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Spooks: Code 9 Press Release
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degravedi
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Spooks: Code 9 Press Release
Upcoming Spooks spinoff show and extended experience

It looks like the forces behind the BBC show "Spooks" are not only going to turn out a spinoff of the show, but an extended experience of it as well.

From here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/07_july/16/spooks.shtml

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The year is 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...? Spooks: Code 9 is a new six-part drama for BBC Three, due to be broadcast in August 2008.

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) was a psychology student just back from her gap year.

"Nearly one year on from the bomb, Britain is starting to get back to something resembling normality," says executive producer Karen Wilson. "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."

Sarah Brandist, Commissioning Editor, Independent Drama 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, says: "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 exciting 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 a Kudos production, commissioned for BBC Three by Jane Tranter, Controller, BBC Fiction, and supported by Screen Yorkshire. Created by David Wolstencroft and written by Cal Bedford, Howard Overman, Ben Schiffer, Tony Basgallop, 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.

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:25 pm

degravedi
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Spooks: Code 9, the hotly anticipated new BBC Three series from Kudos Film & Television that will transmit on the channel this August, is set to be supported by a raft of groundbreaking interactive elements.

These will enable viewers to get even closer to the world of conspiracy and espionage portrayed in the series, which is set in 2013 and focuses on a rookie MI5 team formed after London suffers a catastrophic nuclear attack.

The show will be trailed by a viral marketing campaign created by Agency Republic that uses new face-mapping technology which allows people to place themselves in the action and feature in a video of a high-pressured undercover operation.

Liberty News at www.libertynews.co.uk, a fictional future news agency, forms the central point of the cutting-edge multi-platform experience produced for BBC Three by Kudos Film and Television and leading alternate reality game specialists Six to Start.

An advanced online news site with a twist, libertynews.co.uk will update with breaking news stories containing extra information, photos and videos, just seconds after events happen as the episode transmits on BBC Three.

Liberty News will prodive a multi-dimensional setting for the show and enable BBC Three viewers to further immerse themselves in the unpredictable world of Spooks: Code 9.

Visitors will also be able to contribute their own video, comments and photo uploads to the site, search out information about the main characters, and participate in live Q&A sessions with inhabitants of the Spooks: Code 9 universe.

Executive Producer for Six to Start, Dan Hon, says: "The universe of Spooks: Code 9 is fascinating and, with www.libertynews.co.uk, fans of the show will be able to explore the backstory of its characters and world as if it were completely real."

Going live in the weeks prior to the transmission of Episode 1, www.libertynews.co.uk will feature web 2.0 applications including an interactive map of London showing destroyed and contaminated areas, quizzes for emergency training, and live polls asking visitors to vote on the locations of new cities to be built.

www.libertynews.co.uk is the latest of Kudos's interactive programme-based online offerings which include their BAFTA award winning Spooks Interactive, the interactive experience created by Kudos and Hoodlum and produced by Linda Paalanne for series six of the award-winning BBC One drama series Spooks.

And that bold bit, is just fricking awesome. Not that I'll be able to take part, but good luck to those that'll be able to watch the show!

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:31 pm

Giles Perry BBC
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[spooks] CODE 9 viral marketing

Hi, Im Giles Perry and Im Digital Creative in Marketing for the BBC. Ive developed an interactive viral video with Agency Republic thats a UK media first in that ou can map your own face onto the video in 3D....Pretty cool stuff. You can access it and have a play at

www.facespook.co.uk
Tell your friends and have fun!

Giles[/url]

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:52 pm

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