[ Spooks: Code 9 ]
Spooks: Code 9 was commissioned by BBC Fiction's controller Jane Tranter as a spin-off of Spooks, offering a "more maverick, younger perspective" that would attract a 16-24-year-old audience.
The series follows a group of six new young MI5 recruits who "follow a different rule book". As Spooks, It was produced by the Kudos but was filmed in and around Leeds and Bradford. It began on BBC Three on 10 August 2008.
The series begins in 2012 (just after the 2012 Summer Olympics), when London and some of the south east has been evacuated in the wake of a nuclear attack during the opening ceremony of the Games. The government has relocated to Manchester; Thames House has been decommissioned, and MI5 is forced to set up offices across the UK in an attempt to help the country avoid new attacks.
The series follows a group of six new young MI5 recruits who "follow a different rule book". As Spooks, It was produced by the Kudos but was filmed in and around Leeds and Bradford. It began on BBC Three on 10 August 2008.
The series begins in 2012 (just after the 2012 Summer Olympics), when London and some of the south east has been evacuated in the wake of a nuclear attack during the opening ceremony of the Games. The government has relocated to Manchester; Thames House has been decommissioned, and MI5 is forced to set up offices across the UK in an attempt to help the country avoid new attacks.
Cast
Charlie Green (Liam Boyle) - an ex-mathematician who leads the team
Rachel Harris (Ruta Gedmintas) - a former police officer.
Vik Kamath (Christopher Simpson) - an entrepreneur
Kylie Roman (Georgia Moffett) - a former psychology student.
Rob Sullivan (Andrew Knott) - formerly a doctor, and now the team medic.
Jez Cook (Heshima Thompson) - a reformed criminal.
Sarah Yates (Lorraine Burroughs) - formerly head of operations for MI5
Saeed Khan (Parvez Qadir) - director-general of MI6
Episode Guide
Episode 1: A new age of terrorists threatens Her Majesty's Secret Service, leading the government to recruit younger members into MI5. The team plan to foil an assassination plot against the Prime Minister, however they only have five and a half hours (330 minutes) to find the killer and stop him.
Episode 2: Protesters hack into the government's emergency communications system and broadcast a video of dead inmates at a prison.
Episode 3: Jez and Kylie go undercover on a housing estate to investigate a source of fake radiation drugs, but the killing of a police officer puts the pair in grave danger
Episode 4: The murder of two MI5 informants reveals a leak at a government Missing Person's scheme.
Episode 5: A bank heist by eco terrorists, involving a 16-year-old suicide bomber, leads the team to uncover a secret deal between the British government and a Korean billionaire. Will the team be able to free the hostages and stop the terrorists from completing their deadly mission? Charlie speaks to the British scientist wrongly imprisoned for the London attack and discovers there may be a second nuclear bomb.
Episode 6: With the anniversary of the London attack imminent and the knowledge there may be a second nuclear device still out there, Charlie and the team have 24 hours to locate the bomb and identify the MI5 traitor before another major national catastrophe is allowed to happen. The episode ends in a cliffhanger, with the ticking bomb heard in the background and Rachel dying on the floor after being shot by Yates.
Viewing Figures
The first episode of the series had (estimated) 810,000 viewers for a multichannel share of 3.8%, with the second episode (broadcast immediately after the first) having 703,000 viewers and 4.0% share. But the show lost half its viewers the following week and viewing figures continued to fall, with the final episode of series 1 having only 245,000. As a result it wasn’t commissioned for a second series.
Charlie Green (Liam Boyle) - an ex-mathematician who leads the team
Rachel Harris (Ruta Gedmintas) - a former police officer.
Vik Kamath (Christopher Simpson) - an entrepreneur
Kylie Roman (Georgia Moffett) - a former psychology student.
Rob Sullivan (Andrew Knott) - formerly a doctor, and now the team medic.
Jez Cook (Heshima Thompson) - a reformed criminal.
Sarah Yates (Lorraine Burroughs) - formerly head of operations for MI5
Saeed Khan (Parvez Qadir) - director-general of MI6
Episode Guide
Episode 1: A new age of terrorists threatens Her Majesty's Secret Service, leading the government to recruit younger members into MI5. The team plan to foil an assassination plot against the Prime Minister, however they only have five and a half hours (330 minutes) to find the killer and stop him.
Episode 2: Protesters hack into the government's emergency communications system and broadcast a video of dead inmates at a prison.
Episode 3: Jez and Kylie go undercover on a housing estate to investigate a source of fake radiation drugs, but the killing of a police officer puts the pair in grave danger
Episode 4: The murder of two MI5 informants reveals a leak at a government Missing Person's scheme.
Episode 5: A bank heist by eco terrorists, involving a 16-year-old suicide bomber, leads the team to uncover a secret deal between the British government and a Korean billionaire. Will the team be able to free the hostages and stop the terrorists from completing their deadly mission? Charlie speaks to the British scientist wrongly imprisoned for the London attack and discovers there may be a second nuclear bomb.
Episode 6: With the anniversary of the London attack imminent and the knowledge there may be a second nuclear device still out there, Charlie and the team have 24 hours to locate the bomb and identify the MI5 traitor before another major national catastrophe is allowed to happen. The episode ends in a cliffhanger, with the ticking bomb heard in the background and Rachel dying on the floor after being shot by Yates.
Viewing Figures
The first episode of the series had (estimated) 810,000 viewers for a multichannel share of 3.8%, with the second episode (broadcast immediately after the first) having 703,000 viewers and 4.0% share. But the show lost half its viewers the following week and viewing figures continued to fall, with the final episode of series 1 having only 245,000. As a result it wasn’t commissioned for a second series.