The cemetery scene

Sheila Hockin: The morning that we were to shoot the funeral, there was just supposed to be a light dusting of snow on the ground, but when we got up, there was a massive snowstorm. David Wellington, who was directing the episode, phoned me and said, "This is just a disaster." The crew couldn't work. Everybody was soaking wet. It was a horrible situation to try to shoot in. He said, "We're thinking maybe we should relocate the scene into the cemetery's church." About ten minutes later he called me back and said, "No, no, we're going to do this. We're going to shoot outside." And the resulting scene is one of the most beautiful things that I've seen on television because you can't buy that kind of production value. It's just a blanket of snow falling on these people and this beautiful crane shot. After we delivered that episode to the network, they called and said, "My God, this is one of the most beautiful shots we've ever had on the airwaves."

The music

Scott McFayden: We used Badly Drawn Boy when Brian is bowling in the street after his dad died. That scene was hard because we originally had a Beck song temped in. It was a difficult process looking for an alternative, and everyone was so stuck on the Beck song, but it was a song that was really personal to Beck and he didn't want to license it. When we did put in Badly Drawn Boy, it was actually something that ended up working better. People really responded to it. It's one of the most downloaded songs and the most-asked-about songs when you read the show website. That definitely had an effect.