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.
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".
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".