Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Filming at Breakfast

OK, so now the film crew want to use our front door for the next-door-neighbour character to come out of (what is it that tells me that this is what they were intending to do all along?). And we are coming down to breakfast and the director is in the front doorway and asking, Do we mind if they just put a camera there in the doorway? And of course that means that the actor needs to come right in, along with the lighting crew, and the next thing you know there are arc lights in the hall and cables snaking to the power points in the living room...

But before that, it's the rehearsal, and I'm coming into the hallway and who is stepping in through the front door but John McArdle who played the main character in my radio series The Circle, and, it turns out, is playing the next-door neighbour today! This is when I find out that the series being filmed, The Choir Project, has been written by Debbie Horsfield, whose Making Out was perhaps of the best drama series I've ever seen on telly...

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