Why only 8 episodes?

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Speaking of Australia (not a seamless link), I was reading recently about budget cuts at the BBC. Naturally one takes this into account when thinking of Spooks. But today in my paper I read Spooks was singled out as one a quite a few BBC success stories and that these are making the BBC a lot of money.

Conversely Rupert Murdoch's son was talking a few weeks ago about the need to keep the BBC more slimline. Naturally the heir to the Sky fortune would say such things and one is worried that Cameron, should be be the next PM, will try and side with the Murdoch clan and reduce the scale of the BBC's power, thus affecting our dear show in some way.

Now before this all gets really confusing I also read today that another one of the Murdoch clan owns Kudos, which makes Spooks! So are we right to be worried, or what? Sorry, yeah it is just confusing.