Lights, Camera, Action!

Late last week we were approached by a Niamh Kennedy, Assistant Producer at Popkorn TV making an enquiry to use the Library as a possible film location and only last night it was “Lights, Camera, Action”. Numerous crew members from the independent production company made their way up our staircase with cameras, tripods, mics, and lighting equipment.

 

Popkorn TV specializes in broadcast quality programme-making for the television and private sector, and last night’s filming ironically was an interview with the well-respected forensic psychologist, Dr Keith Ashcroft (pictured adjacent), a former member of The Portico Library. The interview will be used in a three part TV series for Channel 5 presented by Professor David Wilson. The series will examine the crimes committed by three convicted serial killers and will be broadcast in June of this year. Very interesting stuff- however, the subject matter made it all the more eerie when I was locking up that evening once filming was over!