A crew shooting a BBC show were forced to stop filming after a dead body was discovered on set.
The incident came after the crew headed to a park to shoot a scene for Rellik. However they were then stopped by police after officers found an actual body in the area.
The corpse was discovered near Cambridge Heath, east London, where the BBCers had themselves arrived to film a segments involving a dead body.
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Actor Paterson Joseph told the Sunday Mirror: "The crew arrived to film their own dead body and the police told them they weren't able to, because they'd found a real dead body.
"It was bizarre, fact being stranger than fiction."
The 53-year-old actor said that wasn't the only weird going-on during the filming of the show.
Joseph added: ""There were a lot of strange coincidences. Richard [Dormer], who plays our main character, getting impetigo and his face being covered in blotches and blemishes.
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"He got the same reaction as his actual character, who's been scarred in an acid attack. We found that odd.
"Then there was the acid attacks which happened at the same time as we were filming ours. It's a strange show when it brings out these coincidences."
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Rellik, which also stars Game of Thrones actor Richard Dormer, quite literally turns the crime detective drama format upside down - more observant readers may already have realised that the show's title spells out 'killer' backwards.
Have a look at the trailer here:
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Unlike most other shows in the genre, Rellik begins with a killer being caught, but this is only the beginning. As the show moves backwards in time the viewer learns that not everything about the crime and the killer is as straightforward is it might have appeared.
Rellik explores what makes a serial killer and what goes through the mind of the cop who is compelled to relentlessly track them down.
If you're not dying to watch the first episode already then you might be when you find out that the brains behind it were also responsible for hit series, The Missing. If that's still not enough to make you watch surely the fact that Richard Dormer has the starring role will be an incentive.
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