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Bristol Post
Entertainment
Conor Gogarty

Two major TV series being filmed within a few hundred metres in Bristol

Two TV series are being filmed in Cotham within a few hundred metres of each other.

We revealed the two film sets on Thursday, one at Muller House on Cotham Park, and the other at Cotham School on Cotham Lawn Road.

And we can now report the shoot at Muller House - which is the base of young people's charity Mullers - is for a new BBC One thriller called Chloe, from Sex Education director Alice Seabright.

The work at Cotham School is for spy drama Alex Rider. Its crew shot scenes at the school in February and has returned this week.

Our photographer visited both sites on Friday, finding no filming was ongoing for Chloe at Cotham Park, though a security guard said the shoot should resume on Monday. A few vans from the production were parked on the street.

There was more activity at Cotham School, with lighting rigs in place for filming Alex Rider behind the school gates. Several trucks were in the car park as part of the production.

BBC One and BBC Drama have commissioned Chloe, a six-parter described as an "assertive, audacious thriller" exploring obsession, identity, grief and truth.

The press release reads: "Becky thinks Chloe has the perfect life - years after Chloe abandoned her when they were teenagers, Becky still obsessively watches Chloe's life through her picture-perfect social media.

"But when Chloe dies suddenly, Becky's need to find out how and why leads her to assume a new identity and infiltrate the enviable lives of Chloe's closest friends."

It is created, written and directed by Alice Seabright. The production will be based at the Bottle Yard Studios in Whitchurch.

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Alex Rider, based on the books of Anthony Horowitz, follows the titular teenager who has been trained as a spy since he was a young child.

Rider is played by Otto Farrant, while Line of Duty's Vicky McClure and Game of Thrones' Stephen Dillane also feature, as members of The Department, an underworld offshoot of MI6.

The filming of the second series of the Amazon Prime hit is being headed up by Eleventh Hour Films, the company behind Safe House, New Blood, Collision and Foyle's War.

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