Filming Locations
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Adlington Hall – Mill Lane, Adlington, , SK10 4LF Macclesfield
A lot of filming was done in a disused NHS health clinic in Wilmslow. Downstairs was remodelled as a vet’s surgery, while upstairs was converted in to the home of Sara.
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Interviews available online
10.2.2013 Telegraph | Independent (with Joanna Scanlan)
15.2.2013 Daily Mail
19.2.2013 TV Choice
20.2.2013 Whats on TV
22.2.2013 Readers’ Digest UK (thanks Hannah W) | Time Out London
23.2.2013 Buxton Advertiser/Lancashire Evening Post (its the same article in these two publications) | Daily Express Saturday Magazine
24.2.2013 Express & Star
26.2.2013 the Sun UK | Radio Times | Televisual (this article has some “making of” background information | Northern Echo
27.2.2013 Guardian UK
5.3.2013 Joanna Scanlan interviews in Unreality TV, Digital Spy and Female First; Dominic Coleman interview in italktelly.com
22.3.2013 Hi! Magazine
All of these interviews feature Sue Perkins, except where indicated otherwise.
Sue Perkins in the Daily Express Saturday Magazine interview
I’ve also known Nicola Walker, who plays Sara’s friend Justine, since I was 18 and working with her has made me love and admire her even more.
Press articles gallery
Screencaps
BBC Two’s website for the show has a gallery of pics for some of the stars for this show, including Nicola (see head pic above).
There is also a great gallery of pics on the MSN UK website (thanks, Sofie for the heads up) which features two lovely pics of Nicola.
In addition, we have these screencaps :
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Six Degrees
Steve Oram was in People Like Us [TV] with Nicola.
Sue Perkins has known Nicola since their days at Cambridge University (see the Bio page for more details). For a period after they left university, they even shared a flat (together with Emma Kennedy and Sarah Phelps). However, Nicola has never acted in a project involving Sue Perkins until now.
Jo Scanlan was a cast member in Cloud Nine [Stage].
Purchase the DVD from Amazon UK
The DVD box set for this show is released on 8 April 2013 and is Region 2 and 4 PAL compatible. A 10 minute Behind the Scenes Featurette is available on the DVD and Nicola appears in a short interview about the show.
I have just watched, in quick succession, Last Tango in Halifax followed by Heading Out and am astounded at the range of versatility (and brilliance) of Ms Walker: both serious angst and brilliantly comedic. Please, if you can, pass on to her my appreciation and thanks.
More and more work for Ms Walker, please.
Well, I’m just referring to the fact it breaks for a couple of weeks from 12-28 September – or at least according to the NT calendar listings!
I think it’s a good sign the sitcom’s lined up for BBC2 – less mainstream often equals better (imho)!
PS. if you’ve got a couple of young ones to take with you, why not take them to one of the pop-up workshops the NT’s running this year too…
A break of just two weeks is not long enough to film a new 6 episode comedy. They usually take one to two weeks to film one episode for a TV show (longer if a lot of special effects are involved), and that’s not counting the time spent on pre-production works, such as table read throughs :). I reckon Nicola will be gainfully employed at least till up to Christmas this year! And if there’s a series 2 for Last Tango in Halifax, then they might start filming that in the new year – no inside info, just wishing thinking aloud 😛 😀
Rest assured I wasn’t suggesting the entire sitcom would be filmed in 2 weeks – just remarking she’ll be transitioning from one to the other (and maybe doing both alongside – who knows!) I like your optimism on a 2nd series of Last Tango though 🙂
And then ‘segue’ from the sitcom filming back to the 2nd run of The Curious Incident! – a busy few months as you say! I bet they’ll have fun filming this though! Good catch!
There’s a second run of [i]The Curious Incident …[/i]??? Unlikely, IMHO, because once they’ve filmed the play as a NT Live event, they’ll just let that play in cinemas from time to time. I wouldn’t be disappointed by a second run, though, because I can then think about taking one or two younger members of the family to the play. 🙂