Hello peeps. Here’s a photo of me shattering my thin veneer of professionalism and grinning like a loon next to Sarah Jane Smi🔴th’s car. It was taken on Friday, in the drive of 13 Bannerman Roaꦅd in Ealing... Oh, alright - a street in Penarth, near Cardiff!

Although the Sarah Ja♈ne Adventures team are close to completing filming for season two, on Friday they happened to be shooting some pick-ups for the second episode of𝔉 the series. So I was able to watch as Maria and her Dad said their goodbyes to their friends, before leaving for a new life overseas...

Elisabeth Sladen was the consummate professional, coming over to chat with the assembled journos (sweating 🐲in the afternoon sun) and making sure that we were all being watered. After the shoot there was time to interview Lis, Tommy Knight (Luke Smith), Danny Anthony (Clyde Langer) a🐼nd new girl Anjli Mohindra, who plays Rani Chandra (a girl whose family moves into Maria's old house).

Highlight of the day? Well, the catering van’s vegetable curry was pretty impressiv👍e (mmmm, curry), but it’s got to be either Tommy and Danny doing the lambada in-between takes to keep themselves entertained, or the gobsmacking sight of Sarah Jane Smith flipping the bird at a passing car! Gasp! Why? Well, you’ll have to wait until a future issue of SFX t♛o find that out...

Ian Berriman
Season two of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on BBC One this Autumn.