[Brighton] Grace ***May Contain Spoilers***

[Lenny Rider]

Oh god. This x1000


Was watching something on Netflix a few weeks ago, towards the end of the last episode there was a scene where two characters are in a seaside cafe discussing how it had originally been a meeting point for a ferry ride out of the country.


It was the cafe on Worthing Pier

To be fair doesn’t the Waverley leave from Worthing Pier?

So they could have left on that?

 

[The Albion Roar]

I'll be watching it in the couple of days. I hear that Norman Potting didn't make it into the shoot though, which is a shame

Norman wasn't in the first book. I don't believe he is in episode two either as we have been told he hasn't been cast yet.

Additional:
• The interior police station scenes were shot in the new Worthing tax office in Teville Gate, Worthing.
• On the back of filming two episodes of Grace, John Simm enjoyed himself so much, he is contemplating moving to Brighton.
• A small warehouse on Lancing trading estate was used in a scene. I didn't see it in episode one, so assume it will be for the next one.

 

[Marshy]

I really enjoyed it, Simm is class actor.

 

[Painter]

Having watched it last night, I recognised most of the location shoots, but which church did they use?

Ignore the other replies, it's actually in Kingston, outside Lewes

 

[Mellotron]

Watched the first hour last night - haven't read the book.

Definitely does feel a bit rushed, a few moments definitely would have paid off with more emotional impact if I felt like I actually knew the characters. TBH I'm mostly watching it to see bits of Brighton, a city I bloody miss a lot right now.

Simm is a good actor (will always love him for Human Traffic and Mad Dogs) but both me and Mrs Mello found some of the other performances/dialogue a bit poor.

 

[Shopes]

Norman wasn't in the first book. I don't believe he is in episode two either as we have been told he hasn't been cast yet.

Additional:
• The interior police station scenes were shot in the new Worthing tax office in Teville Gate, Worthing.
• On the back of filming two episodes of Grace, John Simm enjoyed himself so much, he is contemplating moving to Brighton.
• A small warehouse on Lancing trading estate was used in a scene. I didn't see it in episode one, so assume it will be for the next one.

Craig Parkinson has confirmed he's playing Norman Potting and he'll be in the second one.

 

[Worthing exile]

Craig Parkinson has confirmed he's playing Norman Potting and he'll be in the second one.

I hope he doesn't mind having his hair thinned for his comb over.

 

[The Albion Roar]

There or somewhere close - I assumed it was a top floor flat in the so-called New England Quarter, maybe a little further north? You could see Theobald House as well as St Barts but also New England House.

Jury's Inn looks a good call

View attachment 134917

Jury's Inn doesn't have a penthouse balcony.

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say it's the tall building on the corner of New England Street and the turnoff for Sainsbury's.

 

[The Albion Roar]

Craig Parkinson has confirmed he's playing Norman Potting and he'll be in the second one.

Got ya.

I think it may be Cassian Pewe who hasn't been cast then.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Craig Parkinson has confirmed he's playing Norman Potting and he'll be in the second one.

the bloody Caddy gets everywhere.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I watched it last night. Certainly enjoyable, but definitely an ITV production, I think the BBC would have done it better. Personally I would have preferred to have seen it spread over 3 or 4 hour-long episodes

 

[DIFFBROOK]

Might have missed it in the thread, but where was Michael Buried? Which woods?

And which pub was the stag do in?

 

[dolphins]

Jury's Inn doesn't have a penthouse balcony.

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say it's the tall building on the corner of New England Street and the turnoff for Sainsbury's.

Yes, I believe so. They were also using the ground floor of that building as production offices for a short while.

I saw an interview with Simm which said he had already moved to Brighton, and was starting the process of this before starting Grace.

 

[The Albion Roar]

Yes, I believe so. They were also using the ground floor of that building as production offices for a short while.

I saw an interview with Simm which said he had already moved to Brighton, and was starting the process of this before starting Grace.

Sensible, though those production offices are now at the racecourse.

 

[Badger Boy]

I really enjoyed it, Simm is class actor.

Some would say he's a Master.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Jury's Inn doesn't have a penthouse balcony.

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say it's the tall building on the corner of New England Street and the turnoff for Sainsbury's.

That one ?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

All Saints, Patcham - as in the book.

I'm not convinced it is. I got married there and lived just round the corner and while the inside shot certainly could be All Saints, the outside doesn't look like there.

 

[Notters]

Might have missed it in the thread, but where was Michael Buried? Which woods?

It's supposed to be on the Ashdown Forest. Very little of the first book is in Brighton, from what I remember.

 

[shingle]

Thanks for the compliment, but after my time. Hard to be sure about the dates, but guessing between about 64 and 68 for me. I loved it so much, it seemed like a long time. Clifford Dann, the Estate Agent, was choir master and organist. He had a Austin Princess Van den Plas R which seemed to me to make him the height of wealth and sophistication. Ken Brookes was his deputy and drove a Triumph Herald. Less impressive. Charlie Hazelgrove was the grumpy verger with a heart of gold and mints in his pocket in case you felt a bit dicky tummy at church. Choirboy pay, especially for weddings, half a crown each wedding and up to 3 or 4 on a good Saturday, kept me in 45's, Airfix kits, Jamboree bags and fireworks. Good times.

Absolutely spot on.

I remember Clifford Dann and Ken Brookes and of course Charlie who's used to tell us of his time in the navy in WW2 and how after his ship was sunk, he was in the water and vowed that if he made it he would devote his life to the church and God, He also had the loudest voice in the church as well. Re the weddings it was still half a crown a wedding in the early seventies and I remember doing 5 on one Saturday and converting ten of my shillings into one of those old brown ten bob notes, also Christmas was a real money spinner with Carol Singing around the newly built blocks of flats along the London Road. Good times indeed and it seems a world away.

 

[Silverhatch]

I watched it last night. Certainly enjoyable, but definitely an ITV production, I think the BBC would have done it better. Personally I would have preferred to have seen it spread over 3 or 4 hour-long episodes

Think the pandemic, and the desperate need for new content, probably forced the hand of the producers. I enjoyed it - but as someone else said it felt rushed. A big ITV drama with a proper lead would, in normal times, have had more time to breathe/evolve because other stuff on the slate would be being developed/shot at the same time.