Manchester Street was in London Today
A street in Manchester became the location for the new ITV 3-part drama series “Wired” today. Great Bridgewater Street, off Oxford St, was turned into Prince’s Street EC2, with a London bus and the bar “Temple” being a London Underground station. Some of the shots were filmed in London itself and today Manchester and then Liverpool next week.
WIRED stars Jodie Whittaker (Venus, St Trinians), Toby Stephens (Jane Eyre, Die Another Day), Charlie Brookes (Eastenders), Laurence Fox (Lewis) and Sacha Dhawan (Splintered, Bradford Riots) and is about a £250m Internet bank fraud. The gang use an innocent mum to steal money.
You can just make out Beetham Tower in the background.
The series will be shown on ITV in Autumn this year.
Now spot the mistake on the set?
The number at the bus stop is ‘2′ while the number on the bus is ‘96′.
A costly mistake, if it is a mistake that is, to come back to Manchester and shoot it again. Maybe, they just film the back of the bus? Perhaps, the bus was hijacked? Or, the bus got diverted? What if the mum is a bus driver and wanted to stop off at the bank?
Guess I’ll have to wait until the Autumn to find out.