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Just like buses, you wait ages for a London theatre opening with a lowculture connection then two come along at once. (Actually they came along yesterday but Damages deserves a day to itself.) First we’re in the West End where Kim Cattrall stars in Noel Coward’s Private Lives. Cattrall is of course best known for [...]

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Within five minutes the first episode of the eighth season, Spooks had proven that it is still one of the best dramas around. If any justification were needed for the Licence Fee then this is it. So the Daily Mail and its Army of Tutters can shut their collective face.
Each episode is an hour of [...]

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For your spies only

by Steven Perkins on October 27, 2008

in Drama, TV

COVERT! Spooks, BBC1, 9.00pm
Before I start, I’m going to add a little caveat in here: no matter how hard I try to follow Spooks, I always suffer with two fairly significant problems. One is that I always end up missing the crucial bit of information in each episode that explains to me what the [...]

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The spies who confused me

by Steven Perkins on October 16, 2007

in TV

SPIES! Spooks, BBC1, 9.00pm
It’s not often that we stick with a show when we don’t know what’s going on. We gave up on Lost before the episode numbers hit double digits because we knew they weren’t going to explain any of the mysteries in a hurry and frankly we couldn’t be bothered to sit [...]

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