A new TV thriller series being filmed in Bristol at the moment has temporarily renamed a famous Bedminster cafe. Paramount+ mini-series The Killing Kind has taken over part of East Street in BS3 for a couple of days, and is filming above and outside the vegan fast food cafe and shop VX Bristol.
But because the thriller series is set in London, the VX Bristol sign has been replaced by one that renames the cafe ‘Bell Street Kitchen - vegetarian cafe’.
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The flat above the vegan diner in East Street has been taken over for filming interior scenes, with scaffolding and black-out sheets across the windows of the upper floor. Cherry pickers and other location equipment are being used around the corner in Church Lane, and filming is taking place outside in East Street itself.
The Killing Kind is the latest title to film in Bristol, with much of the shoot taking place at the Bottle Yard Studios in Hengrove, and on location all over Bristol. Over the past couple of months, the Eleventh Hour production has also filmed in the Highbury Vaults pub in Kingsdown, and last month saw a number 23 London bus to Liverpool Street (even though the number 23 bus route is in west London) parked up and used for filming in Avon Street in Old Market.
The thriller is based on the international best-seller novel by renowned Irish crime writer Jane Casey, and charts the story of a London barrister, Ingrid Lewis, and her life after defending her client John Webster against a stalking charge.
The series will be six 60-minute episodes, and stars Colin Morgan - who is best known for playing Merlin in the BBC series, and starring in the film Belfast - and Emma Appleton, who starred in The Witcher and Everything I Know About Love.
Strangely, The Killing Kind is not the first major TV series to use the flat above VX Bristol and East Street outside for filming this year. In January, the hit Sky Max drama series The Lazarus Project used the exact same flat, front door and pavement outside VX to film scenes in its second series.
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