Shepperton

The other thing that comes with that, and they also, by the way, can't do any casting officially until then.

I mean, they could have conversations with returning actors and be like hey if we did this thing would you be game for coming back I would not be surprised if that those types of conversations have happened but they can't do anything official they can't put any contracts or whatever until things have been greenlit they were also waiting for and this was a really big piece of news back in August Shondaland announced that they had signed another five-year extension of their contract with Netflix so this partnership is really important obviously it's one that's really important to Netflix and to Shondaland both Netflix built them the studio at Shepperton to make Bridgerton and to make other shows.

They want this partnership to continue.

So that, and I remember speculating when that news came out, I was like, oh, is this the thing that we've been waiting for to get a spinoff announcement? Turns out it was because they have now announced the spinoff.

Um, and the tether broke and the glass dropped off the crane and it floated down like a, a leaf, uh, and came across and chopped off David Warner's head.

And, um, you know, there were a number of problems with that is one, we were shooting it on Shepperton back lot, which didn't really have the skyline of Jerusalem.

Um, and it's the last sort of thing you wanted to shoot on location in Jerusalem.

Um, and, uh, [clears throat] I used to lie in the bath every night puzzling over these problems.

This reading by Stefan Möbius, The War of the Worlds, Chapter Twelve.

What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton.

As the dawn grew brighter, we withdrew from the window from which we had watched the Martians and went very quietly downstairs.

The artilleryman agreed with me that the house was no place to stay in.

We saw as we crossed the railway bridge that a growing crowd of people had assembled in and about the railway station and the swarming platform was piled with boxes and packages.

The ordinary traffic had been stopped, I believe, in order to allow of the passage of troops and guns to Chertsey, and I have heard since that a savage struggle occurred for places in the special train that were put on at a later hour.

We remained at Weybridge until midday, and at that hour we found ourselves at the place near Shepperton Lock, where the Wey and Thames join.

Part of the time we spent helping two old women pack a little car.

Chapter 12.

What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton.

As the dawn grew brighter, we withdrew from the window from which we had watched the Martians and went very quietly downstairs.

The artilleryman agreed with me that the house was no place to stay in.

We saw as we crossed the railway bridge that a growing crowd of people had assembled in and about the railway station, and the swarming platform was piled with boxes and packages.

The ordinary traffic had been stopped, I believe, in order to allow of the passage of troops and guns to Chertsey, and I have heard since that a savage struggle occurred for places in the special trains that were put on at a later hour.

We remained at Weybridge until midday, and at that hour we found ourselves at the place near Shepperton Lock, where the Wey and Thames join.

Part of the time we spent helping two old women to pack a little cart.

And you're like, all right, do like four strokes of front crawl, and then breaststroke, and get your breath back, and then go again, and then go again.

And I think you took me straight on the 750-meter loop at Shepperton.

When I first met you at the lake, I'd have worn a towel to the lake, Celine.

I'd have worn maybe two towels and they would have been put on the side of the lake and I'd have run in the lake as quickly as possible so that nobody could possibly see my dreadful body.