Landmarks Watching ITV’s The Widower last night, which, by transplanting the Sky Tower into the background via CGI, purports to place the Irish setting in Auckland. The Opel Omega is a giveaway, as is the fictional billboard for the Interislander ferry service. (As far as I could tell, UK-based actor James Laurenson was the only Kiwi cast in the mini-series, the first time I have seen him act with his original accent.) It’s an old trick: I’ve seen San Francisco in LA on Journeyman, and, in the second photo, St Paul’s (unconvincingly) at the end of a street in Birmingham in Hustle. This is a sign of a nation’s maturity though: that we have a landmark that can be used in international productions that foreign viewers might recognize. Twenty years ago, what could they have used?