The programme information for Spooks series 9 has officially been revealed!

The BBC Press Office have released this information alongside an interview with Richard Armitage who plays Lucas North in the show.

The date and time of airing has yet to be confirmed but it will be in the week of September 18-24 and we will keep you posted with all the latest Spooks developments!

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New pictures of Sophia Myles as Beth Bailey in episode 1 & 2 of the upcoming 9th season of ‘Spooks‘ have surfaced.

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As the recently added Japanese Scan revealed, more pictures were taken of Sophia Myles when she visited Japan in April 2004 to promote ‘Thunderbirds‘ than simply at the Press Conference. Today, I stumbled upon some lovely pictures of Sophia Myles talking to the press about her role as Lady Penelope.

006 Events in 2004 > ‘Thunderbirds’ Promotion in Japan

Sophia Myles finished filming ‘Spooks‘ after 5 months this past Saturday! Now, we just have to wait to see what she’s been up to for a few more months – maybe the series will come back to UK TV screens as early as late September 2010!

There are some pictures from one week ago on Facebook of Sophia as Beth Bailey on set of ‘Spooks‘ playing with Ed Hall’s cute dog. A huge thank you to ‘Spooks‘ fan Emma for sharing them with all of us on her Facebook profile.

You may remember that Ed Hall – who directed the final episodes of this upcoming 9th series of ‘Spooks‘ – also directed Sophia in ‘Marple: Sleeping Murder‘ and she has since been quoted as calling him “super bright”. The other of the overall 8 episodes were directed by Michael Caton Jones, Julian Holmes and Paul Whittington.

I’ve added fanart by Chrissy & Natalie of those Facebook pictures:
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Thanks to the tip of a visitor I replaced the scan of a promotional picture from the Australian ‘The Abduction Club‘ DVD with a better quality picture. This is one of my favourite pictures from my favourite Sophia movie.

Also, some of the episodes of ‘Spooks (MI-5)‘ Season 9 are now listed on The Internet Movie Database. Thus we now know the full name of Sophia’s character: Beth Bailey.

001 The Abduction Club (2002) > Promotional Photoshoot

I’m very sorry for the lack of updates recently, but news about Sophia Myles has been slow since she’s ultra-busy filming ‘Spooks‘. Before the show starts airing in the fall I plan on bringing the site 100 % up to date – so stay tuned!

In the meantime I opened a fanlisting Smile: A Sophia Myles Fanlisting which can be found here. The gorgeous layout was generously donated by message board member Natalie! Thank you so much! Feel free to head over & join!

Get ready for the return of ‘Moonlight‘ to your television – in the US! Starting tomorrow, The CW Network is airing the existing episodes every Thursday at 9pm. They dedicated part of their website to ‘Moonlight‘ and also uploaded a new trailer to YouTube.

I finally managed to solve the problem with the site’s Newsletter. There were too many users registered for it – mostly spam user accounts though. I deleted all of them and installed a plugin to prevent spam accounts – and voilà! The Newsletter is working again! To be notified via email whenever there’s a new post don’t hesitate to register (again)! Thank you.

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Sophia Myles is back on US TV screens this summer! As of June 3 the CW network will air the existing ‘Moonlight‘ episodes on Thursday evenings 9-10 pm ET – after re-airing the first season of ‘The Vampire Diaries‘.

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Many thanks Ali for alerting me to a blog post on the TV Choice website, where journalist Helen Childs reports about the experience of interviewing the Spooks actors recently. The actual interviews will be released in autumn when the show starts airing.

This confirms that Sophia’s role in the British series will indeed be as an MI-5 agent and there are some interesting new details about her character. She plays Beth (interestingly enough) who is based on a real life character. Despite wearing some impressive heels in at least one scene (pics) she will not be seen running in them. Remembering what she said in the January 2009 Podcast about heels & running I’m actually very relieved to hear that.

• Speaking to Spooks, TV Choice – Blog, April 28, 2010