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- Filming started in February on the second series, but according to The Sun, Eccleston had to pull out weeks into filming and ITV bosses are undergoing a complete rewrite of the show with an entirely new cast. Bosses have reportedly now moved the series to Wales, with the rewrite costing Marsha and Paterson their jobs on the series.
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Dec 22, 2017 · ITV has re-cast and re-written the second series of its Christopher Eccleston drama Safe House and moved it to a new location. The former Doctor Who star, who is understood to have begun pre ...
- Ben Dowell
Jun 10, 2016 · CHRISTOPHER Eccleston has pulled out from hit drama Safe House delaying the second series and costing his co-stars their jobs.
Jun 11, 2016 · ITV. Christopher Eccleston will no longer star in the ITV drama Safe House. It is believed the former Doctor Who actor had already begun work on the second series, but will now no longer be...
- Charlotte.Whistlecroft@city.ac.uk
- 1 The Lead
- 2 The Supporting Cast
- 3 The Setting
- 4 The Plot
Robert Carmichael is no longer. Well, no longer in the show at least: Eccleston’s series one character – a detective-turned-safe-house-owner, haunted by his failure to protect a witness in the past – has no bearing on series two. Instead, Carmichael has been replaced by Moyer's new role: ex-police officer Tom Brook – a former detective, now safe ho...
Like Tom Brook, the characters of series two will all be newbies. Paterson Joseph and Marsha Thomason have also left the show, and we’ll now be following an entirely different complex supporting cast. Foremost of these: Zoe Tapper. She plays Brook’s accomplished wife Sam, a woman who had to be highly competent to fit with the show’s realism. “She’s...
It’s not miles away from the remote cottage from the first series. Well, literally it is – the setting has been moved from an isolated cottage in the Lake District to the rugged coastline of Anglesey, North Wales – but the new coastal house remains just as remote and ominous. “It was filmed in Trearddur Bay, a beautiful tiny fishing village. But th...
There's a different crime at the heart of the new series but although the script has been reworked to take account of the changes in personnel and location, the subject of season two hasn't altered from when Eccleston was cast: the story was always going to centre on a kidnapping. The abduction of Julie Delaney (Lynsey McLaren) prompts Tom Brook to...
- Thomas Ling
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However, shortly after production began on series 2, Eccleston dropped out of the project for “confidential reasons” so it was re-written with a new cast and a new location.
- Sarah Doran
- 41 sec
Sep 8, 2017 · Forget Christopher Eccleston and the Lake District. Two years on, Ed Whitmore’s ready-mix thriller Safe House returns with Stephen Moyer in Merseyside. He plays Tom Brook – not the venerable film critic (Talking Movies is still showing on BBC World), but an ex-cop convinced his successors are making a dreadful mistake.
Safe House is a British crime drama, broadcast on ITV, with the first series starring Christopher Eccleston and Marsha Thomason as the principal characters, Robert and Katy, who turn their beautiful picturesque guest house in the Lake District into a Safe House after being persuaded by one of Robert's former colleagues. [1]
