TV / Film crew on Upland Road

[BQC]

Anyone know what they're doing this morning ? Looks like a big set/team there

[zephyr]

Spooks? That has bee filmed a few times round here.

I noted signs on Lordship lane pointing to film location (those little flurescent ones on traffic lights and lamp posts).

[Polly D]

Yep, it's Spooks

[sallyann1234]

Just drove around and all clear now - could have done with a Richard Armitage sighting - it's been too long!

[resdes2]

Richard lived for several years in The Gardens [before the TV fame!]

[BeccaL]

Apparently Richard Armitage was about, looking sulky (husband's phrase - I'm sure he meant sultry) and there were lots of swooning mums on the school run to Goodrich this morning - typical that I did the school run every day last week and none this :-(

[Addy120]

I asked them what they were filming and it was for GMTV apparently

[Pickle]

I asked them too, and they told me it was Spooks!

[Addy120]

Blimey - must've been two different shoots going on!

[BQC]

Rupert (Penry-Jones) can knock on my door anytime - day or night..

[Sonners]

BQC Wrote:

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> Rupert (Penry-Jones) can knock on my door anytime

> - day or night..

A friend of the my husband's was one of the writers on Spooks for a few of the series and Rupert P-J was nick-named Rupert Pendulous-Jones for his rather manly attributes. Apparently he was often quick to suggest changes which were always "I think that this scene would be better if I was naked, don't you?"

[bil]

they are still filming tonight

[maybe]

Whereabouts on Upland Road?

[HonaloochieB]

Does anyone know any spies in real life?

Are they as tough, good-looking and posh and mostly young, as they are in Spooks?

Aren't any of them common and older like Callan or Harry Palmer?

I'd like to think I was still in with a shout, should I get the call.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I do. Think nerd.

[Ridgley]

Lover harry Pallmer:)

[BeccaL]

This series of Spooks starts tonight, so watch out for Upland Road starring in a future episode (it's not in the first 2). Good preview on www.ontvtonight.org (biased - my husband wrote it!)

[BeccaL]

Bump - watch out for a brief glimpse of Mount Adon Park (just off Upland Road) in tonight's episode - full preview here http://www.ontvtonight.org/ (Still biased - see above)

[Marmora Man]

I think I blinked!

[huncamunca]

Yeah , its for the final ever episode of Spooks, where they defeat the forces of evil once and for all and settle down to a normal life in ED of having coffee at cafe Nero,looking for houses near the "Outstanding" Heber/Goodrich/any other/ schools , browsing the tat shops n estate agents on Lordship lane, experience the depressing atmosphere of a Tuesday night at the Bono bar and post in a futile manner on local web forums 24/7, before ending it with a single gunshot to the head.

[ianr]

The good news is that Southwark makes money from it. "Southwark is now the second busiest borough in London for film-making with around 1500 filming days per year." http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/1048/film_and_photography_permissions/1190/filming_in_southwark//1

[*Bob*]

You can rent your home out for a location shoot for the day and net a tidy sum yourself.

You don't even need to have a nice home. Half of The Bill was shot in complete dumps across South London.

You've worked hard for your dump; it's time to start making your dump work hard for you.

Free amusing Facebook status update with every shoot.

[louisiana]

Now every time I turn my bike uphill from Dunstans around the 'MI5 safe house', I'll be thinking of Lukas running up that hill... It's pretty steep :)