Multiple reports say the Arctic research station depicted in the BBC thriller “Vigil” was not filmed on Svalbard, as the programme implies. Instead, outlets report that the show’s laboratory setting was recreated elsewhere, including in a Kia car showroom on the edge of Glasgow.
The reports describe the production as building a set designed to look like an inhospitable Arctic environment, while filming takes place in a studio or converted commercial space. The two cited accounts focus on the location mismatch between on-screen setting and behind-the-scenes filming, pointing to the use of a car showroom to stand in for a research facility.
Neither outlet provides additional technical detail or official confirmation within the excerpts, so viewers are left with the contrast between the programme’s depicted geography and the reported filming location. Overall, the accounts converge on the claim that the Arctic lab imagery was created using a Glasgow-based showroom set rather than an on-location Arctic site.
