David Wolstencroft wants to bring back BBC drama 'Spooks'.
Keeley Hawes
The show's creator would love to reboot the programme with more women making up part of a "new younger writing team", and more "racial diversity in the cast".
He told Radio Times.com: "I would make a very big argument for bringing the show back even with a new younger writing team.
"I think we would have a greater racial diversity in the cast. I'd want more women writing and directing it - it was quite a male-heavy show. It's the way everything fell at the time."
The 50-year-old screenwriter thinks this time around the characters would have "different expectations" of what the government are capable of.
He added: "The stakes would be even higher. These characters would perhaps have more different allegiances and different expectations of what the government could do."
David is also in favour of potentially taking the new series away from London, where it was previously based.
He said: "The stories would come from different places, and maybe would be outside London."
'Spooks' ran for 10 series from 2002 until 2011 and won a BAFTA in 2003 for Best Drama.
The show - which attracted seven million viewers at the height of it's popularity - was so successful it was made into a 2015 feature film, 'Spooks: The Greater Good'.
Original cast members include 'Bodyguard' star Keeley Hawes, who played Zoe Reynolds, and her real life husband, 'Quiz' actor Matthew Macfadyen, who appeared as Tom Quinn.
Last month, the BBC announced 'Spooks' was returning to the iPlayer.
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