Lights, Camera, Action - Midlands Co-op's Small Screen Role
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Actor, Brian Capron, pictured with funeral directors from Midlands
Co-op Funeral Services (left to right) John Homer, Melinda Matthews
and Ron Percy.
Staff at Midlands Co-op’s foodstore in Erdington and funeral home in Stirchley, have excitedly hosted film crews from two well known TV programmes.
Supernanny Jo Frost, visited Midlands Co-op’s Erdington store to film scenes for the latest series of the Channel 4 programme which will be aired on 26 September.
Store Manager, Gary Morris, said: “It was very exciting for both staff and customers to have a film crew in store, especially for such a well known programme and we are looking forward to finding out if any of us managed to get in the shots when it goes out later this month.”
In Stirchley, staff at Midlands Co-op Funeral Services on Pershore Road had the chance to meet Brian Capron when the BBC used the funeral home as a backdrop for an episode in a new series of Afternoon Plays. ‘Death Becomes Him’, a black comedy about death, grief and learning to let go, will be aired early 2007.
John Homer, Funeral Director at the home, said: “It was absolutely fascinating to watch the filming take place. Although the actors and crew had been held up en route and were much later getting started than anticipated, everyone was remarkably calm and very professional. They spent almost two hours at the home and it was great to meet the actors, it’s not every day to have the chance to get involved in something like this and it was great fun.”
For more information please contact:
Alison Cooper, PR Officer / Sarah Duncan, PR Assistant
Midlands Co-op on 01543 414140
