Doctor Who season 11 location: Where was Demons of the Punjab filmed?
DOCTOR WHO season 11 tonight will see the Doctor encounter the Demons of the Punjab? But what location was the India-set episode filmed in?
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Doctor Who season 11 goes to Partition-era India tonight with Demons of the Punjab. The episode will air at 7pm on BBC One. However, though the setting for the Doctor Who episode was in India, it was actually filmed much closer to home.
Where was Demons of the Punjab filmed?
Demons of the Punjab was actually filmed in the Granada province of Spain.
News of the Doctor Who crew filming in Spain first broke in June 2016, when fans spotted the crew in the town of Aldeire.
A local website posted a sign that had been put up that featured the following sentence in Spanish: “The name of the show is Doctor Who and they have chosen our city for the scenery.”
Whovians first began to suspect they were filming an episode set in India when they noticed the actors on set were mostly of Asian heritage.
It was confirmed Demons of the Punjab was being filmed in Spain when actress Amita Suman posted an Instagram image of her on the set.
She has since been revealed to be playing a character called Umbreen in the Doctor Who episode.
This is not the first time Doctor Who has been filmed in Spain.
The first ever episode shot in Spain was the Fifth Doctor (played by Peter Davison) adventure Planet of Fire, which was partly set and filmed in Lanzarote.
Since then, the Doctor Who crew visited Spain for Sixth (Colin Baker) and Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) serial The Two Doctors and 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) adventures Asylum of the Daleks and A Town Called Mercy.
Most recently, Spain became an unnamed planet populated with emojibots in Smile from last year’s season 10 starring the 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi).
Demons of the Punjab is not the first episode of Doctor Who season 11 where one country is standing in for another.
Episode three of season 11, titled Rosa, was set in pre-Civil Rights Era Alabama.
However, the episode was actually filmed in South Africa.
South Africa was also the location where episode two, The Ghost Monument was filmed, with the country standing in for a planet called Desolation.
Other season 11 episodes like The Woman Who Fell to Earth and Arachnids in the UK were filmed in Sheffield.
The upcoming episode The Witchfinders, which stars Alan Cumming as King James I, meanwhile, was filmed in Hampshire.
Doctor Who continues tonight at 7pm on BBC One