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Viewers missing Spooks after its recent demise will not have long to wait for a new spy drama. The BBC has commissioned a new "international espionage" series — from the makers of Spooks.

Independent producer Kudos is producing the new eight-part drama, called Nemesis, which will air towards the end of next year on BBC1.

Nemesis centres around Sam, a member of an elite private intelligence firm who survives an assassination attempt that may have been ordered by her colleagues.

Sam is played by Grey's Anatomy and Alias actor Melissa George. Mistresses actor Adam Rayner features as Sam's colleague and love interest.

Nemesis has been created and written by The X-Files and Strike Back writer and producer Frank Spotnitz.

Spotnitz said: "I'm incredibly excited about the ambition of this series. It's got action on a cinematic scale, huge story twists and turns, and intriguing characters who are both emotionally and morally complex."

The BBC drama commissioning controller, Ben Stephenson, said: "Melissa George is a fantastic choice to play BBC1's new leading lady known as Sam, a complex and mysterious Bourne-style female spy unlike anyone we've seen on TV before."

Filming has started and will take place on location in Scotland, London and Morocco.

Kudos is making the show, in association with Big Light Productions, for BBC1 and HBO's Cinemax channel.

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