How did you get into watching Spooks?

[lottanyman]

I must admit I bought the series 7 DVDs before having ever watched a single episode of Spooks before just because of Richard Armitage.
Then I put the DVDs away as I didn’t really have time to watch and effectively forgot about them until only a few weeks later German TV started showing Spooks, of course beginning with series 1 and I got hooked. Watched the first three series on TV (and parallely my series 7 DVDs) and then switched over to all the other series on DVD because one episode per week is not enough of course;-)
Series 9 then was the first series I watched directly (well on the iPlayer) when it was first broadcast.
Funny actually that I found out about Spooks because of Richard Armitage but then he was not necessarily the main reason to watch it and definitely not my favourite character on the show.