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In advance of this week's broadcast of Banished in Australia, new behind the scenes photos from fiming the series on location, have been shared on The Guardian website.

A few more articles about Banished and the making of the series, have been shared online. Banished starts tomorrow night, on BBC2 at 9pm.

One of the first production decisions taken was that all of the exteriors would be shot on location in Sydney, before relocating to Manchester to film the interior scenes. Giving a tour of the set, production designer Claire Kenny explains that the tents and wooden buildings that have been constructed in Manchester are a third larger than their Australian counterparts, to allow more room for cameras to move inside. She says the interiors are "historically accurate" because the settlers who left Britain in 1787 kept a detailed inventory of everything they took on the long voyage. BBC

The BBC has shared a longer launch trailer for Banished on the official website, and You Tube which includes a glimpse of Joseph as Major Ross. The same trailer has been broadcast on the BBC channels. Sarah-Jane Potts has continued to share behind the scenes photos of Joseph from filming Banished, on Twitter. 

The briefest of glimpses from BBC2's Banished was shown during the new Original British Drama trail on BBC1 last night. A two minute clip from the show has been uploaded to the BBC website, and can be accessed as a hot spot from the original trailer, or can be watched here. I also uploaded it to You Tube for easy viewing, until the BBC uploads it. There is lots of Joseph being not very pleasant in the clip...