A large TV crew for a crime thriller has pitched up in central Cardiff. Filming for BBC series Wolf, based on Mo Hayder's popular Jack Caffery novels, is taking place on Thursday at Fitzhamon Embankment.
When we visited the location opposite the Principality Stadium this morning, the road was not closed but there was a long line of parked crew vehicles and a scene was being filmed in a house. There were eight vans, two lighting trucks, one 'Elite Vehicle Services' truck, a coffee table with bottles of Monin syrup, a portable toilet block and a stretch of pavement sheltered by tarpaulins. Crew members were chatting in the space which on Sundays is used by Riverside Market. You can get the latest news from Cardiff by signing up to our daily newsletter.
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Wolf — which is also being filmed in Monmouthshire — stars some big Welsh names, such as Game of Thrones' Iwan Rheon and Line of Duty's Sian Reese-Williams. Ukweli Roach plays detective Inspector Jack Caffery, who believes his neighbour murdered his 10-year-old brother in the 1990s. Meanwhile the wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family find themselves targeted by a psychopath.
Reese-Williams — currently starring in the BBC Wales drama Hidden which you can read about here — will play detective Inspector Maia Lincoln, while Rheon and Sacha Dhawan take the roles of two professionals forced together on a job. Juliet Stevenson stars as Matilda Anchor-Ferrers, a clever but self-obsessed housewife, while Owen Teale plays her rich on-screen husband Oliver.
Wolf is being produced by Hartswood Films, the company behind Sherlock and Dracula. The BBC has not announced when the show will air, but said the show will be coming to BBC One and iPlayer.
