On Knightly, I turned to my wife and said how good Keira looks for her age. Then we both realized (after checking online) that she's still 39, instead of the late 40s I assumed. She's just been around forever -- was 17 when she did Bend it Like Beckham, 18 for the first Pirates of the Caribbean.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of the spate of shows are definitely the spy version of copaganda, though as someone who's also just a fan of the genre from reading Le Carre and Deighton growing up, I suspect there's also just a hunger for them in general.