Allegra Stratton: Britain Gets Shaken and Stirred
The crew worked all summer in heavenly Devon, then decamped across the Atlantic to film the night-time shenanigans in fake movie-set dorms with ersatz English dappled light pouring through unreal windows. We chose to ignore this.
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