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director: Doctor Who 60th Anniversary | Ghosts 1&2 | Stath Lets Flats 1&2 | This is Going to Hurt | Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat // 🏳️‍🌈 he/him
Dec 3, 2023 19 tweets 7 min read
If you watched last night’s #DoctorWho episode, #WildBlueYonder, A) thank you and B) here’s some facts about how we made it. >>Spoilers!<< 1/18 Here’s the SFX team about to chuck a box of apples over @nathancurtis90 #WildBlueYonder #DoctorWho 2/18 Just two guys about to chuck a box of apples over Isaac Newton
Mar 22, 2022 19 tweets 10 min read
If you watched the final episode of This is Going to Hurt, then A) thank you, and B) here is a 🧵 of more behind the scenes facts:

1/17 - Our fake hospital was built in a former art college in Whitechapel. When we filmed the last scene, nearly all the set had been demolished: On the last day of filming, the crew wore scrubs:
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Mar 8, 2022 11 tweets 7 min read
If you watched tonight’s stressful episode of This is Going to Hurt, here’s a behind the scenes 🧵 about it (I directed eps 5+6+7):

1/10: The set was so detailed you could pick up any folder in the back of shot, and it’d be filled with notes written by our medical advisors Our script editor compiled a 90-page medical bible, containing things like links to real caesarean operations that you can watch on YouTube but I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU DO NOT. Here are some of the notes for the catheter scene:

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