Sussex drama delights viewers

The great authenticity of Brighton-based TV detective series Grace as it lights up our Sunday night viewing is that the series is Brighton through and through.

As producer Kiaran Murray-Smith says: “We are in Brighton and when we are in Brighton, we are 100 per cent Brighton.”

Plus a number of other locations in the immediate area besides.

Kiaran lives in Saltdean; it’s all an area he knows well; and everyone involved has been determined to create a proper Brighton/ Sussex feel.

Grace brings to the small screen Russell Lewis’s TV adaptation of Peter James’ hugely successful series of Brighton-based novels featuring detective Roy grace who is played on TV by John Simm. Alongside him are Richie Campbell as DS Glenn Branson and Craig Parkinson as DS Norman Potting.

Kiaran is delighted at the response that the ITV series has been getting: “I am very much a local lad and trying to make sure that Brighton comes across is very important, using little nooks and crannies and the views out of the windows.

“We’ve got a location manager that lives in Worthing and we just try to make everything as local as we possibly can. We know certain places and we look back at the books and talk to the writer.”