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!

• Spooks episode 1 of 8
• Spooks Feature

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

005 Spooks (2010) > Season 9 > Production Stills

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:
001 Fanart & Wallpaper > Wallpaper (1280 x 800)
005 Icons > by Natalie

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

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.

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‘.

Source: TV Broadway World

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

I added 11 additional pictures from last week’s ‘Spooks‘ set. Some of them are a bit similar to those we’ve already got (I tried to arrange that the most similar ones are displayed next to each other) but we can also now see who the legs of the guy sitting on a chair belong to: to another new member of the cast for Season 9: Max Brown.

Edit: Replaced the photos from Sophia’s 1999 theatre performance in ‘The Four Alice Bakers‘ with untagged versions.

Some pictures of Sophia Myles on today’s set of her new project, the BBC series ‘Spooks‘, have surfaced online. It’s very exciting to get yet another glimpse at what her character looks like! Enjoy!

013 Spooks (2010) > Season 9 > On Set

edit April 13: replaced some all of them with better versions

I added some clippings related to Sophia Myles joining ‘Spooks‘ to the gallery. The one from yesterday’s “Daily Star” features an actual on set picture of Sophia Myles as her as of yet unnamed spy character with fellow new cast member Max Brown in the background. Yay! Thanks Lorna for scanning the other two snippets from today’s “The Sun” and the current “TV & Satellite Week”.

I also added 3 new beautiful banners made by Chrissy.

003 Various Clippings 2010
003 Fanart > Banner