http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:48:56 +0000 MyBB http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-753.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:07 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-753.html Found your wonderful web site a few days ago and just had to join up.
I hail from Springfield, Massachusetts. As an IT Manager I can really relate to Malcolm. He is my hero. I have enjoyed passing the time during this long New England winter watching the series from the beginning.
Looking forward to series nine.

Regards]]> Found your wonderful web site a few days ago and just had to join up.
I hail from Springfield, Massachusetts. As an IT Manager I can really relate to Malcolm. He is my hero. I have enjoyed passing the time during this long New England winter watching the series from the beginning.
Looking forward to series nine.

Regards]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-752.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:05:53 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-752.html http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-750.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:05:49 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-750.html What would you like to see in the new series?
Do you think we will have one storyline throughout the whole series, again?

You can show us your script skills and maybe if Kudos reads your storyline and thinks it's a good one, they will hire you

So what ever thought that comes into your mind about series 9.]]> What would you like to see in the new series?
Do you think we will have one storyline throughout the whole series, again?

You can show us your script skills and maybe if Kudos reads your storyline and thinks it's a good one, they will hire you

So what ever thought that comes into your mind about series 9.]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-749.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:14:50 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-749.html
Hope you can all hang out until then.

Thanks so much for reading and reviewing so far!]]>
Hope you can all hang out until then.

Thanks so much for reading and reviewing so far!]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-748.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:49:05 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-748.html
*****Spoilers for 2.09*****

[21st May 2004]

This week we’ve been investigating the Chala Cartel. The Colombian biggest drug traffickers are thought to be bringing air missiles into the country.
Last night Tom was in a Customs and Excise surveillance van awaiting the Chala Cartel shipment in the coastline of Kent. It was a quiet night so far, Tom left the van to report his status and when he came back, he found out his collegues fate, they were all slaughtered.

Early this morning we discussed all the implications in the meeting room. The Spanish liaison officer from the CESID had warned Zoe about the Chala Cartel. Three months ago they set a bomb in Madrid which killed 30 youngsters in a disco.

We have to be very careful, these people do whatever they think it’s necessary to get their goal. If they have fire power in Spain they’ll have it here, as London has the biggest community of Colombians outside Madrid.

We have intelligence that Rafael Morientes, one of the leaders of the Chala Cartel, is in London and moreover, he is dealing with Ross Vaughan, leader of Petcal (one of the main oil industries in the UK), through Rafa’s girlfriend Mariella.

Chala is a lawless region where a great amount of drug dealers, left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, etc. coexist. A nightmare of a place. That must have thought Vaughan in the 1980s, when his company had oil interests in that place. He must have bought protection from the Chala Cartel and now he’s returning Rafa the favour; a classic qui pro quo relationship.


[24th May 2004]

The Chala Cartel are having their meetings in Petcal headquarters, where Danny managed to bug the cleaning room where those take place.

This morning, I listened to these recordings (as well as refreshing my Spanish), I was beginning to think they would say nothing important when I realised they had the intention of swapping a shipment of drugs for Surface to Air missiles. I told Harry as soon as I learnt all the details.
I get too excited the moment I discovered something vital in an operation, that I completely forget to knock before entering Harry's office. Hope he understands my motives.

Later in the meeting room, given that the Chala Cartel and other Carteles carried out attacks in planes during the 1990s, I expressed my concern about bothering people of their kind. No sooner had I finished my first sentence, than Tom began to yell at me, he even said I might as well go back to GCHQ! It was an awkward moment, everybody fell silent. He apologised afterwards. I don’t blame him, I know he’s upset, high-strung he’s going through a hard time in his life. First Ellie, then the EERIE exercise, and now he nearly got killed in an op. He’s being too emotional at the moment (I can understand his feelings though).


In the afternoon, I went to Harry’s office to brief him about the documents Mariella was carrying in her briefcase aimed to Vaughan, thanks to Zoe and Tom being undercover.
Vaughan is using the huge PETCAL apparatus to help bring the drugs in and then make the money vanish. If all this information were filtered... Harry said it had to be smothered... It’s astonishing the things we discover in this job, heads of leading industries making deals with mafia and drug dealers, laundering money... and what we have to do is to turn a blind eye.


[27th May 2004]

The whole Chala Cartel operation ended. Rafa was killed and it was all over. Apparently somebody high up in the goverment was protecting Vaughan. It will appear in the news that all this was a Colombian matter, no British people implicated. So wrong, so unfair. That is how it works, I reckon, I don’t feel comfortable at all, though. I don’t have a clear concious and less when an inocent was killed, Mariella, stabbed by her boyfriend.

In the middle of this operation, Sam was fooled by Tessa Philips, a former MI5 officer with no morality and no qualms. Without knowing what she was doing, actually, Sam filtered some important information about the Chala Cartel, and Tessa used it to tip off Vaughan in order take her personal revenge on Harry and that was Mariela’s end, in Tom’s arms.

In this job you walk over the line most of the times, and sometimes, you cross it, does the aim justify the means? Today is one of those days you question your work... Another sleepless night awaits for me...]]>
*****Spoilers for 2.09*****

[21st May 2004]

This week we’ve been investigating the Chala Cartel. The Colombian biggest drug traffickers are thought to be bringing air missiles into the country.
Last night Tom was in a Customs and Excise surveillance van awaiting the Chala Cartel shipment in the coastline of Kent. It was a quiet night so far, Tom left the van to report his status and when he came back, he found out his collegues fate, they were all slaughtered.

Early this morning we discussed all the implications in the meeting room. The Spanish liaison officer from the CESID had warned Zoe about the Chala Cartel. Three months ago they set a bomb in Madrid which killed 30 youngsters in a disco.

We have to be very careful, these people do whatever they think it’s necessary to get their goal. If they have fire power in Spain they’ll have it here, as London has the biggest community of Colombians outside Madrid.

We have intelligence that Rafael Morientes, one of the leaders of the Chala Cartel, is in London and moreover, he is dealing with Ross Vaughan, leader of Petcal (one of the main oil industries in the UK), through Rafa’s girlfriend Mariella.

Chala is a lawless region where a great amount of drug dealers, left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, etc. coexist. A nightmare of a place. That must have thought Vaughan in the 1980s, when his company had oil interests in that place. He must have bought protection from the Chala Cartel and now he’s returning Rafa the favour; a classic qui pro quo relationship.


[24th May 2004]

The Chala Cartel are having their meetings in Petcal headquarters, where Danny managed to bug the cleaning room where those take place.

This morning, I listened to these recordings (as well as refreshing my Spanish), I was beginning to think they would say nothing important when I realised they had the intention of swapping a shipment of drugs for Surface to Air missiles. I told Harry as soon as I learnt all the details.
I get too excited the moment I discovered something vital in an operation, that I completely forget to knock before entering Harry's office. Hope he understands my motives.

Later in the meeting room, given that the Chala Cartel and other Carteles carried out attacks in planes during the 1990s, I expressed my concern about bothering people of their kind. No sooner had I finished my first sentence, than Tom began to yell at me, he even said I might as well go back to GCHQ! It was an awkward moment, everybody fell silent. He apologised afterwards. I don’t blame him, I know he’s upset, high-strung he’s going through a hard time in his life. First Ellie, then the EERIE exercise, and now he nearly got killed in an op. He’s being too emotional at the moment (I can understand his feelings though).


In the afternoon, I went to Harry’s office to brief him about the documents Mariella was carrying in her briefcase aimed to Vaughan, thanks to Zoe and Tom being undercover.
Vaughan is using the huge PETCAL apparatus to help bring the drugs in and then make the money vanish. If all this information were filtered... Harry said it had to be smothered... It’s astonishing the things we discover in this job, heads of leading industries making deals with mafia and drug dealers, laundering money... and what we have to do is to turn a blind eye.


[27th May 2004]

The whole Chala Cartel operation ended. Rafa was killed and it was all over. Apparently somebody high up in the goverment was protecting Vaughan. It will appear in the news that all this was a Colombian matter, no British people implicated. So wrong, so unfair. That is how it works, I reckon, I don’t feel comfortable at all, though. I don’t have a clear concious and less when an inocent was killed, Mariella, stabbed by her boyfriend.

In the middle of this operation, Sam was fooled by Tessa Philips, a former MI5 officer with no morality and no qualms. Without knowing what she was doing, actually, Sam filtered some important information about the Chala Cartel, and Tessa used it to tip off Vaughan in order take her personal revenge on Harry and that was Mariela’s end, in Tom’s arms.

In this job you walk over the line most of the times, and sometimes, you cross it, does the aim justify the means? Today is one of those days you question your work... Another sleepless night awaits for me...]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-745.html Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:22:29 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-745.html
Aside from that this episode was the first time we really saw Tom starting to crack. He loathed his mission and didn't understand why he was tasked with spying on someone he thought was a hero. Some of which I partly understand.

I'm sure MM fans were pleased to see him in a uniform lol.

I thought the notion of a small company of soldiers capturing some nuclear waste was a bit far-fetched though, and they could have done something much better with the backstory.

What did you think?]]>
Aside from that this episode was the first time we really saw Tom starting to crack. He loathed his mission and didn't understand why he was tasked with spying on someone he thought was a hero. Some of which I partly understand.

I'm sure MM fans were pleased to see him in a uniform lol.

I thought the notion of a small company of soldiers capturing some nuclear waste was a bit far-fetched though, and they could have done something much better with the backstory.

What did you think?]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-744.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:24:32 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-744.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/boo...ite-Spooks]]>
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/boo...ite-Spooks]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-743.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:56:58 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-743.html
All entries should start with the phrase "You know you're a fan of spooks when..."

Ladies and gentlemen, commence NOW!]]>
All entries should start with the phrase "You know you're a fan of spooks when..."

Ladies and gentlemen, commence NOW!]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-742.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:29:14 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-742.html http://richardarmitagecentral.co.uk/v/Li...cas+North/]]> http://richardarmitagecentral.co.uk/v/Li...cas+North/]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-741.html Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:04:45 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-741.html
Just popping in to show my face.

I must confess to only watching Spooks for RA purposes so have only seen Series 7 and 8. But both series I have enjoyed enormously and I can't remember the last time that I have been engrossed in a programme for the full 58 minutes but such is the quality of the script writing and excellent storylines that you are hooked. I think all the cast are excellent too.

Anyway I haven't looked around yet so off I go ]]>
Just popping in to show my face.

I must confess to only watching Spooks for RA purposes so have only seen Series 7 and 8. But both series I have enjoyed enormously and I can't remember the last time that I have been engrossed in a programme for the full 58 minutes but such is the quality of the script writing and excellent storylines that you are hooked. I think all the cast are excellent too.

Anyway I haven't looked around yet so off I go ]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-740.html Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:48:16 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-740.html http://asia.bbcentertainment.com/spooks-7/quiz.html]]> http://asia.bbcentertainment.com/spooks-7/quiz.html]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-739.html Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:37:51 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-739.html
I began watching Spooks series 8 just before Christmas on BBC by chance for the first time, and hugely enjoyed it. After a couple of episodes I was hooked by it, and I have finally caught up on all of the previous series on DVD! I can't believe I have missed it before all these years!

Looking forward to talking to you all! It seems a friendly forum. I am based 'across the water' in Ireland.]]>
I began watching Spooks series 8 just before Christmas on BBC by chance for the first time, and hugely enjoyed it. After a couple of episodes I was hooked by it, and I have finally caught up on all of the previous series on DVD! I can't believe I have missed it before all these years!

Looking forward to talking to you all! It seems a friendly forum. I am based 'across the water' in Ireland.]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-738.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:25:33 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-738.html I thinks it Mozart or maybe Verdi.]]> I thinks it Mozart or maybe Verdi.]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-737.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:14:46 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-737.html
Its a H/R story set in season 5 and is just plain brilliant.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5781845/1/Secrets_Part_One

If you like part one, part 2 is also available with further chapters to come.]]>
Its a H/R story set in season 5 and is just plain brilliant.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5781845/1/Secrets_Part_One

If you like part one, part 2 is also available with further chapters to come.]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-736.html Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:36:03 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-736.html

The above image is once again made by the brilliant TygerBright!
"Ah."

Ruth's single word echoed the resignation of the others as they stepped out of the door to Thames House, and saw the fresh white blanket covering the ground. The snow wasn't exactly thick, and shouldn't really pose a problem and keep them all from going home, but the sheer volume of near-stationary traffic in the roads definitely would hinder them.

Squinting in the direction of her usual bus-stop, Ruth could just about make out a refuse lorry in the far distance, its lights flashing in the white gloom, and leaving in its wake a long trail of cars that reached to her and beyond, as far as she could see in the opposite direction. Somehow, it didn't look like her bus would be running.

"I'll give you a lift," offered Adam, jumping at the chance to intercept Harry who was just about to suggest that he would drive her, even though he lived in the complete opposite direction to her. Another missed opportunity.

Despite an initial hesitance to accept the offer, Ruth was won round when Adam insisted that as he was going to pick up his son from his boarding school and bring him home for the weekend, he would practically drive past the end of her road, so he might as well drop her home. Even so, she felt somewhat guilty; she had glimpsed Harry out of the corner of her eye watching her as she peered at the cause of the traffic jam, and she could have sworn he had been about to say something to her on the matter when Adam had interjected.

Nevertheless, the five of them traversed in silence the sizeable length of pavement between the Thames House entrance and the car-park – the door closet to the car-park having been carelessly blocked by mounds of snow 'helpfully' cleared from the parking-spaces. The car-park itself was underground, but since it would not do to have a relatively unguarded external door leading directly into the MI5 building, the facility was located a 'short but safe distance from Thames House'.

However, for one particular Spook, said distance was far from 'safe'. Unaccustomed to the combination of heeled boots and ice, Ruth soon realised that she might get into a little trouble on the slippery concrete. And it didn't help that her lower left leg was already unsteady, owing to how she had been sitting awkwardly in the meeting room for so long, her feet tucked underneath her as she curled up smaller in her chair to conserve heat. It hadn't posed a problem on the short way down from the Grid but now, having to better control her steps to avoid slipping on the icy pavement, it was making her feel rather tentative and wary.

Even so she strode unwaveringly behind Adam, not wanting to have him waiting for her. She was all too aware of Harry's closeness to her as he walked just behind her, and she stood up straighter as she walked, determined that she would not make a fool out of herself in front of him. She would be cool and collected. She would carry herself with the utmost poise and would ooze grace.

She would catch her heel on a patch of ice and skid, wouldn't she?
Underneath, she knew it was inevitable; she had been expecting it. What she was not expecting, was a pair of strong hands darting out and catching her before she hit the ground. She opened her eyes from being squeezed shut in preparation for the fall, and stared into a pair of bright eyes, flecked with concern.

"I've got you," Harry murmured in assurance. "I won't let you go." He helped her up to a standing position. "Are you alright?"

She nodded numbly, still a little stunned. He frowned slightly in concern. "Are you sure?" he asked, leaning just that little bit closer. "You do look a bit pale..." Well, she had lost her colour until he had decrease the gap between them. Now she felt like she was turning into a bright red cherry. "There, that's better."

She smiled ruefully at him. "It's just the shock," she insisted. "And the cold."

And the fact that his hand was still on her upper arm. Even through the thick padding of her warm coat, she could feel the slight pressure from his hand, and, if she wasn't mistaken (and she prayed that she wasn't) his thumb was lightly caressing her arm! Whether or not it was intentional, the soft motion was starting to send her heart rate into overdrive, and if she wasn't careful-

She suddenly felt her hand being yanked sharply and she stumbled forwards, just as a massive snowball was catapulted towards where her head had been not one second ago. A quick look at Harry's apologetic face told her it was he who had pulled her out of the flight-path.
"I'm fine," she insisted, before he could ask the question. He nodded slowly, disbelievingly.

"You missed," Harry called at Zaf, though he kept his eyes on Ruth. "Both of us, in fact."

"Well you moved!" protested Zaf loudly and indignantly.

"Isn't that the point of a snowball fight?" asked Harry, tearing his eyes from Ruth and looking accusingly at the other three. "You're supposed to avoid being hit."

"Is this a snowball fight then?" Adam shouted, half-jokingly.
"No, Adam," came the firm reply.

And that would have been the end of it, were it not for a certain Intelligence Analyst.

"Come on Harry," pleaded Ruth, her eyes shining with the enthusiasm she usually reserved for when a Homeric quote needed deciphering. "Let's give them a run for their money."

Harry was torn between accepting the challenge, and gleaning some more time with Ruth, or refusing, and thus keeping secret the fact that he was so eager to do so. He hadn't expected her to show the same level of enthusiasm for a sport, except perhaps netball, which he gathered she had been pretty good at while at university.

Ruth could see him wavering. "Juliet's always on at you about departmental bonding," she offered, "so you might as well take the opportunity. Plus, you can put your cricket skills to the test and show them how it's done."

Harry was taken aback. "How did you know I played cricket?" Ruth flushed a deeper shade of crimson and looked down guiltily, and it suddenly clicked. "Have you read my file?" he asked, not unkindly.
She nodded in assertance. "For operational reasons!" she insisted, although it wasn't at all.

He wasn't at all convinced, but he let it slide. In relief, she pressed him for an answer. "So, snowball fight?"

"Go on then," he conceded. He glanced over to where Adam, Zaf and Jo were standing with their backs to them, seemingly oblivious to his decision. Harry scraped some snow of the roof of a nearby car and handed some to Ruth, rolling his portion into a compact ball, as she mirrored his actions. "Ready?" he asked, when they had finished. She nodded once, and drew her arm back, poised to throw.

"GO!"]]>

The above image is once again made by the brilliant TygerBright!
"Ah."

Ruth's single word echoed the resignation of the others as they stepped out of the door to Thames House, and saw the fresh white blanket covering the ground. The snow wasn't exactly thick, and shouldn't really pose a problem and keep them all from going home, but the sheer volume of near-stationary traffic in the roads definitely would hinder them.

Squinting in the direction of her usual bus-stop, Ruth could just about make out a refuse lorry in the far distance, its lights flashing in the white gloom, and leaving in its wake a long trail of cars that reached to her and beyond, as far as she could see in the opposite direction. Somehow, it didn't look like her bus would be running.

"I'll give you a lift," offered Adam, jumping at the chance to intercept Harry who was just about to suggest that he would drive her, even though he lived in the complete opposite direction to her. Another missed opportunity.

Despite an initial hesitance to accept the offer, Ruth was won round when Adam insisted that as he was going to pick up his son from his boarding school and bring him home for the weekend, he would practically drive past the end of her road, so he might as well drop her home. Even so, she felt somewhat guilty; she had glimpsed Harry out of the corner of her eye watching her as she peered at the cause of the traffic jam, and she could have sworn he had been about to say something to her on the matter when Adam had interjected.

Nevertheless, the five of them traversed in silence the sizeable length of pavement between the Thames House entrance and the car-park – the door closet to the car-park having been carelessly blocked by mounds of snow 'helpfully' cleared from the parking-spaces. The car-park itself was underground, but since it would not do to have a relatively unguarded external door leading directly into the MI5 building, the facility was located a 'short but safe distance from Thames House'.

However, for one particular Spook, said distance was far from 'safe'. Unaccustomed to the combination of heeled boots and ice, Ruth soon realised that she might get into a little trouble on the slippery concrete. And it didn't help that her lower left leg was already unsteady, owing to how she had been sitting awkwardly in the meeting room for so long, her feet tucked underneath her as she curled up smaller in her chair to conserve heat. It hadn't posed a problem on the short way down from the Grid but now, having to better control her steps to avoid slipping on the icy pavement, it was making her feel rather tentative and wary.

Even so she strode unwaveringly behind Adam, not wanting to have him waiting for her. She was all too aware of Harry's closeness to her as he walked just behind her, and she stood up straighter as she walked, determined that she would not make a fool out of herself in front of him. She would be cool and collected. She would carry herself with the utmost poise and would ooze grace.

She would catch her heel on a patch of ice and skid, wouldn't she?
Underneath, she knew it was inevitable; she had been expecting it. What she was not expecting, was a pair of strong hands darting out and catching her before she hit the ground. She opened her eyes from being squeezed shut in preparation for the fall, and stared into a pair of bright eyes, flecked with concern.

"I've got you," Harry murmured in assurance. "I won't let you go." He helped her up to a standing position. "Are you alright?"

She nodded numbly, still a little stunned. He frowned slightly in concern. "Are you sure?" he asked, leaning just that little bit closer. "You do look a bit pale..." Well, she had lost her colour until he had decrease the gap between them. Now she felt like she was turning into a bright red cherry. "There, that's better."

She smiled ruefully at him. "It's just the shock," she insisted. "And the cold."

And the fact that his hand was still on her upper arm. Even through the thick padding of her warm coat, she could feel the slight pressure from his hand, and, if she wasn't mistaken (and she prayed that she wasn't) his thumb was lightly caressing her arm! Whether or not it was intentional, the soft motion was starting to send her heart rate into overdrive, and if she wasn't careful-

She suddenly felt her hand being yanked sharply and she stumbled forwards, just as a massive snowball was catapulted towards where her head had been not one second ago. A quick look at Harry's apologetic face told her it was he who had pulled her out of the flight-path.
"I'm fine," she insisted, before he could ask the question. He nodded slowly, disbelievingly.

"You missed," Harry called at Zaf, though he kept his eyes on Ruth. "Both of us, in fact."

"Well you moved!" protested Zaf loudly and indignantly.

"Isn't that the point of a snowball fight?" asked Harry, tearing his eyes from Ruth and looking accusingly at the other three. "You're supposed to avoid being hit."

"Is this a snowball fight then?" Adam shouted, half-jokingly.
"No, Adam," came the firm reply.

And that would have been the end of it, were it not for a certain Intelligence Analyst.

"Come on Harry," pleaded Ruth, her eyes shining with the enthusiasm she usually reserved for when a Homeric quote needed deciphering. "Let's give them a run for their money."

Harry was torn between accepting the challenge, and gleaning some more time with Ruth, or refusing, and thus keeping secret the fact that he was so eager to do so. He hadn't expected her to show the same level of enthusiasm for a sport, except perhaps netball, which he gathered she had been pretty good at while at university.

Ruth could see him wavering. "Juliet's always on at you about departmental bonding," she offered, "so you might as well take the opportunity. Plus, you can put your cricket skills to the test and show them how it's done."

Harry was taken aback. "How did you know I played cricket?" Ruth flushed a deeper shade of crimson and looked down guiltily, and it suddenly clicked. "Have you read my file?" he asked, not unkindly.
She nodded in assertance. "For operational reasons!" she insisted, although it wasn't at all.

He wasn't at all convinced, but he let it slide. In relief, she pressed him for an answer. "So, snowball fight?"

"Go on then," he conceded. He glanced over to where Adam, Zaf and Jo were standing with their backs to them, seemingly oblivious to his decision. Harry scraped some snow of the roof of a nearby car and handed some to Ruth, rolling his portion into a compact ball, as she mirrored his actions. "Ready?" he asked, when they had finished. She nodded once, and drew her arm back, poised to throw.

"GO!"]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-735.html Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:24:13 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-735.html

Refocusing BBC Online

To fulfil this remit, BBC Online will require a new, harder focus on quality and distinctiveness.
All online content should feel justified and purposeful: not extraneous or encyclopaedic, but
within a distinct editorial purpose. This commitment will be backed with a new, tighter system
of performance management requiring the routine ‘weeding’ of the site and the placing of its
remaining content into fewer, better organised categories. There will also be very clear and
demanding criteria for justifying new activity (i.e., that it must serve at least one of the BBC’s
five content priorities; help meet the BBC’s public purposes; demonstrate a high level of
editorial relevance and quality; be continually refreshed; provide value to a wide range of
audiences; and demonstrate sensitivity to market impact).



The number of sections on the site (its ‘top-level directories’, which the public find through
addresses in the form: bbc.co.uk/sitename) will be halved by 2012, with many sites closed and
others consolidated, so that the sharpened focus of BBC Online will be visible in the structure
of the service:



• Some sites that are currently live will be closed, such as /celebdaq, /sportdaq, /naturestop40,
/lastmillionaire, /jamiekane, /bbcpartners, /openweekend, /actingup, /amiafreak
• A number of sites that have already been ‘mothballed’ will also be closed, such as
/amazingmrspritchard, /streetdoctor, /keyskills, /strictlydancefever, /filmfestival,
/underdogshow
• Some sites will be consolidated under larger audience-facing propositions, such as /history
or /drama e.g., /spooks, /robinhood.

---

In my opinion this is quite good considering the website receives little attention for 10 months of the year. It may now get some! I also think it shows the commitment of the BBC to Spooks going forward. Considering the problems the BBC are seemingly facing the website gets to fight another day albeit in a different format.]]>

Refocusing BBC Online

To fulfil this remit, BBC Online will require a new, harder focus on quality and distinctiveness.
All online content should feel justified and purposeful: not extraneous or encyclopaedic, but
within a distinct editorial purpose. This commitment will be backed with a new, tighter system
of performance management requiring the routine ‘weeding’ of the site and the placing of its
remaining content into fewer, better organised categories. There will also be very clear and
demanding criteria for justifying new activity (i.e., that it must serve at least one of the BBC’s
five content priorities; help meet the BBC’s public purposes; demonstrate a high level of
editorial relevance and quality; be continually refreshed; provide value to a wide range of
audiences; and demonstrate sensitivity to market impact).



The number of sections on the site (its ‘top-level directories’, which the public find through
addresses in the form: bbc.co.uk/sitename) will be halved by 2012, with many sites closed and
others consolidated, so that the sharpened focus of BBC Online will be visible in the structure
of the service:



• Some sites that are currently live will be closed, such as /celebdaq, /sportdaq, /naturestop40,
/lastmillionaire, /jamiekane, /bbcpartners, /openweekend, /actingup, /amiafreak
• A number of sites that have already been ‘mothballed’ will also be closed, such as
/amazingmrspritchard, /streetdoctor, /keyskills, /strictlydancefever, /filmfestival,
/underdogshow
• Some sites will be consolidated under larger audience-facing propositions, such as /history
or /drama e.g., /spooks, /robinhood.

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In my opinion this is quite good considering the website receives little attention for 10 months of the year. It may now get some! I also think it shows the commitment of the BBC to Spooks going forward. Considering the problems the BBC are seemingly facing the website gets to fight another day albeit in a different format.]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-734.html Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:33:19 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-734.html http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-733.html Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:58:10 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-733.html
She will be helping me and JHyde (and hopefully bertowud when he returns) with the general running of the forum.

Please treat her with the respect that she deserves and join me in welcoming her to the Staff!

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She will be helping me and JHyde (and hopefully bertowud when he returns) with the general running of the forum.

Please treat her with the respect that she deserves and join me in welcoming her to the Staff!

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http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/5837181?fr=yvmtf]]> http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-729.html Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:50:11 -0800 http://www.spooksforum.co.uk/thread-729.html
I'm so happy to have found this forum. I've been a fan of Spooks for a few years now, but only recently managed to catch up all the way. Once I finished series eight, I knew I had to find something because I was going crazy not having anyone to talk to about it. None of my friends watch Spooks and my cousin in London isn't really the type to analyze a tv show, so here I am.

I'm currently in my last year in university doing an undergraduate degree in Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeology. I'm most fascinated by the archaeology of Achaemenid Iran and basically ALL of Celtic archaeology. I've been on two digs already, one in a jungle in Belize and one in the Andes in Ecuador and I'm planning on doing an underwater dig in the summer in the Mediterranean off of Italy.

Well, enough blabbing on my part. :] Hope everyone's well!

-phoenix.]]>
I'm so happy to have found this forum. I've been a fan of Spooks for a few years now, but only recently managed to catch up all the way. Once I finished series eight, I knew I had to find something because I was going crazy not having anyone to talk to about it. None of my friends watch Spooks and my cousin in London isn't really the type to analyze a tv show, so here I am.

I'm currently in my last year in university doing an undergraduate degree in Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeology. I'm most fascinated by the archaeology of Achaemenid Iran and basically ALL of Celtic archaeology. I've been on two digs already, one in a jungle in Belize and one in the Andes in Ecuador and I'm planning on doing an underwater dig in the summer in the Mediterranean off of Italy.

Well, enough blabbing on my part. :] Hope everyone's well!

-phoenix.]]>