from the very heart of local communities. They need young, new officers on the ground, and fast.
Luckily, Britain’s youth is more than up to the challenge and is fighting back from the attack with a new sense of patriotism, combined with the hedonism that comes from being face to face with their own mortality. It is members of this new generation of patriots who help make up MI5’s new Field Office 19.
“After the bomb, MI5 needed new officers with ability, dedication and potential on the streets as soon as possible,” explains producer Chris Fry. “The team rallied to this call and joined MI5 in the weeks following the bomb. With the exception of their team leader, none of them have been in the field for more than four months and they will continually find themselves in situations beyond their experience and training – they’ll only succeed through grit and determination.”
Led by experienced spook Hannah (Joanne Froggatt, Life On Mars), the rookie team is made up of Charlie (Liam Boyle, Drop Dead Gorgeous), a mathematician and genius problem-solver, Rachel (Ruta Gedmintas, The Tudors), an ex-police officer with ambitions to be a leader, and Jez (Heshima Thompson, Prime Suspect: The Final Act), a new breed of spook altogether – a former criminal gone straight.
Vik (Christopher Simpson, Brick Lane) chose MI5 over a career in his family’s business, while Rob (Andrew Knott, The History Boys) was a junior doctor at the time of the bomb and Kylie (Georgia Moffett, Doctor Who) a psychology student, just back from her gap year.
Executive Producer Karen Wilson continues: “Nearly one year on from the bomb, Britain is starting to get back to something resembling normality. But, under the surface, there have been massive changes: terror warnings and security checkpoints are regular features of everyday life, and there’s a flourishing black market in everything from ID cards to anti-radiation drugs. This is the world of Spooks: Code 9 and it holds a whole new set of dangers for MI5’s young pretenders.”
Jane Tranter, Controller of BBC Fiction, says: “It’s brilliant to have the chance of looking into the future of Spooks with Spooks: Code 9 on BBC Three. The series promises to be as entertaining and action-packed as Spooks on BBC One has always been, whilst bringing a more maverick, younger perspective.”
Danny Cohen, Controller of BBC Three, comments: “I’m hugely looking forward to seeing this new drama on BBC Three. I’m a big fan of Spooks and believe that this new show will bring a dynamic cast of young actors to BBC audiences.”
In line with BBC Three’s multi-platform strategy, Spooks: Code 9 will be accompanied by an online extension produced by Kudos and leading alternate reality game studio Six to Start.
The series will include a live alternate reality experience that provides a multi-dimensional setting for the show and allows viewers to explore and contribute to this changed world.
Spooks: Code 9 is the latest drama commission for BBC Three, continuing the flow of bold and maverick new dramas including PAs, and Phoo Action.
Spooks: Code 9 is a Kudos production, commissioned for BBC Three by Jane Tranter, Controller, BBC Fiction.
Production credits
- Created by David Wolstencroft and written by David Wolstencroft, Chris Chibnall, Howard Overman, Ben Schiffer, James Moran, Cameron McAllister and Jack Lothian.
- Directed by Brendan Maher, Mat Whitecross and Toby Haynes, and produced by Chris Fry.
- Executive Producers are Simon Crawford Collins and Karen Wilson for Kudos Film and Television and Sarah Brandist and Eleanor Moran for the BBC.
BBC Press Release
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| The Tyrls police station |
Listen very carefully, because I will say this only once A highly-covert team of super-secret spies has taken up residence in the heart of Bradford, and could be walking among you even as you read this.
Official sources are remaining tight-lipped, but it is understood that a film and television production company with the codename “Kudos” has commandeered the former police station at the Tyrls off Centenary Square.
They are believed to be filming a spin-off series from the popular BBC1 spy drama Spooks, featuring a younger cast and set in the “near future”, possibly around the time of the 2012 Olympics, when a terrorist nuclear attack on London has wiped out the secret service’s headquarters at Thames House.
It is left to a team of rookie agents “who don’t play by the rules” to take over Britain’s security work. The Tyrls is thought to be doubling for their headquarters in Manchester.
Names linked to the project include hot young British talent such as Joanne Froggatt, who recently appeared in Life on Mars and before that Coronation Street; Liam Boyle (The Street, The Bill); Georgia Moffett, who is the daughter of Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson; Ruta Gedmintas (The Tudors); Christopher Simpson (the West Yorkshire-set movie Mischief Night) and Andrew Knott, who was in the movie version of Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys.
The main series of Spooks, starring Peter Firth as MI5 boss Harry and Rupert Penry-Jones as troubled agent Adam, has run to six series so far. The spin-off is expected to be aired this year on BBC3 and is aimed at a more youthful audience.
When the Telegraph & Argus approached Kudos we were met with a wall of silence. However, after making representations that the story was a matter of public interest, the T&A did get a brief chat with one secret source.
… the series is called Spooks: Liberty… the series has also had a working title, called Rogue Spooks. When asked if we could have access to the filming at the Tyrls we were told: “Absolutely not. It is a completely closed set. I’m afraid we can’t confirm or deny anything about it at the moment.”
The major player in this story seems to be the “BBC”, which is understood to be a quasi-autonomous public corporation, funded from the public purse via central Government control.
A spokesman for the organisation said: “We haven’t really got any press material for the new series yet because it’s still in production.”
However, documents classified as Above Top Secret and obtained by the T&A (okay, found on the floor of the NCP car park on Hall Ings) reveal certain details about the production, including the facts that the agents’ headquarters in the Tyrls are designated “MI5 Field Office 19″, one episode features a scene in a massage parlour and a university study hall, where someone gets shot in the head, and there is no smoking, eating or drinking on set at any time, although breakfast is generally about 7am.
More details will follow as our investigations continue.
By David Barnett thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
I-spy with my little eye something familiar about the star of the forthcoming Spooks spin-off.
She played John Simm’s mum in Life On Mars and now Joanne Froggatt will star in Spooks Liberty on BBC3. Those with longer memories may remember Joanne as troubled Zoe Tattersall in Coronation Street (the lass who went off and joined a cult in America).
Joanne - Bafta-nominated for her role in Danielle Cable: Eyewitness - plays the leader of a gang of young maverick MI5 recruits who “follow their own rulebook”.
My spy reports: “The action takes place in Manchester because London has been wiped out by a nuclear attack.
“Half of MI5 were killed in the disaster, so it’s down to a bunch of new recruits to sort things out. They are rather less conventional than what’s gone before.
“The idea is to appeal to young viewers - this is BBC3’s answer to E4’s Skins.”
Joanne and her gang of crime-fighters leap into action later in the year. Baddies beware!
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