Dumseagull
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[Brighton] Roy Grace coming to ITV next year
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That’s being filmed at my Aunties house (right pic)
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Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
If I've just read some high brow metaphor ridden intellectually challenging, taken me 6 months to get through tomb of a book, I do like nothing better than picking up a Roy Grace novel I got in a charity shop for 75p.
Peter James is the literary equivilent of the Peter and Jane books aimed at 6-7 year olds . Man can't write and he's a complete tit face . Probably make good TV though - so long as theres a decent script writer
Fignon's Ponytail
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Film trucks & crew taken over the car park at the Smugglers Rest in Telscombe this morning as I rode past.
Marshy
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the guy that did Endeavour is doing it so it should be half decent. And with the Brighton backdrop whats not to like.
I have read some shit by Stephen King and Thomas Harris in recent months.... so even the greats are capable of the odd bit of tripe.
looks as if they may be filming in and around Shoreham too. The disused car park on the old civic building site is full of craft service trucks.
Norman Potting
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Fame at last - can't wait for the royalties to roll in
studio150
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Fame at last - can't wait for the royalties to roll in
Surprised you weren't asked to play your self in the series.
Marshy
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Fame at last - can't wait for the royalties to roll in
Do we know who is playing Norman... or will he be cut out as not PC enough hehe
Norman Potting
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,,,Scarily it is nearly eight years ago that this was first mooted. At the time I posted on this esteemed board and predicted that Johnny Depp was mooted to play me. I assume that the delay in the production going ahead is due to his packed schedule.
nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
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Lets just hope that they don't play fast and loose with the geography. Thinking back on all the TV series set in Brighton (Cuffs, Sugar Rush, Killer-net) it was always very off putting and removes you from the show when the characters run down a road, or flight of steps on Brighton Seafront, only to get the the bottom of them or emerge in Shoreham, or in Sugar Rush take a taxi from the Palace Pier and go past the Pavillion 10 mins later(although that isnt such a stretch these days!)
I know what you mean, if you are from the area and know it very well but this can be annoying.
The Fear ( 2012 ) 4 part crime drama set in Brighton, in one scene someone was driving through Brighton but I didn’t recognise the area they ended up in, it was Bristol but supposed to be Brighton.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
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I agree continuity in geography is very annoying when you know the area being filmed in. In one episode of Cuffs a young lad ran away from police on Maderia Drive only to end up on the top of the Teville Gate multistory in Worthing a few minutes later. That show was all over the place with their police chases as well, often going up and down the same stretch of Mill Hill over and over again in the same chase.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
This happens in all dramas and films, it just because you know the local geography that you notice the lack of continuity.
TheCheekyBlinder
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Saw them filming outside Dirty Harry on Sydney St. yesterday. Didn't see any dialogue but will be watching it for sure.
Not Andy Naylor
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Morse: Take us back to the station, Lewis.
Lewis: Right, sir.
Morse: And make sure to go the long way round, on the maddest possible detour through Oxford city centre and past as many colleges as possible, and the Radcliffe Camera too if you can. We've got to flog this nonsense to the Americans, you know.
Black Hill
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- Apr 24, 2020
- 72
Killer-Net featured a disused railway tunnel that was supposed to be Kemp Town. But it wasn’t. It was somewhere in Kent.
However it prompted a resurgence of interest in the Old Kemp Town railway.
- Oct 17, 2008
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I've read all the novels (and seen the plays) and Peter James absolutely invokes the schizophrenic geography trope relentlessly.
For all the research he puts into police procedure and whatnot, he really takes liberties.
One bit stands out where Grace is taking his morning run along the seafront, before turning onto New England Street.
That said, as a fan of these stories, I will be watching this no question
For all the research he puts into police procedure and whatnot, he really takes liberties.
One bit stands out where Grace is taking his morning run along the seafront, before turning onto New England Street.
That said, as a fan of these stories, I will be watching this no question