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The show has been re-named MI-5
- The show has been re-named MI-5 for American broadcasts on the A&E network, and each episode is edited down to approx 44 minutes to include commercials in a 60 minute time slot.
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In the United States, the show is broadcast under the title MI-5. In Canada, the programme originally aired as MI-5, but later aired on BBC Canada as Spooks. The series continued with a film, Spooks: The Greater Good, which was released on 8 May 2015.
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The bigger thing (again, in the USA) is that the first association with the word "spook" is being scared. A show called "Spooks" without context sounds to me like a corny horror show. MI-5 is simple and unoriginal, but it gets the point across.
In Belgium Spooks was broadcast on the Flemish public channel Canvas and on the French Belgian channel RTBF. In the Czech Republic, it is called MI5 and is aired on ČT1. In Israel it was aired under two different names (MI-5 and Spooks) on the Arutz 2 Channel 2 and on cable.
MI 5, or simply five, is the name of one of the main security services which protect the United Kingdom. The main team of Spooks portray fictional versions of the this team. MI 5 performs internal security for the United Kingdom, dealing with threats to the security of the country that come from within it. MI 6 deal with external threats that ...
Aug 4, 2004 · For the American audience though, the show has been renamed MI5, as the word 'spooks' is more readily associated with the CIA over there. Steven asks:
Aug 2, 2020 · It’s been nearly nine years since the spies of MI5 solved their final case on the BBC drama Spooks. The show was one of the most popular and enduring dramas of the 00s, running for ten series...
In the United States, partly due to the racial connotations of the word 'spook' in reference to African-Americans, it was renamed MI-5. Although the series was in development before 24, it was released after it, and has similar stylistic flourishes, like heavy use of Split Screen.
