[spoilers] Spooks Locations

[Tea Lady]

The aerial shots and night shots are always of the real Thames House. These are from a distance. The front close up shot is Freemasons Hall. As they film outside the building quite often I think it is sensible to use Freemasons Hall as the TV face of Thames House. Almh, is right. You need permission to film in London and I would imagine that it was near on impossible to get permission to film outside the real building. I think most people would realise that Freemasons Hall is not the real Thames House as the security would be a joke then. I know you can see all these buildings on the net from above but you dont see the people who work there coming in and out. Spooks is fiction and it would be wrong to put any officers actually at risk which could be the case if they were accidentally caught in a TV shot.