Hit BBC1 drama Spooks proved that age has not yet wearied it. Starring Richard Armitage and Hermione Norris, the spy thriller returned for its eighth series in 2009 with a solid six million viewers tuning into the first episode alone.
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Being Human
BBC3, Touchpaper TV
Chronicling the somewhat complicated lives of a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost living in Bristol, twenty-something drama Being Human won a recommission for a second series on the strength of its first run last year. It is written by Toby Whithouse.
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The Street
BBC1, ITV Studios
The third series of Jimmy McGovern’s hit drama saw six new stories play out, starring Bob Hoskins as a publican standing up to a local hardman, Anna Friel as a single mum trying to do the right thing for her sons and Timothy Spall as a cash-strapped cabbie.
