French article yes it is in French but the last paragraph is important. Thanks to Isa for this article find.
www.slate.fr/story/6955/series-televisees-mi-5-le-monde-ne-leur-suffit-pasTranslation:
Forget Jack Bauer one instant and the high-sounding terrorist threats of 24. Far from Hollywood, in a corner of small British screen, the agents of at the Mi of 5 persevere since seven seasons to conjugate show and realism, to return its letters of nobility in a type, the spying, historically closely linked to geopolitical stakes.
Too often compared with his American cousin, at the Mi of 5 which follows the eventful daily of a team of the internal secret services of Its Majesty - at the Mi of 6 of James Bond being in charge of outside threats - made a name by sticking on actuality. Since his first season, broadcast in 2002 on BBC and two years later on Channel More *, series is applied to fly over all terrorisms, over all threats, of al Qaïda to the Irish, ecological extremists, altermondialistes, etc. Every time, the same research of realism. " I imagined at the Mi of 5 as an entertainment first of all, but with a correct background factuellement ", explains David Wolstencroft, his creator.
" Before every season, we sit down around a table, producers, scriptwriters, film directors, and we discuss what makes the actuality, of what we read in the press, on Internet, etc, follows Andrew Woodhead, producer since the second season of the Mi of 5. Then, we try to cast in future, and to make questions or threats which seem to us credible of subjects for series. We are haunted by big geopolitical questions, because they have not only a political or economic impact, but because they touch everybody. "
So, the season six of Spooks (the original title of series) staged a conflict between the United States, Great Britain and Iran, with in its centre the enlarging likelihood of an Iranian nuclear threat. Pressures, traitrises, blows below the belt, smiles faced with cameras and handles of hands between British authorities and Iranian ambassador (represented by the Frenchman Simon Abkarian), at the Mi of 5 a worrying realistic breath, just like future perhaps not so moved away was applied to disseminate, in the middle of a more unreliable tale.
For its seventh season, series is interested in Russia, a subject " more old-school, but we had gone around "classical" terrorisms it was therefore necessary to find something unpublished and Russia had its charm ", explains Peter Firth, who represents Harry Pearce, indéboulonnable leader of the section, historical face of series. However, in the middle of this " second Cold War " which would not have dissatisfied James Bond, series bifurcates, the time of an episode, on a much more burning subject. The agents of at the Mi of 5 stalk a mad trader, there decided to cause a worldwide crash and to cast the international financial system. A written episode in spring on 2008, for a long time before crisis. Because at the Mi of 5 seems to have the strange capacity to precede actuality, to guess that the world reserves us.
" At the mi of 5 play with likelihood, rest on one "if " and "perhaps ", and tomb sometimes fair, explains Miranda Raison, who represents the agent Jo Portman, the most sensitive of the heroines of series. The scriptwriters are not fortune-tellers but they know how to take the pulse of actuality, international tensions, situations likely to degenerate. " " They do their best to stay in the listening of what takes place in the world and to find stories not on what has just taken place, but on what risks arriving, follows Peter Firth. In two or three resumptions, they have just aimed. Let us say that they have was finally lucky, manner of speaking... "
Manner of speaking in effect, since the most famous of these "prophecies" has nothing of a joke. In summer, 2005, the team of the Mi of 5 turns an episode of its fourth season. The agents of His Majesty have to face up a series it of Islamic attacks in the subway of London. Two weeks later, on July 7th, scenario becomes reality. Episode will be rewritten and, not to shock the viewers, they will content themselves with the single bomb, put down on a market.
Sailing in the wings power, at the Mi of 5 delivers a dark vision and without concessions of political games, notably tensions between the different agencies of security and a government anxious with saving appearance. A not very gratifying vision for the politicians, « but terrifically sexier than reality, and therefore in one direction gratifying », Peter Firth has a good time. Enough to make a political work of the Mi of 5? « We are only noticing, insists Hermione Norris, alias Ros Myers, agent of ground most tested by the team. I do not think that we would be on our place if we tried to report whatever or to give our opinion. » « At the mi of 5 does not defend a point of view of left or right, but this does not mean that she does not touch the viewers in their firm belief », correct Miranda Raison.
Series prepares an eighth season more than ever established in actuality nowadays. " It will be the first one without George W. Bush in the White House, analyse Andrew Woodhead. It is a major change for us, and a very good starting point to develop our cogitation: the world and the threats in what he must make face he is going to differ with Barack Obama? "
Finished Al-Qaïda, overexploited. Place in financial crisis. « We are interested of loan in consequences of crisis and in those who try to be of benefit of his reverberate to become rich or change the equilibrium of powers, explains Hermione Norris. To think about it well, financial crisis is also terrible as the threats of Al-Qaïda. It is a less simple, more delicate subject to be recalled, and I think that at the Mi of 5 one of the rare series is to be able to afford this type of scenario. » Already envisaged for 2010, the ninth season, promise Peter Firth, will be « even more political. » Proof that the agents of at the Mi of 5 are not only in the service of His Majesty, but also of neurones of the viewers...
DOING A HAPPY DANCE FOR S9!!!!!!! Totally going to move to GB! Look out Spooks crew I'm coming!!!!