Netflix’s highly-anticipated adaptation of murder-mystery novel The Thursday Murder Club will be chock-full of Buckinghamshire scenery if a flurry of road closures for filming is anything to go by - but crews may not have been counting on the drizzly September weather.

The celebrity-packed production – which includes Helen Roster, Pierce Brosnan and David Tennant amongst its cast – will return to Stratton Road in Beaconsfield this week for further filming in the affluent residential area, but which day shooting falls on will depend on a factor out of even Steven Spielberg’s control – the weather.

Spielberg’s company Amblin Entertainment – under the guise of Thursday Productions – has secured permission to close Stratton Road for one day this week between 8am and 5pm, subject to the ever-unpredictable September forecast.

The permission, which expires on Friday, September 13, comes after prior filming on the stretch in July and a three-day closure of The Red Lion pub in Little Missenden last week as production took over the building alongside the adjoining Village Road.

Osman’s best-selling murder mystery novel – the first in what is currently a four-book series – is based in the picturesque (and fictional) town of Fairhaven in Kent and follows four plucky retirees as they help the police solve two murders.

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While a summery setting isn’t a crucial part of The Thursday Murder Club, which began shooting in the UK back in June, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Osman, Spielberg and director Chris Columbus want to avoid a cameo from the recent spell of bad weather seen across the county.

The series also shot in Theale, Berkshire, in August – with locals spotting hints that the private Englefield Estate would stand in for Coopers Chase Retirement Village in the adaptation, including signage and – more explicitly – a photo of the cast and crew outside nearby St Mark’s Church uploaded to Osman’s social media.

This month will be your last chance to spot an A-Lister at the corner store or at the end of your drive, with production set to wrap up at the end of September ahead of a release on Netflix late next year. Have you had any such luck so far?