Leeds on screen

Si · Post by Si » Thu 29 Oct, 2009 11:08 am

Spot the Leeds location on TV recently includes:"7 days on the Breadline." Celebs spend a week on the breadline with various families in Leeds. However, Mel B still goes to Asda by taxi, and goes to the gym everyday..."The Bigamist Bride: My Five Husbands." Deluded woman explains how she's not to blame. Unintentionally hilarious - with a straight face, and not a hint of irony, she says, "I do my crying alone - or in the rain."

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 29 Oct, 2009 12:11 pm

Same with Keith Allen spending £5 on the bus to the supermarket (Killingbeck?) when he could have walked to Leeds City Markets. Can't believe the council cooperated with the programme given the way it protrayed Leeds as being unremittingly grim.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Thu 29 Oct, 2009 12:22 pm

After seeing this programme I don't think anyone would want to visit Leeds.I bet Mel B will be glad to get back to LA and not be having to do £100+ loads of washing(or laundry as she now calls it) at the bagwash!

slw · Post by **slw** » Thu 29 Oct, 2009 1:45 pm

A couple of weeks ago we saw Alun Armstrong being filmed driving on Hunslet Road, not sure what programme/drama it would be for though.

Si · Post by Si » Thu 29 Oct, 2009 4:26 pm

Lilysmum wrote: After seeing this programme I don't think anyone would want to visit Leeds.I bet Mel B will be glad to get back to LA and not be having to do £100+ loads of washing(or laundry as she now calls it) at the bagwash! I bet we don't see her doing £100 worth of ironing!Did the programme have Leeds City Council backing, Cardiarms? I guess there was a clue in the title as to the programme's content. They were hardly going to film it in Bramhope!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 29 Oct, 2009 4:45 pm

There was a prominent 'thanks to leeds city council for their help' credit at the end of the first prog.

Si · Post by Si » Thu 29 Oct, 2009 5:23 pm

Cardiarms wrote: There was a prominent 'thanks to leeds city council for their help' credit at the end of the first prog. Thanks, Cardi. I didn't see the credits.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Thu 29 Oct, 2009 8:58 pm

It was in one of todays paper that the new Billie Piper drama "A Passionate Woman" is being filmed at Roundhay Park.http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sh ... ide.htmlIt will air next year on the BBC and is currently being filmed in and around Leeds. It also features Alun Armstrong (might explain why he was spotted earlier) and Sue Johnston.

Crazy Jane · Post by **Crazy Jane** » Sat 31 Oct, 2009 12:44 pm

There was filming going on at Hyde Terrece yesterday, looked like mostly in the little side street from it on your right if you stand at the top and look down towards the dental hospital.There was a 1950s van there, and a shire horse pulling an old rag & bonemans cart.

Si · Post by Si » Wed 04 Nov, 2009 12:23 pm

Anyone see "The F Word" last night? Gordon Ramsey's latest series is different to previous F Words, in that instead of helping struggling restaurants, he is running a competition to find "Britain's best regional restaurants" in various categories - Indian, French, Chinese, etc. Still plenty of gratuitous effing and blinding, mind. Last night was Italian, and featured a restaurant in Bristol versus Salvo's in Headingley. Salvo's won!