page_title: Broadchurch (series 2)
section_title: Location shooting
hierarchical_section_title: Broadchurch (series 2) / Production / Principal photography / Location shooting
caption_attribution_description: English: HM Prison Reading Built in 1844 and immortalised by Oscar Wilde in his Ballad of Reading Gaol. He wrote De Profundis whilst serving his sentence here from 1895 to 1897. Today it houses young offenders. For more information see Reading (HM Prison).
context_page_description: The second series of the British crime drama Broadchurch began airing on the ITV broadcast network in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2015. The eight-episode series focused on the continuing fallout of the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer in the fictional, close-knit coastal town of Broadchurch in Dorset, England. The series focuses on the effect of Joe Miller's trial on his wife, former DS Ellie Miller; the Latimer family's struggle to achieve a normal life during Joe's trial; and new revelations that former DI Alec Hardy is protecting a witness in the failed Sandbrook child murder case.
  Although Broadchurch was conceived as a trilogy, the second series was only announced on 22 April 2013 as series one ended. Writing occurred over most of the following year, with series creator and lead writer Chris Chibnall using a plot-development process he used for the first series. The return of series stars Olivia Colman and David Tennant and some of their returning co-stars was reported by the media in late 2013, although both returning and new cast members were not formally announced by ITV until May 2014. Filming began in late May 2014 under the supervision of four directors.
context_section_description: Much of Broadchurch series two was shot on location. Chibnall felt location shooting was critical to the mood and tone of series two, much as it was for series one. While many crime dramas are shot in gritty, urban locations, Chibnall believed that the bucolic Jurassic Coast setting signalled to viewers that Broadchurch was not a typical detective programme. Producer Richard Stokes said that the Dorset area provided "that sense of the extraordinary, [that] the tragic and the terrible [can] happen in a rather beautiful and moving environment." Early in the pre-production process, the producers and location managers discussed filming in locations other than Dorset. Among the areas considered were cliff locations near Bristol; Essex; Hastings in East Sussex; Kent; and Weston-super-Mare in Somerset. But the producers felt none of the locations could replicate the look of the Jurassic Coast, and the quality of the light in each area was different from that in Dorset.
  Filming began in late May 2014, with the first cast read-through occurring on 22 May. About 70 cast and crew worked on Broadchurch series two, and each episode took 12 and a half days to complete. Joel Holmes was the production's location manager. The code name "Tea and Sympathy" was used as a cover to disguise as much of the production's activities as possible.
  Shooting primarily occurred in the counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset. Most filming occurred in the town of Clevedon in Somerset, with some filming in Bristol. The production spent nearly three months filming at the University of Exeter in the city of Exeter in Devon. Extensive shooting was also done in West Bay in Dorset, where the production used the Station Road Car Park for its production trailers and offices. A car park next to the West Bay Hotel in Bridport served as the production's base camp while filming in that area, while the Rivermead Leisure Centre car park served as production headquarters in Reading, Berkshire. The John Nike Leisuresport Complex served as production headquarters in Bracknell, Berkshire.
  David Tennant took a break from filming the second series to shoot episodes of Broadchurch's American remake, Gracepoint. He returned to the Broadchurch series two production about 15 September 2014.
  The production team was strongly criticised by the West Bay Coastguards in June 2014 for filming too close to the edge of East Cliff at West Bay. Severe weather and recent rockslides left the cliffs unstable, and a Coastguard volunteer said the production team should have used stakes, safety lines, harnesses, and helmets. A spokesperson for the Broadchurch production defended the film crew, noting that the production team received all necessary filming permits, visited the site numerous times to ensure safety, and took other reasonable health and safety precautions.
  Filming for series two of Broadchurch concluded just before midnight on 12 October 2014. Final scenes were shot at the village of Eype.
caption: HM Prison Reading provided interior and exterior locations for the fictional Wessex Prison
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