Did you know that...
... Kris Marshall does all his own stunts.
... Kris Marshall was voted Best Comedy Newcomer at the 2003 British Comedy Awards.
... Andrew Scott won Best Actor at the Irish Film & Television Awards 2003 beating Colin Farrell and Aiden Quinn!
... Danny's Beagle 2 T shirt in THE SHINING is a reference to the Apollo 12 jumper that Danny wears in the original film.
... Kubrick asked that his extras refrain from nodding at all times in the original film (he thought it looked fake) - our 3rd AD knew this and told our extras in THE SHINING not to nod.
... The cinema customer in REAR WINDOW is the writer.
... The voice of the man on the roof at the end of THE SHINING is the producer.
... Only one of the main three actors can drive.
... The BELMONDO cinema doesn't exist. It was a set. Nevertheless, it only took 20 minutes before the first customers tried to buy a ticket.
... The engagement party establishing shot in EIGHT AND A HALF is the longest take in the series.
... The script Art pitches at the end of each episode is an actual film.
... There is no foul language in the entire series.
... Three episodes were shot on film, three on tape.
... We auditioned over 50 actors for the part of Jones.
... The Hitchcock look-a-like in REAR WINDOW shares the same birthday as the great man himself.
... Nobody mentions a first name for Jones in the entire series.
... In the pilot for My Life in Film the part of Jones was played by Stephen Merchant who co-wrote The Office.
... Toby MacDonald and Kris Marshall first worked together on Toby's award winning short film, "Je t'aime John Wayne"
... Art and Jones' flat was shot entirely on a studio set at Twickenham Studios
... One of the grotesque faces seen at the start of EIGHT AND A HALF was a good friend of the actor who played the producer in the original Fellini film.
... The number on the cinema ticket at the start of each episode is the date of birth of the editor.
... The CAHIERS DU CINEMA magazine Art reads in SHALLOW GRAVE is the one with the SHALLOW GRAVE review in.
... The poster outside Art's bedroom changes every episode.
... One of the postmen in BUTCH AND SUNDANCE is our third assistant director.
... Art smokes a cigarette in only one scene.
... The first draft of the first episode was first written in the summer of 2000.
... After Kris, "Lars" was the first person we cast.
... The telephone in the boys' flat moves from episode to episode.
... The scene with the most set-ups is the fight at the end of SHALLOW GRAVE.
... The last shot filmed was of Jones delivering the note to Lars.