The Grand Spooks Tour 2010

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(10-12-2009 06:42 AM)almh Wrote:  

(09-12-2009 10:59 PM)YourFutureMuse Wrote:  

(09-12-2009 04:33 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  

(09-12-2009 04:20 PM)almh Wrote:  Oh that's not good. How on earth am I meant to get up to Birmingham to see filming? (More to the point locations Beatriz!!) and also why would I want to? At least for London it's close enough for me to make a day trip of it and I can go by myself, whereas Birmingham I have to go with my parents :rants on and on for ages:

I'm not sure even Spooks could make me want to go to Birmingham !! The thought of Harry and Ruth house hunting together in Aston or West Brom, sends a shudder down my spine.

Hey, what's wrong with Birmingham Not everything should happen in London... Birmingham is the second city after all! I love Birmingham, I would actually be able to go see filming if it was there!!

Yes, but it's Birmingham. It's far away (for me - I realise that for quite a few people on this forum London is far away as well!) And really, what are they going to do? Say at the beginning of the first episode "Oh look we've been relocated to Birmingham?" We'll lose all our landmarks for location spotting! No St Pauls, no Millenium Bridge, Tower of London, Queen's House to name a couple.

And most importantly, where are Harry and Ruth going to do their off-site chats?

EDIT: Just checked and discovered that Birmingham is 150-ish miles from London -- not a distance the actors are likely to want to drive each day (according to google 3 hours each way), which means they'll have to be housed and fed in B'ham during shooting. It's hard to believe that cost will be offset by shooting outside London, but I guess someone at Kudos has crunched the numbers. Wonder how the cast will feel about that?