Lesley Sharp, when describing filming with her husband, Nicholas Gleaves, who plays her on-screen lover, said, "there aren't too many people who can go to work and have an affair with their husband".
Lesley Sharp (DC Janet Scott) & Nicholas Gleaves (DS Andy Roper) have been married to each other in real life since February 1994. The couple have two children together.
The directing of Scott & Bailey is undertaken in a method whereby "each director directs a 'block' of two or three episodes, dictated by the schedule - when each episode has finished shooting, the director goes into the edit and a new director takes over for the next block".