Filming location for the first of the DW Specials....

[mtemplar_fic]

Drum roll please....

DUBAI?!? Well, at least it'll be warm!

Source here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/garethmcleanblog/2009/jan/16/1

My original guess was Tunisia, just for the record.

And also - about midway though the article: (See also the plans to film another of the specials in America.)
OH PLEASE!!!

Comments

[doctordiehard.livejournal.com]

I had heard that a hot climate and beachscape of some sort were needed, and I hoped that Florida or California would be the destination. This location is shocking indeed, for many reasons including those well-argued in the article you post.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

The article articulates a lot of the problems I've got with Dubai. I'm kinda disappointed in the Beeb. :/

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Dubai... that's... interesting.

Hopefully they won't be filming there in the summer. Also, they'd better give them a run down of what drugs you can and can't bring into that country. Even poppy seeds will land you in jail.

Personally, I'd rather go to Tunisia. That would have made the Star Wars geek in me neurotic with happiness. :)

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Dubai? There are some great futuristic buildings there, along with some primo beaches (including one with air-conditioned sand!). They could make with the pretty very easily there.

Which I suppose is the point, but it's not as though they couldn't film elsewhere... say, one of the beaches on the Mediterranean, and then have the Mill whip something up like they did for TCI.

I'm not convinced they'd be able to get DT there safely: maybe this is another one of those things like the reccy in NYC, where it's just a bit of crew going and no actors?