Film crews from a hit Sky TV drama series about the end of the world have been filming in East Street in Bedminster.
The crews took over a flat above the VX vegan junk food cafe and filmed outside on the pavement throughout Thursday, as the second series of Sky Max’s The Lazarus Project is created.
The show was originally called Extinction, and the first series was a summer hit in June and July 2022 when it was aired on Sky Max and NowTV.
The show stars Paapa Essiedu, Anji Mohindra and Caroline Quentin in a complicated premise that involves the end of the world through a variety of apocalyptic events, but the hero George keeps waking up again on July 1 in a Groundhog Day-style time loop, with another chance to save the world.
The first series was filmed in Bristol, Cardiff and in Czechia in 2021, and broadcast in the UK in 2022. The film-makers have returned to Bristol for the second series, as that first series begins to be screened for the first time in the US, on the TNT network.
“We are thrilled at the success of series one and at Sky’s recommission,” said the show’s writer Joe Barton. “We have bold and ambitious plans for series two which will reunite all our characters in more thrilling and mind-bending adventures.”
Crews and location trucks from the Newport-based Urban Myth Films filled East Street and side roads yesterday.
At one point, a combination of one of the trucks, an Airport bus and a cyclist redistributing Voi e-scooters around South Bristol caused a complete, albeit temporary blockage of the road, much to the bemusement of shoppers on Bedminster’s high street.
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