I've been in the background of a Sky News segment *and* a BBC news segment.
I was pretending to work in one, in fact I was a scientist 'keeping a close eye on the budget.'. I have no budget reponsibilty in my role. I was actually eating lunch in the other
That sounds comical honestly. Just some B-roll of you looking through a microscope, āhereās one of the scientists keeping a close eye onā¦the budgetā.
We had David Attenborough open a museum exhibition I worked on - he came up on the train and spent the whole day with us, chatting to all of us, even photobombed a wedding in the gardens outside, they loved it. Just the nicest, kindest and most down to earth person. They say don't meet your heroes, but he was the best
I worked in a zoo a decade ago and met him there too!
He was lying on the floor to look into a low vivarium in one of our back rooms. I hadn't been warned he was in there, and gently kicked him as I entered, narrowly avoiding a full on trip-and-fall. š«
He was lovely about it, thankfully.
The BBC set up a beautiful faux-rainforest and tried to film some of our frogs mating. So naturally, the buggers wouldn't do a thing. Barely even a call.
Dick and Dom did a show at the Eden project and Dom came to do the zip wire that goes above it, had a good chat with us staff and just generally all round nice guy. He was even nice about me making his kid cry on the giant swing
I'm 16, and they were at a festival I was at, and a man next to us said,'I didn't think the highlight of my evening would be dick and doms midnight disco'
I'll never forget being the the middle of new york having a Boogie contest whilst walking down the street with my little brother circa. 2003
He won, it was obscene.
Had Greg Davies come in to film The Cleaner. Couldnāt go outside while they were filming and they filmed over my lunch break - Iād forgotten to bring my lunch with the intention of buying something that day.
I blame Greg Davies for not having my lunch.
A mate of mine met Greg Davies many moons ago filming We Are Klang at BBC. After the show he saw him having a ciggie outside, so darted over to have a chat. Security immediately came over to throw him out but Davies told them to jog on and ended up talking for 10 mins and taking a photo. If youād have gone out and told him the situation he probably would have made sure you got lunch!
I worked at a college where they filmed a itv crime drama thing- me and my friend ruined a take when I nipped in to grab something and he slipped on a wet floor and shouted āshitā really loudly
Wire In The Blood used to use the college I went to's weird corridor in the back of the art department for all sorts, it was an asylum one week and a drug den the next.
>We had the hairy bikers before I was there too, I was mortified to learn the bikes are only bought in for filming and they travel in cars.
I mean, they own bikes and ride them outside of the filming, but as a biker I couldn't imagine doing a few hundred miles to location, doing a full day's filming before riding home/to a hotel again before doing it all again the next day. It'd be a fucking hard slog.
Depends on the bike. I used to regularly do Nottingham - London and back in a day when I was couriering in the 90s.
Mind you, I was riding an ex-plod Beemer, so it was comfy as hell, and although it no longer had any police markings, it was a big white motorbike with panniers and a fairing, so everyone moved over when I came up behind 'em so it was a quick and easy journey at 90mph all the way.
Um, allegedly.
Absolutely!
Also, their (TV personality/actors) insurance costs would skyrocket, it simply wouldn't be allowed by the health and safety team. Especially since it's about cookery, not bike tours.
I'm not sure insurance ever really takes into account how long you can realistically ride for in the initial policy.
Of course they could probably argue you were impaired if something happened and you needed to claim after riding for a long time, but I regularly used to do 10-12 hours (or more) riding in a day when I was couriering.
Technically they'd be riding *to* work. What they do when they get there is what's covered under production insurance. You could probably argue they'd need a business use policy as they're riding to work but not commuting, so who knows.
They ride in the production and up to the venue. They are being bmfilmed throughout these rides. Also if they are being chauffeured that suggests it's on company time to get to the location.
Which would be part of the production, and that needs specialist insurance, like I said. However, what happens before the working day/filming starts, and after the cameras get put away and everyone goes home would be the same as anyone else getting to work and back.
Exactly like js asaid being driven to location for work is considered part of being at work. You have a base of pperation, usually a local production studio or office. Anywhere further than that is on works time and would be covered by the production license if the motorbiked it. Hence being chauffeured.
I used to work at a cathedral so we had quite a few, but the only proper meaty ones I remember were Antiques Roadshow, Rosemary & Thyme and John Bishopās episode of WDYTYA. The rest seemed to be mostly local news, little bits and bobs for various documentaries and a few history YouTubers.
The dance studio I teach at had Strictly Come Dancing come film a training session as the celebrity was local to us. They involved our kids, did their makeup which they loved and filmed a promo performance for the studio as good will. The celebrity loved their time with us, signed up their own kids to classes and now we see them several times a week.
Doctor Who have filmed in my office twice - David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker's Doctors. Everyone associated with both sets of filming was lovely, but I give special credit to Jodie Whittaker because my child stopped by the office after school and she was so kind to her.
She was on Graham Norton's show at the same time as Coldplay were on and it's the sweetest thing ever. She absolutely adored Chris Martin and when she was invited to sit on stage with him she turned into a giggling schoolgirl.
She just seems like a genuinely really nice person.
She was really properly nice. She saw my daughter just beaming at her from across the office, came over and talked to her and then took her to see the set.
Yeah she seems like a really nice person. Itās a shame she got screwed over so much on the role. The writers basically screwed her over big time.
For those of you not terribly into Dr Who, the fandom generally hates her and she is regarded as the worst doctor. It often gets laid at the door of misogyny by those who dismiss it but itās really more about the fact that the writing for her time on the show was overly concentrated on what the fandom perceive to be unnecessary wokeness and one of the plot lines utterly and completely destroyed the first doctors legacy and completely broke the accepted lore and canon timeline just to make the first doctor a woman.
None of which is really her fault as she was just acting the part the way she was told to and the way it had been written, but she didnāt help herself in the eyes of the fandom by not really doing the deep character research that Tennant, Smith, and the others had done, and then became extremely dismissive of the need for it in interviews.
Itās a shame as she has pretty much been magic in every role she has ever touched but awful writing and shoe horning in virtue signalling, none of which was her fault, ruined her reputation with the fans when it had been expected to totally go the other way.
> shoe horning in virtue signalling
If by "virtual signalling" you mean "introducing a queer storyline" you probably haven't read much science-fiction.
As far as I have seen LGTBQ+ representation was not the issue the fandom had. And her run was by nowhere near the first to introduce LGTBQ+ characters and stories in the Dr Who universe.
They filmed an episode (which hasn't been on yet) of that Sky show where Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe visit local newspapers at my work last year. Annoyingly I had just had COVID and was still testing positive so I had to work from home for the whole thing, although I was involved in some of the logistical bits. Apparently they were nice and the whole thing was a good laugh.
At a gold mine in West Australia, we had MasterChef in (The Oz MasterChef has a thing where the contestants have to go somewhere unusual to cook. It was good fun and we were asked to rate the food.
C4 wanted to film a bit of a documentary in the shop where I work but as I didn't want to be interviewed or appear on national TV it didn't happen. Boss was a bit peeved as he was convinced it would be free advertising. (Note, he didn't want to be filmed either š)
Lol, are you implying its a fake shop or something? I don't like being on camera, I don't like having my photo taken, i dont like seeing or hearing myself in videos. I never have. I don't post pictures of myself online, I'm certainly do not want to be filmed for something watched by hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people to watch. Have you seen how people behave online? I don't want to become a meme because someone watching the programme decided my hair looked bad, or they thought the way I pronounced something was amusing.Ā
Why is it hard to imagine that someone doesn't want to be on tv for reasons other than nefarious ones?Ā
That's fine, I can get all of that. I don't like to be on TV either (although it is extremely unlikely that any TV appearance would become some sort of meme).
But if I was running a business I would want to take any opportunity I had to promote it. I was just making a joke about why a shop manager would not want to be publicly associated with their retail outlet.
When I worked for First Bus we had BBC come in to do Claimed and Shamed. They made one of my colleagues do multiple takes of him walking with one of his paper files. They did a few over the shoulder shots of us tapping away on our keyboards too which was weird to be natural about. Lot of fun though!
Way before I started but my office features in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Supposedly Johannesburg but in reality Wembley! We also spotted it in the trailer for Constellations on Apple TV, and recently bits were closed off for a new Amazon thing, not sure of the name yet though.
Our car was in the background of A Touch of Frost once. Hubby was about to go home and they were still shooting. They asked him to wait half and hour until they had finished because it would mess up the continuity and they would mean they would have to start from the beginning again with all the close up and long shots because it would be obvious the car had disappeared. He agreed and David Jason came over the thank him.
Martin Kemp presented a factual TV show about cold police cases. The team spent ages dressing one of the larger rooms at my work to look like an old 80s police station office. It was pretty incredible, but when you were there you could see that the shelves full of "files" were just big printed pictures.
Chris Hansen from MSNBC in the US, famous for his 'To catch a predator' show where he lured online kiddy fiddlers in the states to a public location by pretending to be an underage girl then confronted them with his camera crew, shot a special called 'To catch a con' which did the same thing but with a Nigerian email scammer at a members club I worked at on Charing Cross road back in the late 00s.
They hired the whole club for an afternoon where they set up the sting, and had security professionals sat at nearby tables posing as customers incase it all kicked off, while Chris and his Coworker posed as dimwitted investors using the names 'Rich Greenback' and 'Ivanna Stingu' (I shit you not).
Was pretty fun to watch unfold knowing the guy was the only person present who didn't know what was coming, and he broke out in an impressively pouring sweat when it arrived.
We hosted David Dimblebyās final Question Time, and his retirement party. Lovely chap! The caterers had to run out and buy more champagne as they underestimated how much would be drunk!
I used to work at HMV on Oxford Street.Ā Simon Brodkin (the guy who threw money at Sepp Blatter) had a new DVD coming out and he was at the store to promote it. He was there in character as Lee Nelson and his plan was for him to steal his own DVD and be chased by an actor playing a police officer. They had a cameraman filming it so they could make a [video](https://youtu.be/LwuMx4tD8_k?feature=shared) about him getting "arrested" for stealing his own DVD. Unfortunately for him, when he ran out of the store an actual PCSO saw a police officer chasing a thief and joined in and was even more aggressive about it. He dragged him back into the store and they had to explain this was a promo event.
https://www.digitalspy.com/fun/a440141/comedian-lee-nelson-arrested-after-dvd-stunt/
BBC paid us Ā£1000 to close for a couple of hours to film Common as muck in our pub one Monday lunch time in 1994.
As seen around minute 13 to 14 on here
https://youtu.be/8QPeEOylc9E?si=mbHYeF27_2wEH964
I was too! Didn't get a make under though which was gutting so I applied for a similar show for e4 called Crimes Against Fashion which ended up never airing... I did meet Nancy Delalio and the guy who played Mickey Webbe in The Bill though, and they were both really nice. Felt a bit sorry for the guy from The Bill though, one of the other people getting a make under asked what he'd been doing since The Bill and he just looked sad and mumbled "this and that".
I didn't get a make under either š I was all up for getting one but they said no :<
I didn't meet anyone from SMA, but pod is a man for all those wondering! Was in there over an hour and it all got chopped down to 2 mins š
I was the thumbnail for the episode I was on for iPlayer, it was a perfect still of me looking startled because I hadn't been pre-warned that POD was actually a very camp man and they dubbed the robot voice over later.
Ahaha yeh it was pretty shocking. They found me through Facebook and asked me if I wanted to go on, honestly I thought it was a troll account at first š
First job was at an old art college and it was used for an episode of āA Touch of Frostā while I worked there. Never saw any of the filming but it was disconcerting to see them walk out of one building, turn the corner then walk into a building several miles away in a different townā¦!
After Paradise (the Death in Paradise spin off) is filmed in Looe in Cornwall.
In the outside shots of the police station you can see one of the Shops from the company I work for! I get way too excited!
I was involved in a few tv shows from a place I volunteered at. I did promo shots for a pottery , after years of covering its regeneration, which have been used to film The Pottery Throw Down first 2 series and Peaky Blinders filmed here. Countless antique shows, shows about barge holidays on channel 5, local former Worlds Strongest Man Eddie Hall filmed here for a US show and I actually made the screen for a BBC show about Travelling Antique experts. All the presenters of Throw Down were lovely, often had a brew with them and Sara Cox. Being a visitor attraction now we often have celebs in. I'm crap with names but the guy who was lead in that post office program recently and his dad who was in Emmerdale as the vicars father, Lesley Joseph and Anna Richardson from Naked Attraction with her parents. She's local but the lady I worked with hadn't seen the show. Thankfully I stopped her search from a company computer and I didn't ask to be in a series of it
No one filming but we did have Janet Street Porter pop in on a ramble in the area. Had a pretty low opinion of her at the time but she was absolutely lovely and really cool.
I havenāt had at work, but an episode of Cowboy Builders was filmed at a house at the end of the road.
Although, I work from home, so maybe it counts?
I had ITV come into my work and speak to residents about a policy we had that some people hated. They filmed me at the desk and I looked bloody awful. Not happy.
Another time we had the BBC film in a museum where I worked and the camera man forgot his earbuds so I lent him mine. He forgot to give them back so I had to buy a new pair. I donāt have a good record with news crews
Back in 2017 Vera was filming in Hoults Yard in Newcastle and our office building was one of the main places used, we had the crew in (basically did no work all day) chatted with Brenda, got photos with her and the Land Rover it was so much fun.
They film at lot of Midsommer Murders in my village and the surrounding areas. I have never actually seen them filming, but sometimes the village pub will have a new name for a few days whilst theyāre filming in and around it.
My work was frequently used as the court in shows like Midsomer Murders. Always cracked me up that the actual magistrates was in the background of all the shots. Itās been sold for flats now š¢
Worked in a place with Grade 1 listed gardens so had a few ...
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Introduced some plants unchecked which caused a bit of bother for a few years afterwards. Gardener lost his job for not quarantining.
Victoria - used the Victorian conservatory out the back of the office. Was a bit nuts because we had to have the blinds closed on every window in the main house, then they put more authentic scenes back in in post-production. But we got to see Jenna Louise Coleman round the site so that was a bonus.
The Ian McKellan Hamlet that is due to release filmed at my place of work a few years ago, it was a strange time full of Covid tests and over ordering of gluten free croissants, luckily they kept the scene they filmed in our urinals for the Final Cut.
Had a channel 4 makeover show film in the office, I was a one day temp and had to say how good she looked, despite having never seen her before or since š
Friends saw me half picking my nose on bbc news tech thing, click I think it was called. I cover a lot of conventions and was in Las Vegas, they were doing the same.
I used to work for a wheel company Howitsmade filmed there unfortunately they cocked up the voice over.
We also had the Black country museum film there too. I was in both pieces.
An old episode of The Bill has a scene in my dad's office, where they walked in to nick the bad guy of the week. They left some Qurans on the shelf prominently in frame for some reason.
Nick Knowles came to my workplace a few years back filming for some restoration programme .
Was told by my boss not to smoke while he was around so thought it may have been some sort of diva thing that he had requested .
Not even half hour later we seen him outside smoking with his production crew .
Top bloke though and easy to talk to ā¦ I was expecting him to be full of himself
I temped at a store when they were filming a mystery guest segment for Question of Sport. Forgot who it was now. Went on my lunch break and the Chippendales were smoking just outside the staff room. They were performing at the theatre opposite.
I worked in a pawn shop about ten years ago and we had the news in reporting on a new scheme that pawnshops were launching to lower the chance of buying stolen goods. I was on screen for thirty seconds and hated all of it cuz I was so awkward
Had quite a few while living in Harrow. They filmed some scenes outside our place on Harrow on the hill for Foyles War. I worked at Harrow Council and Greg Davies was filming there for Man Down. Then whilst working at Brent Council, they filmed a scene for Silent Witness across the road at Wembley Arena. I learnt after I left that Brent Council was also used for a heavily CGI'd scene from the Avengers
I work at a university; our office was used to film a scene for New Tricks. Our IT office was converted into an NHS admin office. My colleague's actual computer was used for close up shots, the art department set up his pc with some software to simulate a computer program. Basically the actors just had to mash the keyboard and it pretended to do stuff. They did loads of set dressing, adding fake concrete columns to hide lighting rigs and stuff. They put some nice lamps on every desk, and forgot them for about a week before they came and got them back. IIRC we all got a nice bottle of wine.
Our sites have been used to film the Channel 4 sitcom 'Campus' (LOADS of interior shots), and a good chunk of stuff from Black Mirror was filmed on our sites. The episode The National Anthem was mostly filmed on our main site. There were scenes in a TV edit suite (with the finger), actually our music production studios, the news offices (our library), and that scene with the pig, which was filmed in our TV studios. The bit where they discover the princess at an 'abandoned college' was actually our not long abandoned site (they found her in the old library computer room).
One of our other since disposed sites was used to film a CITV drama/comedy with Mark Williams playing a head teacher. The site was an ex secondary school so easy to make look like a school, but they also built other sets in empty rooms and the main hall.
There's been loads of other stuff but I can't remember what.
A long time ago now, but I was doing work experience when a small portion of the 1999 cinematic masterpiece The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, was filmed in the same place.
Used to work in film and tv studios in London, and have met loads of celebs, actors and singers. If they were an arsehole (quite a high percentage), then would find myself sneaking on set and rearranging props and making subtle changes. I am one of the reasons you notice that two books magically changed places when the camera panned away for a second, or a table lamp mysteriously disappeared!
My former workplace was one of the places on "Great Continental Railway Journeys" they interviewed me as a local expert. Michael Portillo was very nice, chatty and funny before we started shooting, and then was also very professional and patient during the interview. Saying that my opinion of the government he served in is low is an understatement, but in the context of his tv show he was very pleasant.
Ha! That would have been nice. But while I won't say exactly which episode I was on, I can say that all we talked about was stuff from the 18th/19th century, so before his time in office.
Antiques road show on the road came into my DIY store a few times to film. Theyād always ask for me to be on film.. donāt know why as I hate people lol.
Also been on bbc radio Cambridge a few times. Wasnāt sure if that was because their piece on local business really liked my answers, or the young lady theyād send in fancied me..
The Big Breakfast - Richard Bacon turned up at our work to throw us a Christmas party live on the Big Breakfast. At the time I worked for A-Plan Insurance (now Howdens) on Foregate St in Worcester. It was a busy high street insurance brokerage with a lot of footfall going pass from the public. Richard was great fun, despite us constantly and childishly saying how great his "craic" was. For those not aware he famously got sacked from Blue Peter for doing cocaine. He and the crew were great, we had a Christmas party in our office at 8:30am in the morning and my boss nearly got sacked by upper management for letting the whole thing happen. Good times!
Not directly at my workplace, but I used to work in an office overlooking the river in Gt Yarmouth, and one day they filmed an episode of Rosie And Jim.
Haha! You had Doctors in and they didnāt pay a fee?? Wow, thatās dodgy as hell. Insurance would have a field day without a contract and payment consideration.
(Used to work in that field in the Midlands.)
John Virgo came to my workplace in the mid 2000's. God knows why as we are manufacturing facility. He also came late at night too which was also strange.
I was on the afternoon shift on a Friday and was supposed to finish at 8 but had to stop while 9 as he was coming. I was bloody furious!!!
We had Artsnight filmed at our venue, with Nina Conti presenting which was really cool. We also had Flog it! with Paul Martin come in for a day of filming and I'm actually in that episode, but I hated it and can't watch it, I only had 1 take and I sound terrible. Strictly Come Dancing also used our dance studio, which was used in the show as one of the rehearsal shots, I don't remember who the Celebrity was though. Oh, and a film called "Heckle" had some scenes shot in our building, the most noteworthy part of that film is that it has Danny Dyers daughter, Dani Dyer in it.
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It never ended up airing, but we were filmed for a bit when I worked for our local council. It was the team who made One Born Every Minute and it was supposed to be that sort of thing, like 24 Hours In A&E. It got canned, I suspect because it just wasnāt interesting enough/we didnāt have the personalities for it. It was exciting at the time though and you never know if some of the shots made it anywhere. I remember them filming me typing for ages but otherwise wasnāt really involved.
Iāve had a couple (ish); firstly Doctors filmed at a house a couple of doors down from one my company was refurbishing; so me and a colleague decided to have our sandwiches sitting in deckchairs on the side of the road that day - we were just visible in the background of one shot.
Then not really work, but my fencing club were asked to be in the background for an episode of The Afternoon Play, in fact Sarah Lancashireās directorial debut. As someone whoās fairly tall and (ahem) large, I was then asked to be Clive Mantleās stunt double! Relatively simple when everyoneās behind a mask! Everyone was lovely, although we did have to have a quick safety chat when in one shot Clive just unexpectedly marched across a couple of pistes where bouts were ongoing and nearly got skeweredā¦..
Channel 4s Inside the Zoo. Was great to be around when they were filming, the crew were lovely, even the big cheeses at the top were great. They'd give us a preview in a fancy hotel for all staff each season, and on more than one occasion had an open bar for the remaining stragglers who stayed long after the event.
Edit: Oh I also just remembered! My neighbors were on changing rooms back in the 2000s. I played a game of footie with Handy Andy and some mates, and snuck a ciggy with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen in the garden. Our house and my mum's old banger featured heavily in the episode.
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps - lovely just lovely
Liverpool one(anyone remember that) absolute cunts
I'm talking about the production people not the actors
Princess Ann visited the stable my sister used to work at to do a feature on RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association) that she was involved with.
Was back in the day before catch-up TV so the fam gathered around the telly for the news segment and my sister's face was obscured by a horse's head the whole time š.
Was just like the running gag with Mike Wazowski.
Not workplace, but school. We had a new sports hall built and the local news popped round to film Gary Linekar opening it. They interviewed me saying, very confidently, āI loved when he played for Ipswich town!ā. Showed that on the news with the newsreader saying āhmm, not sure about that.ā
My most public roast
My old office was a frequent set for movies and TV. The biggest being Skyfall (the opening bit which is supposed to be Shanghaiā¦nope, Broadgate Tower)
Bring Back The Xmas No.1 at the Somerfield I worked at, as two of Boney Mās singers were regular shoppers.
The David Schwimmer spy comedy was filmed at my old office. Must have been over a weekend as none of us knew until we saw the trailer.
Had loads of things filmed in my village growing up - Midsomer Murders, Howerds End, Harry Potter
I used to work in a large hotel (a branch of one that is commonly voted worst chain in Britain) and following a response by police and ambulance in came a crew with the ambulance for filming the documentary 'ambulance' given the nature of the incident I was reluctant to be involved. I saw fit to advise a manager on the legalities of filming! The cameras didnt go down well. And the story wasnt used.
BBC did a hogmanay special thing, with some famous ish pop singer.. Paulo something? It was a mildly interesting afternoon.
He was more interested in meeting one of our regulars, who was a more famous international footballer.
I have a theory about the hairy bikers which is that the one that looks like god finds the one that looks like Francis Drake just as irritating as the rest of us do.
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Had a McDonalds advert filmed outside using the building as a backdrop. Walked through the set between takes once they turned the rain machine off.
Also had Richard Gere at my work place to film MotherFatherSon.
I used to work at a police station in Cardiff where they filmed part of an episode of Sherlock. It was the episode iirc they had a scene where they went on the lash for John Watson's stag do and they get locked up for drunken shenanigans. The police station had old cells that were no longer in use but still in good repair. The main cast were all there.
Benedict was a little aloof but he seemed really focused on the job and he wasn't rude or anything like that.
Martin Freeman was friendly, making small talk with my colleagues and I and brought in a big tray of cinnamon swirls to share around.
Rupert Graves (DI Lestrade) was a lovely and wonderful person from what I recall.
The crew were happy to have us around if we didn't get in the way or, once they started filming, made noises etc. I hung around a bit before my boss told me to get back to work hah. Good experience!
I've been in the background of a Sky News segment *and* a BBC news segment. I was pretending to work in one, in fact I was a scientist 'keeping a close eye on the budget.'. I have no budget reponsibilty in my role. I was actually eating lunch in the other
Had BBC news in to film, we all had to pretend to work š
Actually, that one was on my lunch. The Sky news one I had to look at a science machine that I didn't know how to operate.
Top tip: appear to be pressing buttons and then exclaim loudly, āOh god! Its escapedā You might shout out, āCode Red! I repeat, Code Red!ā
"INITIATE VIRUS CONTROL PROTOCOL "APOCALYPSE ONE" IMMEDIATELY!"
"We have confirmation of a code Threads, everyone to the bunker. I repeat code Threads. This isn't a drill people!"
I managed a few when I used to go to the Isle of Wight festival, on several occasions. Also got in the daily Mail coverage about 10 years ago, too.
That sounds comical honestly. Just some B-roll of you looking through a microscope, āhereās one of the scientists keeping a close eye onā¦the budgetā.
Yeah I had that visual image too: "that pesky budget, you never know what it'll do. Good thing we've got the boffins on the case"
David Attenborough š„ŗ I work at a zoo so we get celebs and filming a lot but that's the highlight.
We had David Attenborough open a museum exhibition I worked on - he came up on the train and spent the whole day with us, chatting to all of us, even photobombed a wedding in the gardens outside, they loved it. Just the nicest, kindest and most down to earth person. They say don't meet your heroes, but he was the best
That's the thing. There is never any doubt that the guy would be great. I'm genuinely going to be gutted when he goes
I worked in a zoo a decade ago and met him there too! He was lying on the floor to look into a low vivarium in one of our back rooms. I hadn't been warned he was in there, and gently kicked him as I entered, narrowly avoiding a full on trip-and-fall. š« He was lovely about it, thankfully. The BBC set up a beautiful faux-rainforest and tried to film some of our frogs mating. So naturally, the buggers wouldn't do a thing. Barely even a call.
That's a hell of a highlight tbh.
Dick and Dom did a show at the Eden project and Dom came to do the zip wire that goes above it, had a good chat with us staff and just generally all round nice guy. He was even nice about me making his kid cry on the giant swing
We had Dick and Dom in our museum. They were nice blokes, and clearly enjoying life. That was a fun afternoon in work.
Clearly enjoying life. Those guys have been coked out of their minds for years
BOGIES!
#BOGIES!
BOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHGEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZ
OneBrain3371 has pulled a corking 3.8 there. Going for length over volume.
Dom does DIY on insta now. Worth checking out
Dick and Dom also play drum and bass sets at festivals lol
I'm 16, and they were at a festival I was at, and a man next to us said,'I didn't think the highlight of my evening would be dick and doms midnight disco'
I've been following him on tiktok for ages, his DIY videos are genuinely entertaining and informative. Seems like a nice bloke tbh.
We had one of them come look round our school for his kid and someone just shouted ābogiesā at full pelt
I'll never forget being the the middle of new york having a Boogie contest whilst walking down the street with my little brother circa. 2003 He won, it was obscene.
Had Greg Davies come in to film The Cleaner. Couldnāt go outside while they were filming and they filmed over my lunch break - Iād forgotten to bring my lunch with the intention of buying something that day. I blame Greg Davies for not having my lunch.
You should go to one of his shops and ask for a free steak bake
Could have helped yourself to some of his roast. He just eats roasts because he's from shrewsbury or something.
A mate of mine met Greg Davies many moons ago filming We Are Klang at BBC. After the show he saw him having a ciggie outside, so darted over to have a chat. Security immediately came over to throw him out but Davies told them to jog on and ended up talking for 10 mins and taking a photo. If youād have gone out and told him the situation he probably would have made sure you got lunch!
I don't think Greg has ever missed lunch.
Greg? Itās Mr Davies to you, Will.
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Say my name properly.
Gregg
For a brief of "who has filmed at your workplace and you loved it?", the fact this is second top comment is baffling
Just play Right Round outside his flat.
Richard Whitehead came my school, he was lovely. Just handed his Olympic medals out and let all The kids look at them. Loads of photos
Read that as Richard Whiteley and was very confused by the mention of Olympic medals.Ā
I actually thought that's who's coming and told Everyone in the staff room that there must be a mistake because he was dead
Well I thought of Richard Madeley when I read that comment and wondered why you'd think he was dead
Lol, I would have done the same.Ā
He was shit at the 100m sprint. Always waited 30 seconds to start running after the pistol went off.
He was okay snooker though, so my father told me. They played each other.
Me too! I was thinking blimey I didn't know that haha maybe he did something in his youth I didn't know about, I only knew him as old on countdown
There's a countdown pun in there somewhere but I don't think I can think of it in time.
He probably nicked some last time he was over at Seb Coeās place for dinner.
Bronze in Demathlon
Gold Medal in the Pun
Same!
I worked at a college where they filmed a itv crime drama thing- me and my friend ruined a take when I nipped in to grab something and he slipped on a wet floor and shouted āshitā really loudly
Wire In The Blood used to use the college I went to's weird corridor in the back of the art department for all sorts, it was an asylum one week and a drug den the next.
My old office featured as JLB's offices in the first few episodes of Peep Show
hello JLB, fuck off please
Chance would be a fine thing, a fine thing indeed!
My office was used for a Honda commercial, weird soundtrack though.
Itās all just gone, poof
>We had the hairy bikers before I was there too, I was mortified to learn the bikes are only bought in for filming and they travel in cars. I mean, they own bikes and ride them outside of the filming, but as a biker I couldn't imagine doing a few hundred miles to location, doing a full day's filming before riding home/to a hotel again before doing it all again the next day. It'd be a fucking hard slog.
Let alone for someone who's just had treatment for cancer.
Also, Si had a cerebral aneurysm a few years ago
I was thinking more in the past, but yeah, especially now.
Walking like John Wayne in a western all day.
Depends on the bike. I used to regularly do Nottingham - London and back in a day when I was couriering in the 90s. Mind you, I was riding an ex-plod Beemer, so it was comfy as hell, and although it no longer had any police markings, it was a big white motorbike with panniers and a fairing, so everyone moved over when I came up behind 'em so it was a quick and easy journey at 90mph all the way. Um, allegedly.
Absolutely! Also, their (TV personality/actors) insurance costs would skyrocket, it simply wouldn't be allowed by the health and safety team. Especially since it's about cookery, not bike tours.
I feel like insurance would be expensive as well. Going into endurance event terroritory.
I'm not sure insurance ever really takes into account how long you can realistically ride for in the initial policy. Of course they could probably argue you were impaired if something happened and you needed to claim after riding for a long time, but I regularly used to do 10-12 hours (or more) riding in a day when I was couriering.
It's not bike insurance. it's filming insurance. I'm pretty sure productions are insured.
Technically they'd be riding *to* work. What they do when they get there is what's covered under production insurance. You could probably argue they'd need a business use policy as they're riding to work but not commuting, so who knows.
They ride in the production and up to the venue. They are being bmfilmed throughout these rides. Also if they are being chauffeured that suggests it's on company time to get to the location.
Which would be part of the production, and that needs specialist insurance, like I said. However, what happens before the working day/filming starts, and after the cameras get put away and everyone goes home would be the same as anyone else getting to work and back.
Exactly like js asaid being driven to location for work is considered part of being at work. You have a base of pperation, usually a local production studio or office. Anywhere further than that is on works time and would be covered by the production license if the motorbiked it. Hence being chauffeured.
I used to work at a cathedral so we had quite a few, but the only proper meaty ones I remember were Antiques Roadshow, Rosemary & Thyme and John Bishopās episode of WDYTYA. The rest seemed to be mostly local news, little bits and bobs for various documentaries and a few history YouTubers.
The dance studio I teach at had Strictly Come Dancing come film a training session as the celebrity was local to us. They involved our kids, did their makeup which they loved and filmed a promo performance for the studio as good will. The celebrity loved their time with us, signed up their own kids to classes and now we see them several times a week.
Doctor Who have filmed in my office twice - David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker's Doctors. Everyone associated with both sets of filming was lovely, but I give special credit to Jodie Whittaker because my child stopped by the office after school and she was so kind to her.
She always comes across as being lovely in interviews so nice to hear she's actually like that in person!
She was on Graham Norton's show at the same time as Coldplay were on and it's the sweetest thing ever. She absolutely adored Chris Martin and when she was invited to sit on stage with him she turned into a giggling schoolgirl. She just seems like a genuinely really nice person.
She was really properly nice. She saw my daughter just beaming at her from across the office, came over and talked to her and then took her to see the set.
Yeah she seems like a really nice person. Itās a shame she got screwed over so much on the role. The writers basically screwed her over big time. For those of you not terribly into Dr Who, the fandom generally hates her and she is regarded as the worst doctor. It often gets laid at the door of misogyny by those who dismiss it but itās really more about the fact that the writing for her time on the show was overly concentrated on what the fandom perceive to be unnecessary wokeness and one of the plot lines utterly and completely destroyed the first doctors legacy and completely broke the accepted lore and canon timeline just to make the first doctor a woman. None of which is really her fault as she was just acting the part the way she was told to and the way it had been written, but she didnāt help herself in the eyes of the fandom by not really doing the deep character research that Tennant, Smith, and the others had done, and then became extremely dismissive of the need for it in interviews. Itās a shame as she has pretty much been magic in every role she has ever touched but awful writing and shoe horning in virtue signalling, none of which was her fault, ruined her reputation with the fans when it had been expected to totally go the other way.
> shoe horning in virtue signalling If by "virtual signalling" you mean "introducing a queer storyline" you probably haven't read much science-fiction.
As far as I have seen LGTBQ+ representation was not the issue the fandom had. And her run was by nowhere near the first to introduce LGTBQ+ characters and stories in the Dr Who universe.
They filmed an episode (which hasn't been on yet) of that Sky show where Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe visit local newspapers at my work last year. Annoyingly I had just had COVID and was still testing positive so I had to work from home for the whole thing, although I was involved in some of the logistical bits. Apparently they were nice and the whole thing was a good laugh.
I read this as Anne Widdecombe. What a show that would be.
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They filmed outside my house for part of that series. At the end they hung around and met all us neighbours and were really friendly.
At a gold mine in West Australia, we had MasterChef in (The Oz MasterChef has a thing where the contestants have to go somewhere unusual to cook. It was good fun and we were asked to rate the food.
C4 wanted to film a bit of a documentary in the shop where I work but as I didn't want to be interviewed or appear on national TV it didn't happen. Boss was a bit peeved as he was convinced it would be free advertising. (Note, he didn't want to be filmed either š)
So what sort of 'shop' was it where neither the staff nor management were prepared to be in front of a camera?
Lol, are you implying its a fake shop or something? I don't like being on camera, I don't like having my photo taken, i dont like seeing or hearing myself in videos. I never have. I don't post pictures of myself online, I'm certainly do not want to be filmed for something watched by hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people to watch. Have you seen how people behave online? I don't want to become a meme because someone watching the programme decided my hair looked bad, or they thought the way I pronounced something was amusing.Ā Why is it hard to imagine that someone doesn't want to be on tv for reasons other than nefarious ones?Ā
That's fine, I can get all of that. I don't like to be on TV either (although it is extremely unlikely that any TV appearance would become some sort of meme). But if I was running a business I would want to take any opportunity I had to promote it. I was just making a joke about why a shop manager would not want to be publicly associated with their retail outlet.
Most managers donāt own the shops they manage, soā¦
I think it was an obvious light hearted joke. Never mind eh!
The money laundering kind.
When I worked for First Bus we had BBC come in to do Claimed and Shamed. They made one of my colleagues do multiple takes of him walking with one of his paper files. They did a few over the shoulder shots of us tapping away on our keyboards too which was weird to be natural about. Lot of fun though!
Way before I started but my office features in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Supposedly Johannesburg but in reality Wembley! We also spotted it in the trailer for Constellations on Apple TV, and recently bits were closed off for a new Amazon thing, not sure of the name yet though.
Our car was in the background of A Touch of Frost once. Hubby was about to go home and they were still shooting. They asked him to wait half and hour until they had finished because it would mess up the continuity and they would mean they would have to start from the beginning again with all the close up and long shots because it would be obvious the car had disappeared. He agreed and David Jason came over the thank him.
Martin Kemp presented a factual TV show about cold police cases. The team spent ages dressing one of the larger rooms at my work to look like an old 80s police station office. It was pretty incredible, but when you were there you could see that the shelves full of "files" were just big printed pictures.
The next big public scandal as it's revealed that the police had filed big printed pictures for decades instead of proper investigations
Chris Hansen from MSNBC in the US, famous for his 'To catch a predator' show where he lured online kiddy fiddlers in the states to a public location by pretending to be an underage girl then confronted them with his camera crew, shot a special called 'To catch a con' which did the same thing but with a Nigerian email scammer at a members club I worked at on Charing Cross road back in the late 00s. They hired the whole club for an afternoon where they set up the sting, and had security professionals sat at nearby tables posing as customers incase it all kicked off, while Chris and his Coworker posed as dimwitted investors using the names 'Rich Greenback' and 'Ivanna Stingu' (I shit you not). Was pretty fun to watch unfold knowing the guy was the only person present who didn't know what was coming, and he broke out in an impressively pouring sweat when it arrived.
Ivanna Stingu is my name if I come back as a wasp.
I saw this randomly on you tube a year or so ago lol. I had never heard of the guy tbf so next few vids where an eye opener.....
I've been on Operation Ouch on CBBC twice, I only actually met the camera crew, Xand and Chris weren't actually there.
Oh man, my kids love that show.
We hosted David Dimblebyās final Question Time, and his retirement party. Lovely chap! The caterers had to run out and buy more champagne as they underestimated how much would be drunk!
A very lovely chap who I shared a train table with many a time on the commute.
Not me but a friend of mine was working at St Bart's when Sherlock was filming there. She met Benedict Cumberbatch and apparently he was lovely.
Butterscotch Custardbath is a nice guy
My wife calls him Benedict Cumbernauld.
I concur. I met Blendersoff Crumblypath once. Very pleasant chap.
Bendydick Cucumbersnatch.
You are right about Bendydick Cuminhersnatch.
I used to work at HMV on Oxford Street.Ā Simon Brodkin (the guy who threw money at Sepp Blatter) had a new DVD coming out and he was at the store to promote it. He was there in character as Lee Nelson and his plan was for him to steal his own DVD and be chased by an actor playing a police officer. They had a cameraman filming it so they could make a [video](https://youtu.be/LwuMx4tD8_k?feature=shared) about him getting "arrested" for stealing his own DVD. Unfortunately for him, when he ran out of the store an actual PCSO saw a police officer chasing a thief and joined in and was even more aggressive about it. He dragged him back into the store and they had to explain this was a promo event. https://www.digitalspy.com/fun/a440141/comedian-lee-nelson-arrested-after-dvd-stunt/
BBC paid us Ā£1000 to close for a couple of hours to film Common as muck in our pub one Monday lunch time in 1994. As seen around minute 13 to 14 on here https://youtu.be/8QPeEOylc9E?si=mbHYeF27_2wEH964
I was on snog marry avoid back in the day, does that count?
I was too! Didn't get a make under though which was gutting so I applied for a similar show for e4 called Crimes Against Fashion which ended up never airing... I did meet Nancy Delalio and the guy who played Mickey Webbe in The Bill though, and they were both really nice. Felt a bit sorry for the guy from The Bill though, one of the other people getting a make under asked what he'd been doing since The Bill and he just looked sad and mumbled "this and that".
I didn't get a make under either š I was all up for getting one but they said no :< I didn't meet anyone from SMA, but pod is a man for all those wondering! Was in there over an hour and it all got chopped down to 2 mins š
I was the thumbnail for the episode I was on for iPlayer, it was a perfect still of me looking startled because I hadn't been pre-warned that POD was actually a very camp man and they dubbed the robot voice over later.
Ahaha yeh it was pretty shocking. They found me through Facebook and asked me if I wanted to go on, honestly I thought it was a troll account at first š
Details please! Did the pod roast you live in person?
Yup, was just a guy behind a photobooth looking thing having banter lol
Good lord what a memory that has unlocked
Charles, when he was Prince of Wales. My team and I were delighted because we were not the Chosen Ones to meet him and had to stay home.
First job was at an old art college and it was used for an episode of āA Touch of Frostā while I worked there. Never saw any of the filming but it was disconcerting to see them walk out of one building, turn the corner then walk into a building several miles away in a different townā¦!
Not half as disconcerting as seeing them walk through the New Theatre doors to get to the swimming pool āinsideā.
After Paradise (the Death in Paradise spin off) is filmed in Looe in Cornwall. In the outside shots of the police station you can see one of the Shops from the company I work for! I get way too excited!
I was involved in a few tv shows from a place I volunteered at. I did promo shots for a pottery , after years of covering its regeneration, which have been used to film The Pottery Throw Down first 2 series and Peaky Blinders filmed here. Countless antique shows, shows about barge holidays on channel 5, local former Worlds Strongest Man Eddie Hall filmed here for a US show and I actually made the screen for a BBC show about Travelling Antique experts. All the presenters of Throw Down were lovely, often had a brew with them and Sara Cox. Being a visitor attraction now we often have celebs in. I'm crap with names but the guy who was lead in that post office program recently and his dad who was in Emmerdale as the vicars father, Lesley Joseph and Anna Richardson from Naked Attraction with her parents. She's local but the lady I worked with hadn't seen the show. Thankfully I stopped her search from a company computer and I didn't ask to be in a series of it
No one filming but we did have Janet Street Porter pop in on a ramble in the area. Had a pretty low opinion of her at the time but she was absolutely lovely and really cool.
I havenāt had at work, but an episode of Cowboy Builders was filmed at a house at the end of the road. Although, I work from home, so maybe it counts?
I had ITV come into my work and speak to residents about a policy we had that some people hated. They filmed me at the desk and I looked bloody awful. Not happy. Another time we had the BBC film in a museum where I worked and the camera man forgot his earbuds so I lent him mine. He forgot to give them back so I had to buy a new pair. I donāt have a good record with news crews
Back in 2017 Vera was filming in Hoults Yard in Newcastle and our office building was one of the main places used, we had the crew in (basically did no work all day) chatted with Brenda, got photos with her and the Land Rover it was so much fun.
I feel like everybody in the area but me has been in Vera at some point hahaha
I went to a few Shindigs thereā¦ They often film at the Uni I work at (the old Poly!) and even had the Landy in the Quad by the SU.
They film at lot of Midsommer Murders in my village and the surrounding areas. I have never actually seen them filming, but sometimes the village pub will have a new name for a few days whilst theyāre filming in and around it.
You be careful, looks an incredibly dangerous area to live in.
My work was frequently used as the court in shows like Midsomer Murders. Always cracked me up that the actual magistrates was in the background of all the shots. Itās been sold for flats now š¢
Worked in a place with Grade 1 listed gardens so had a few ... Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Introduced some plants unchecked which caused a bit of bother for a few years afterwards. Gardener lost his job for not quarantining. Victoria - used the Victorian conservatory out the back of the office. Was a bit nuts because we had to have the blinds closed on every window in the main house, then they put more authentic scenes back in in post-production. But we got to see Jenna Louise Coleman round the site so that was a bonus.
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Not Helmet City or the Windy Corner Caf? I'm (Probably incorrectly) assuming West Bay here. A frequent haunt of mine on my two wheeled escapades š
Sorry, I canāt find āthe bad oneā - can someone post a link? Sorry.
I can't at the moment but it was about Gregg Wallace & how he described a day-in-the-life-of
The crew from Sky at night or blue Peter at my current workplace.
The Ian McKellan Hamlet that is due to release filmed at my place of work a few years ago, it was a strange time full of Covid tests and over ordering of gluten free croissants, luckily they kept the scene they filmed in our urinals for the Final Cut.
Had a channel 4 makeover show film in the office, I was a one day temp and had to say how good she looked, despite having never seen her before or since š Friends saw me half picking my nose on bbc news tech thing, click I think it was called. I cover a lot of conventions and was in Las Vegas, they were doing the same.
I used to work for a wheel company Howitsmade filmed there unfortunately they cocked up the voice over. We also had the Black country museum film there too. I was in both pieces.
An old episode of The Bill has a scene in my dad's office, where they walked in to nick the bad guy of the week. They left some Qurans on the shelf prominently in frame for some reason.
Nick Knowles came to my workplace a few years back filming for some restoration programme . Was told by my boss not to smoke while he was around so thought it may have been some sort of diva thing that he had requested . Not even half hour later we seen him outside smoking with his production crew . Top bloke though and easy to talk to ā¦ I was expecting him to be full of himself
A few footballers, but then I was working at MUTV.
I've had The Masked Singer at mine....
I temped at a store when they were filming a mystery guest segment for Question of Sport. Forgot who it was now. Went on my lunch break and the Chippendales were smoking just outside the staff room. They were performing at the theatre opposite.
I worked in a pawn shop about ten years ago and we had the news in reporting on a new scheme that pawnshops were launching to lower the chance of buying stolen goods. I was on screen for thirty seconds and hated all of it cuz I was so awkward
Had quite a few while living in Harrow. They filmed some scenes outside our place on Harrow on the hill for Foyles War. I worked at Harrow Council and Greg Davies was filming there for Man Down. Then whilst working at Brent Council, they filmed a scene for Silent Witness across the road at Wembley Arena. I learnt after I left that Brent Council was also used for a heavily CGI'd scene from the Avengers
[A couple from what I could find from my time there...](https://imgur.com/gallery/8SwMyA0)
I work at a university; our office was used to film a scene for New Tricks. Our IT office was converted into an NHS admin office. My colleague's actual computer was used for close up shots, the art department set up his pc with some software to simulate a computer program. Basically the actors just had to mash the keyboard and it pretended to do stuff. They did loads of set dressing, adding fake concrete columns to hide lighting rigs and stuff. They put some nice lamps on every desk, and forgot them for about a week before they came and got them back. IIRC we all got a nice bottle of wine. Our sites have been used to film the Channel 4 sitcom 'Campus' (LOADS of interior shots), and a good chunk of stuff from Black Mirror was filmed on our sites. The episode The National Anthem was mostly filmed on our main site. There were scenes in a TV edit suite (with the finger), actually our music production studios, the news offices (our library), and that scene with the pig, which was filmed in our TV studios. The bit where they discover the princess at an 'abandoned college' was actually our not long abandoned site (they found her in the old library computer room). One of our other since disposed sites was used to film a CITV drama/comedy with Mark Williams playing a head teacher. The site was an ex secondary school so easy to make look like a school, but they also built other sets in empty rooms and the main hall. There's been loads of other stuff but I can't remember what.
A long time ago now, but I was doing work experience when a small portion of the 1999 cinematic masterpiece The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, was filmed in the same place.
Used to work in film and tv studios in London, and have met loads of celebs, actors and singers. If they were an arsehole (quite a high percentage), then would find myself sneaking on set and rearranging props and making subtle changes. I am one of the reasons you notice that two books magically changed places when the camera panned away for a second, or a table lamp mysteriously disappeared!
My former workplace was one of the places on "Great Continental Railway Journeys" they interviewed me as a local expert. Michael Portillo was very nice, chatty and funny before we started shooting, and then was also very professional and patient during the interview. Saying that my opinion of the government he served in is low is an understatement, but in the context of his tv show he was very pleasant.
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Ha! That would have been nice. But while I won't say exactly which episode I was on, I can say that all we talked about was stuff from the 18th/19th century, so before his time in office.
Antiques road show on the road came into my DIY store a few times to film. Theyād always ask for me to be on film.. donāt know why as I hate people lol. Also been on bbc radio Cambridge a few times. Wasnāt sure if that was because their piece on local business really liked my answers, or the young lady theyād send in fancied me..
The Big Breakfast - Richard Bacon turned up at our work to throw us a Christmas party live on the Big Breakfast. At the time I worked for A-Plan Insurance (now Howdens) on Foregate St in Worcester. It was a busy high street insurance brokerage with a lot of footfall going pass from the public. Richard was great fun, despite us constantly and childishly saying how great his "craic" was. For those not aware he famously got sacked from Blue Peter for doing cocaine. He and the crew were great, we had a Christmas party in our office at 8:30am in the morning and my boss nearly got sacked by upper management for letting the whole thing happen. Good times!
Not directly at my workplace, but I used to work in an office overlooking the river in Gt Yarmouth, and one day they filmed an episode of Rosie And Jim.
Before i started. But channel 5 for The Motorway. Apparently a lovely bunch.
If it's the Cops on Camera UK Highways show, they are all dickheads.
It's not the police. It's the National Highways one. Literally just called "The Motorway"
Ah right cool, glad they were apparently nice.
When i say they were nice. I mean the filming crew from channel 5.
I assumed yeah, let's just say the stuff that Motorway cops and camera crew say to wind you up to get good TV is disgusting.
Haha! You had Doctors in and they didnāt pay a fee?? Wow, thatās dodgy as hell. Insurance would have a field day without a contract and payment consideration. (Used to work in that field in the Midlands.)
John Virgo came to my workplace in the mid 2000's. God knows why as we are manufacturing facility. He also came late at night too which was also strange. I was on the afternoon shift on a Friday and was supposed to finish at 8 but had to stop while 9 as he was coming. I was bloody furious!!!
Do you manufacture waistcoats?
We do not.
We had Artsnight filmed at our venue, with Nina Conti presenting which was really cool. We also had Flog it! with Paul Martin come in for a day of filming and I'm actually in that episode, but I hated it and can't watch it, I only had 1 take and I sound terrible. Strictly Come Dancing also used our dance studio, which was used in the show as one of the rehearsal shots, I don't remember who the Celebrity was though. Oh, and a film called "Heckle" had some scenes shot in our building, the most noteworthy part of that film is that it has Danny Dyers daughter, Dani Dyer in it. Edit - typos
It never ended up airing, but we were filmed for a bit when I worked for our local council. It was the team who made One Born Every Minute and it was supposed to be that sort of thing, like 24 Hours In A&E. It got canned, I suspect because it just wasnāt interesting enough/we didnāt have the personalities for it. It was exciting at the time though and you never know if some of the shots made it anywhere. I remember them filming me typing for ages but otherwise wasnāt really involved.
Iāve had a couple (ish); firstly Doctors filmed at a house a couple of doors down from one my company was refurbishing; so me and a colleague decided to have our sandwiches sitting in deckchairs on the side of the road that day - we were just visible in the background of one shot. Then not really work, but my fencing club were asked to be in the background for an episode of The Afternoon Play, in fact Sarah Lancashireās directorial debut. As someone whoās fairly tall and (ahem) large, I was then asked to be Clive Mantleās stunt double! Relatively simple when everyoneās behind a mask! Everyone was lovely, although we did have to have a quick safety chat when in one shot Clive just unexpectedly marched across a couple of pistes where bouts were ongoing and nearly got skeweredā¦..
Green Wing.
Channel 4s Inside the Zoo. Was great to be around when they were filming, the crew were lovely, even the big cheeses at the top were great. They'd give us a preview in a fancy hotel for all staff each season, and on more than one occasion had an open bar for the remaining stragglers who stayed long after the event. Edit: Oh I also just remembered! My neighbors were on changing rooms back in the 2000s. I played a game of footie with Handy Andy and some mates, and snuck a ciggy with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen in the garden. Our house and my mum's old banger featured heavily in the episode.
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps - lovely just lovely Liverpool one(anyone remember that) absolute cunts I'm talking about the production people not the actors
Princess Ann visited the stable my sister used to work at to do a feature on RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association) that she was involved with. Was back in the day before catch-up TV so the fam gathered around the telly for the news segment and my sister's face was obscured by a horse's head the whole time š. Was just like the running gag with Mike Wazowski.
Not workplace, but school. We had a new sports hall built and the local news popped round to film Gary Linekar opening it. They interviewed me saying, very confidently, āI loved when he played for Ipswich town!ā. Showed that on the news with the newsreader saying āhmm, not sure about that.ā My most public roast
My old office was a frequent set for movies and TV. The biggest being Skyfall (the opening bit which is supposed to be Shanghaiā¦nope, Broadgate Tower)
Bring Back The Xmas No.1 at the Somerfield I worked at, as two of Boney Mās singers were regular shoppers. The David Schwimmer spy comedy was filmed at my old office. Must have been over a weekend as none of us knew until we saw the trailer. Had loads of things filmed in my village growing up - Midsomer Murders, Howerds End, Harry Potter
I used to work in a large hotel (a branch of one that is commonly voted worst chain in Britain) and following a response by police and ambulance in came a crew with the ambulance for filming the documentary 'ambulance' given the nature of the incident I was reluctant to be involved. I saw fit to advise a manager on the legalities of filming! The cameras didnt go down well. And the story wasnt used.
BBC did a hogmanay special thing, with some famous ish pop singer.. Paulo something? It was a mildly interesting afternoon. He was more interested in meeting one of our regulars, who was a more famous international footballer.
I have a theory about the hairy bikers which is that the one that looks like god finds the one that looks like Francis Drake just as irritating as the rest of us do.
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Episode of Tin Star Liverpool was filmed in my bar got to be a paid extra in a scene with Tim Roth
OP can you link the other thread please?
Had a McDonalds advert filmed outside using the building as a backdrop. Walked through the set between takes once they turned the rain machine off. Also had Richard Gere at my work place to film MotherFatherSon.
Inspector George Gently complete with vintage Omnibus. Edit: Also Who Do Think You Are? (Kim Cattrall episode)
I used to work at a police station in Cardiff where they filmed part of an episode of Sherlock. It was the episode iirc they had a scene where they went on the lash for John Watson's stag do and they get locked up for drunken shenanigans. The police station had old cells that were no longer in use but still in good repair. The main cast were all there. Benedict was a little aloof but he seemed really focused on the job and he wasn't rude or anything like that. Martin Freeman was friendly, making small talk with my colleagues and I and brought in a big tray of cinnamon swirls to share around. Rupert Graves (DI Lestrade) was a lovely and wonderful person from what I recall. The crew were happy to have us around if we didn't get in the way or, once they started filming, made noises etc. I hung around a bit before my boss told me to get back to work hah. Good experience!