ITV drama before they aired in the UK.The actor explained the show had a “pause in filming” long before coronavirus lockdown restrictions halted production on numerous programmes.In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Neil divulged that ITV needed to “juggle” the show around sporting events a couple of years ago, which delayed filming and left producers with a “backlog of episodes”.The DCI John Barnaby star revealed: “I think this has only happened in the last two years or so because the year before last we didn’t film because ITV had got a kind of backlog of episodes.“They had about eight episodes that hadn’t been broadcast and I think there was a World Cup coming up or something and they were just trying to figure out how much.
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