Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
Street to get TV time as part of ITV filming
Filming for a new ITV drama will take place in Airdrie later this month.
The town’s Kippen Street will be used for filming scenes of four-part crime thriller The Elect, which is set primarily in Glasgow and follows police detective Chris O’neill and his former undercover officer wife Michelle when their teenage daughter goes missing.
The programme will star Grey’s Anatomy and Trainspotting actor Kevin Mckidd, Vinette Robinson – whose credits include Doctor Who, Sherlock and Waterloo Road – along with James Cosmo and Alex Ferns.
Filming will take place on Monday,
July 18, with the road being closed to traffic for 24 hours between Rochsolloch Road and Glencraig Street.
Drivers will instead be diverted onto Deedes Street.
North Lanarkshire Council publicised the road closure for the reason of “film production”, and told the Advertiser: “House Productions are filming scenes for a new four-part ITV drama titled The Elect, which is an adaptation based on the Japanese crime novel Six Four.”
Scenes for the drama were also shot at locations in Glasgow city centre back in May.
House Productions confirmed its commission from ITV for the four-part drama in a website statement, which
is to “premiere on new free streaming service ITVX in 2023, before transferring to a linear transmission”.
The exciting thriller is based on bestselling novel Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, who added of its adaption into the Scottish screenplay: “I’m surprised and delighted in equal measure when people have found something universal in my work, and I can’t wait to see it.”
Executive producers Juliette Howell and Tessa Ross called the book “a publishing phenomenon” and said screenwriter Gregory Burke’s adaptation to the Glasgow setting “has brilliantly captured the essence of the thrilling rollercoaster of a story that so compelled all those readers”.