The former BBC drama chief, who spent eight years in the U.S. working on shows including HBO’sbelieves that the drama can be a turning point for filming in Wales, Bad Wolf’s base, in the same way thathelped grow the industry in Northern Ireland.
The creative team essentially filmed seasons one and two back-to-back with only four weeks of shooting left of season two ahead of its debut. “We mainly wanted to make sure that we didn’t wait too long because otherwise by the time we came to film again, [Dafne Keen] could be 18 months older and at that age, you grow up very fast and season two picks up days after season one ends. We had that to consider. The BBC and HBO got that because it takes a year to post-produce,” Tranter said.
, she is 19/20. “I’m not saying I could make it happen, I’m just a woman in a shed in Cardiff with a dream but we’ve got to start somewhere,” she joked.for the BBC, refers to is Wolf Studios, the 250,000 square foot studio outside of Cardiff that the pair set up with the backing of the Welsh government. She said that she believesGame of Thrones
The eight-part series, which the BBC boarded earlier this summer, is written by new British writing talent Mickey Down and Konrad Kay. Tranter praised HBO, which developed the project for a couple of years, for taking a risk on new talent and said that all the network was interested in was the quality of the writing.,” she said. Another show that is very much on the other side of the coin is Sky dramaDoctor Who’swriter and co-exec producer Lucy Prebble writing.