The basic visual feature depicts the interior scene from an upper diagonal with the roof, ceiling and sometimes inner partitions removed.

Clicking on these takes you to an interior scene including people.

Along the way studio walls fly apart to become scene transitions, and memories and flashbacks are projected on to interior scenes.

The interior scenes are painted in gold leaf.

The first episode, which combined computer graphics for the outside with gritty filming of interior scenes, was certainly, however, an antidote to the current spate of twee costume dramas.