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CUSTARD TV PODCAST #151: I’m a Celeb, Toast of London and London Spy
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British spy thrillers
Matt on the Box: London Spy, Unforgotten, Josh and Peep Show
Hey folks, welcome back to another review of some recent TV highlights as I cast my withering gaze over what the small screen as offered us recently. We start with a drama that has been the subject of several news reports due to the single complaint one of its scenes...
Spooks, BBC1
Spooks went out with a plop this week, as dashing hero-spy Tom jumped into the sea after shooting his boss, pompous wally-spy Harry. It was a fitting end to a series which had become steadily more comicbook as the weeks rolled on, vying with ITV’s Ultimate Force for...
Spooks, BBC1
Last year’s first series of Spooks was credited with doubling the rate of applications for jobs in MI5, and it’s not hard to see why. Draw a pixel-thin line between jokey-glam espionage romp and hard-edged action thriller, and you’ll find Spooks balancing bang in the...
Cambridge Spies, BBC2, BBC4
For many years the names Philby, Burgess and Maclean (and later, Blunt) were synonymous with treachery in Britain, although you’d hardly know it from watching the first two parts of this dramatisation of their careers as Soviet spies. Instead it portrayed them...