TV to reflect reality (From Penarth Times)

TV to reflect reality

PENARTH played its part in filming for a brand new television show this week.

Caerdydd - a new S4C production - follows a group of successful twenty-somethings through their daily activities, and includes their love affairs and sex lives.

The production crew have used locations in Penarth as well in Cardiff for filming.

Scenes in the town include Welsh composer Huw Rhys auditioning for Star Search at the Penarth Conservative Club on Stanwell Road, where he is spotted by a record producer who takes him to Cafe One across the street.

Further scenes will be shot in Penarth as one of the lead characters owns a noodle bar in the town.

Bafta Wales actor of the year, Ryland Teifi, and Siwan Morris, who was in Mine All Mine, both star in the new production.

Laura Cotton from S4C said: "It's a very different kind of production for us.

"It's one of the first series where English-speaking actors have main parts. "Characters such as waiters and police officers are also English-speaking to make the series more realistic.

"It's probably around 80 percent Welsh to 20 percent English."

The series follows the lives of six young people including a property developer, a record shop owner and a single mother.

Actors starring in the series are Lee Havem Jones who recently played Romeo at the Welsh National Theatre, and Rhian Green and Rachel Isaac, who featured in the popular comedy series The Office.