In Popular Culture
Doctor Who and Torchwood
The Centre has made numerous appearances in film and television including Doctor Who, whose modern era is produced locally by BBC Wales. It has appeared seven times to date: as itself from outside in the episode "Boom Town", its marquee momentarily at the end of the episode "Bad Wolf", its lobby as a hospital lobby in the far future in the episode "New Earth", and again in "The Girl Who Waited",. It also appeared briefly in the episodes "Utopia" and "The Stolen Earth", and also in the final episode of series 3, "Last of the Time Lords".
The spin-off series Torchwood, has its headquarters, known as "The Hub", set underneath the Water Tower, Roald Dahl Plass, with the Wales Millennium Centre's frontage featuring heavily through the show.
Jones Jones Jones
On 3 November 2006, a record breaking attempt to gather the most people with the same surname, Jones, took place in the Centre under the show banner Jones Jones Jones, filmed for television by S4C. The record was broken with 1,224 Joneses filling the Donald Gordon Theatre. The previous record was set in Sweden in 2004 when 583 people gathered who had the same surname of Norberg.
Gavin & Stacey
Episode 1 of the second series of BBC TV show Gavin & Stacey was filmed in the Wales Millennium Centre. The centre was supposed to be an airport.
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