for his editing work, and Jennie Muskett for Original Television Music in the Craft awards, but lost to Daniel Deronda and The Forsyte Saga respectively. The first series was also nominated for three Royal Television Society Awards, including Drama Series, although it lost out to Clocking Off. Howard Brenton and David Wolstencroft were nominated for the Writer award, but lost to Peter Bowker's work on television film Flesh and Blood. In the Craft awards, Julian Slater, Nigel Heath, Michael Fentum and Dan Morgan were nominated in Best Sound in Drama. The first series was well received by fans. At the end of 2002, the BBC released a "Best of" viewer polls on its website. Spooks was voted the third best drama, beaten only by lesbian period drama Tipping the Velvet, which starred Keeley Hawes, and American action series 24. However, Spooks was also voted the third worst drama. Firth and Macfadyen were listed in the "Best Actor" category, being voted twenty-first, and fifth, respectively. Macfadyen was also voted the sixth "hunkiest male". Meanwhile, in the "Best Actress" category, Agutter and Hawes were voted twenty-sixth and second, respectively. Agutter, Faulkner and Hawes were also respectively voted the thirtieth, sixteenth and second "most fanciable females". The Tom and Ellie relationship was seen by viewers as the fourth best couple in television for the year, and Patrick McCann as the sixth best villain. The closing scenes of the series finale were voted the second "Favourite Moment", behind the reveal of Nina Myers as a mole in 24. Home video release The series was first released on DVD in the United Kingdom (Region 2) on 16 June 2003. It was later released in Australia (Region 4) on 18 August 2003, and in the United States (Region 1, where it is known as MI-5: Volume 1) on 13 January 2004. The box set consists of all six episodes of the first series over three discs and 1.78:1 Anamorphic PAL widescreen format. The box set includes an array of special features. Each episode has its own audio commentary track. In addition there are numerous interviews with the cast and crew members of the series, discussing the origins and development of the show and the purpose of the main characters. There are also deleted scenes, image galleries, an explained list of MI5 terms, series credits (Spooks is a programme that does not include credits in its episodes),