Richard Armitage and Jing Lusi sit in the middle row of a passenger plane as a film crew hurries past, resetting for another take…
TV&Satellite Week has been invited to White Waltham Airfield in Berkshire to watch the filming of ITV1’s Red Eye, a tense and claustrophobic six-part conspiracy thriller.
‘It’s been a surreal experience because the drama is set on a night-time flight, so it’s a very dark set,’ says Armitage as we chat to him during a break in filming. ‘You lose track of time a bit, which feels like the perfect environment for this kind of story. But it’s strange when you walk outside, and it’s bright sunshine.’
Set on a flight between London and Beijing, the series sees the Robin Hood star playing British surgeon Dr Matthew Nolan, who finds himself battling to survive when he’s caught up in a sinister political conspiracy.
At the start of this week’s first episode, we see a drunk and disoriented Matthew racing through the streets of Beijing before crashing his car. The wounded surgeon immediately boards a flight home to the UK, only to be arrested on arrival at Heathrow, accused of murder and extradited back to Beijing.
This story is from the April 20, 2024 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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