Series 11, Episode 1 SPOILERS!

I have some more information about the Doctor Who filming at St. Mark's Church in Gabalfa on November 15. What follows is information about the kind of scene filmed. I've mentioned this scene before on Twitter but there is more information I didn't mention before at the end of this blog post. It involves a character's family.

First, some background about the filming that day.

The first report was of Jodie Whittaker present at the church on Facebook. It was first mistakenly reported as a wedding scene.



The schedule did not permit the Jodie Whittaker photo op with the students.

It was clear later that it was not for a wedding, but a funeral with a wicker coffin.

They carried out a coffin when packing up, it was like woven straw...

— Megan Dee (@m_dee215) November 17, 2017

It was well made and structured like a normal coffin

— Megan Dee (@m_dee215) November 17, 2017

A bit like this pic.twitter.com/h4maFuHDEY

— Megan Dee (@m_dee215) November 17, 2017

I can now give you more details about this funeral. SPOILERS FOLLOW! Highlight the black bars below for the spoiler text.

The funeral scene filmed at the church involved a moving speech by Bradley Walsh's character, Graham memorializing his son, David. The scene is believed to occur early in the episode.

Edit: Sunday October 7:

The scene filmed was obviously Grace's funeral.

I think, with so many people in the crew and the many extras hired to fill the church, Bradley Walsh spoke some altered dialogue for the filming which was later changed in ADR (additional dialogue recording) in post production. Specifically, "Dave" was change to "Grace" and "he" to "she". The beginning of the scene was filmed from a distance so there was no need to make the words match his lips so he probably said "son" when he filmed that scene, which was later changed to "wife".

This is interesting in and of itself and I will certainly keep this incident in mind when reporting on Series 12 filming.