as he was still working on Shaun of the Dead. Instead, the episode was directed by Keith Boak. "Rose" began filming in Cardiff on 20 July 2004, as part of the first production block alongside episodes four and five. Howells doubled for the interior of Henrik's during filming on 20 July. The Autons' attack during the climax was filmed on Working Street, Cardiff from 20 to 22 July. In other scenes filmed in Cardiff on 21 July, a London bus and a van of the London Evening Standard drove by to give the illusion of London. Five days were spent filming in London. While the DVD commentary said the first five days of the shoot was in London, production notes in Doctor Who: The Complete History placed London filming from 26 to 30 July. On 26 July, the production team was given permission to add more lights to the London Eye. For the scene in which the Doctor and Rose are running through London, also on the night of 26 July, careful timing was undertaken by the production team because they wanted a London bus to travel behind them, but this had to be accomplished by waiting for a bus to come. The exterior of Rose's council estate was filmed at the Brandon Estate in London from 28 to 30 July. From 2 to 3 August, service tunnels in the basement of a hospital in Cardiff were used for the basement of Henrik's where Rose is menaced by Autons. The pizza restaurant is La Fosse. It took the production team a while to find a restaurant that would require minimal set dressing but would be willing to close for a day. The team filmed at La Fosse on 22 August. The area underneath the London Eye where the Doctor and Rose confront the Nestene Consciousness was filmed in an unused paper mill in Grangetown, Cardiff. It underwent steam cleaning because there were such high health and safety concerns. They were only permitted to film for three days, which required that some of the sequence be cut: originally, there was to be another Auton Mickey involved. Filming took place at the paper mill from 23 to 25 August. The scene where Rose joins the Doctor is at St David's Market, filmed on 26 August. The production team sought to film the Cardiff scenes in secrecy, but the day before they began