Stark (novel) on this novel, which was subsequently made as "Stark", a television miniseries. It was a joint production by the BBC and the ABC (the British and Australian national broadcasters). Ben Elton played the lead role, with Colin Friels as Sly and Jacqueline McKenzie as Rachel. There were some differences between the novel and the miniseries; some characters were renamed, and the ending was different. Elton's subsequent two novels, "Gridlock" and "This Other Eden", also deal with environmental themes and are set in a dystopian future. "Alternative 3", a 1977 British television hoax masquerading as a documentary, shared some themes with
Gridlock (Doctor Who) "Utopia", while "Last of the Time Lords" suggest that the Face of Boe's true identity is Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman). "Gridlock" was in the third filming block for the series, along with "The Lazarus Experiment". Filming took place from mid-September to early October 2006. The episode uses "some of the largest and most complex CGI effects of all the series so far". The Motorway was entirely constructed out of CGI aside from a single car set; it was the first time an episode was set inside a "CGI world". Will Cohen, The Mill's Visual FX Producer, revealed in "Radio