FURNITURE seller Gary Witts has been shopped to the old Bill - and he's delighted!

His new store in the Lanes was picked as a location for top TV drama The Bill just days after it opened. The Argus exclusively revealed last Friday that programme makers are working on a special two-episode drama based in Brighton highlighting rogue antique knockerboys. The dodgy trade is a million miles from Gary's pine and soft furnishing store Lane Interiors, which he opened in Meeting House Lane last Monday. But the shop looked perfect for the show. Gary said: "I think it's marvellous The Bill will be filming in the shop. "The location team were just wandering around the Lanes when they saw our place and came in and explained what they wanted to do. "As we have only been open a week, I think it's great. "The only change they said they might carry out was to hang a tapestry in the window or something, otherwise the place was as they wanted it." Part of the drama will be filmed at Brighton police station and, as we reported last week, officers there are hoping to appear in background scenes. Local landmarks will also feature in the special episodes which see Sun Hill detectives DC Skase and DS Beech heading to Brighton as they track down the knockerboys. Filming for the shows begins on March 30, and is expected to take about four days.

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