Spooks The slickly-produced British spy thriller's eighth season premiere on BBC One on Wednesday in the UK kept the show's consistent ratings up - drawing 6.01 million viewers and a 24.8% audience shate. Comparatively the previous three season premieres pulled in 5.89m (24.9%), 6.25m (27.7%) and 5.5m (23.4%) viewers respectively. T Variety reports Anya Epstein and Dan Futterman are set to produce a drama series about the gender transformation of a woman into a man for HBO.