Where was ITV’s Gone filmed? ...Middle East

ITV thriller Gone stars David Morrissey as the headmaster of a renowned private school who is suspected of killing his wife.

After Sarah Polly, a music teacher at the same school, is reported missing by Michael and their daughter Alana, also a teacher there, her body is later discovered in some woodland near the family home.

But is Michael really capable of murder? DS Annie Cassidy, played by Eve Myles, is immediately suspicious given his complete lack of emotion, of any kind, in the immediate aftermath.

"He's a product, certainly, of his institution," explained Morrissey to Radio Times when asked if his restraint indicates something sinister, or is simply who he is.

"He's a man who wants, needs to be in control, and that's worked for him. He feels it's worked for him for years. He treats life the way he treats his school and in a way, he's given up his personal life in order to take on this role of the headmaster of this school, which is more than a school. It's a business, and he's the CEO of the business.

"But once he gets into crisis, it's about someone asking him to feel things, the situation is asking him to feel things, and he's unable to do that. He's not exercised that muscle in himself for a long time – vulnerability, humanity, love, connection. All those things."

Morrissey also hinted at events in Michael’s past which could explain why he is the way he is.

"Hyper independence is a trauma syndrome, and I think that is something that's happened to him," he said. "He's so independent and so controlling, and when that's challenged it comes out in quite difficult ways, and can be quite volatile. And I think that's very recognisable to a lot of people. That can happen in male behaviour.

"And he certainly doesn't want to get involved in the investigation, and there's reasons behind that, but he's just not going to go there. And that makes him deeply suspicious."

Running along the central storyline is a cold case which haunts Annie eight years on – something that is compounded by the close relationship she has formed with the victim's mother.

That strand of the story is based on the real-life murder of Melanie Road, a 17 year old who was sexually assaulted and murdered while on her way home from a night out with friends in Bath back in June 1984.

It was former Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay of Gloucestershire Police who solved the cold case murder more than three decades later.

"It's a fascinating story, it's an extraordinary case to follow," Myles told Radio Times.

"Coming to something having an anniversary on Crime Watch after 25 years to highlight that the killer hadn't been caught for this horrendous crime , for Julie to come in after that 25 year anniversary and six years later catch the killer is an extraordinary thing to do.

"So I'm really pleased that it was spotted and that it's been highlighted. It's a story that should absolutely be celebrated, and Julie should be celebrated."

A good chunk of the action in Gone unfolds at the school and the Polly house, alongside a number of other locations – which viewers will likely recognise due to the distinctive look and feel of the city where the production was based.

For more information about where the cast and crew pitched up, read on.

Gone filming locations

Gone was filmed in and around Bristol.

The school that features in the series is Downside School in Stratton-the-Fosse, a real public school in Bath. 

"Some of the boys from that school are in the rugby team, and the Polly house is around the corner from there and overlooks the whole valley and the Bristol Channel," said Morrissey. 'It was a beautiful, beautiful house.

"And we did lots of driving over Clifton Bridge as well."

Some of the on-location filming spots included (via The Bottle Yard Studios):

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Sets for the police station and various interiors of the Polly house were built at The Bottle Yard Studios, which is the largest film and TV studio in the West of England.

"So we had the best of both worlds, really," said Eve Myles. "We had great locations and great sets. It's Bristol. It has everything to offer a film company."

Gone premiered on Sunday 8 March on ITV1 and ITVX.

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