Блам суммировал в одном посте многочисленные производственные трудности на съёмках 1 сезона, который "через две недели съёмок мы отставали от графика на три недели".
Героические люди, героические.


To boil down the big production issues in block one, with a little bit of reading-between-the-lines but hopefully not too much...

* The original overall plan seems to have been that they'd start with two days doing the "space pig" sequence at the hospital, then the Auton attack from "Rose", then a week in London getting footage for all three episodes, then a couple of days in Cardiff getting various other location bits (like Rose's department-store basement and the rubble of Downing Street), then a two-week shoot at Hensol Castle for the Downing Street interiors, then further filming for the Auton Lair and restaurant scenes, then into studio.

* First thing to go awry was the space pig shoot -- they ran out of time, and tried to schedule a remount for the bits they'd missed in the days right after London.

* Then they lost a lot of time in London, and various scenes which were meant to be shot on location had to be rewritten for other locations or studio (including a brief scene of the Slitheen policeman at the Powell Estate which meant they had to mock the place up as a studio set).

* Then the Autons-in-the-basement sequence also took too long (and would need pickups later), and the space pig remount had to be pushed back *again*.

* Somewhere around this time, the shoot for Clive's street, and the shop-floor and exterior scenes for Rose's department store, also had to be postponed because other stuff had overrun.

* It's around this point that the famous "we're two weeks in and three weeks behind schedule, SEND HELP" conversations happened, which resulted in Tracie Simpson being airlifted in by Julie Gardner to get things back under control.

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