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Spooks, called MI-5 when it airs in the states, is one of the best programs on today.

If you are a fan of 24, you will like this show. My only advise is to get the dvd's and start watching from season one. A & E has the rights to run them here, and they butcher the show to death while squeezing in all the commercials.

Unfortunately it looks like MI5 is actually off the air in the US. A&E was buying it season by season, they haven't announced a run date for season four yet or added it to their long term show schedules, and they removed references to it from their website. If we in the US want to see the show, it looks like we'll have to wait for the DVD's.

Personally I thought the show went downhill a bit after Series 2 anyway. It started out great, but by the end of Season 3 was getting a bit touchy feely. When all of the original actors started bailing, it was probably a sign that something was going very wrong with the show.

I'd probably watch seasons 4 and 5 if they aired in the US, but I'm not going to shell out for the DVD's. It IS far better written than 24 and gives a much more realistic view of what the life of a modern spy and counter-terrorist agent are like. It's fascinating stuff, even if the story was getting a bit stale by the end of that last US season.