The premise for this series is that a nuclear bomb has gone off in London during the 2012 Olympics, and the series follows a set of agents recruited in the aftermath trying to do what the Spooks lot usually do, stopping terrorists performing their nefarious deeds. The episodes are shorter than those of the original series, clocking in at 50 minutes rather than an hour, and accordingly there seems to be less that happens in the episodes.

So far the plots in the episodes haven’t been particularly enthralling, although they have set the wheels in motion with the requisite long-running plot. Unfortunately this, along with a number of other things in the first two episodes, have been rather clichéd.

I’ll probably still end up watching the other episodes in the series (if only because I’ve set my BT Vision box to record the series) and perhaps it will get better, but I’ve not really got high hopes after this first pair of episodes.

Some of the songs are fantastic (I turned in to hear Huey Lewis & The News – ‘Power of Love’ from one of my favourite films – Back to the Future), and while I enjoyed listening to it, but this is by no means a list that I’d agree with in its entirety.

To my mind the track from High School Musical shouldn’t have been in there. It was a straight to DVD film that clearly doesn’t merit its inclusion in this list. I’m not too sure about the inclusion of the South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut track either; especially as high up the list as 23. Of course, that would probably have been replaced by a song from Team America: World Police had the show been broadcast at a later hour.

Aside from these inclusions that I disagree with, there’s a whole manner of songs that are – in my opinion – missing. Where was Steppenwolf – ‘Born to be Wild’ from Easy Rider? or Kenny Loggins – ‘Highway to the Dangerzone’ from Top Gun; both classic songs. Of course I’d have liked to hear anything from another of my favourite films – The Blues Brothers as well. I suppose that in order to make the songs selected appeal to a greater range of people they decided to sacrifice some classics.