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Noughts + Crosses series two to begin South Africa filming in June
Produced by Mammoth Screen for the BBC, the second series of Noughts + Crosses will consist of four 60-minute episodes. Filming begins in South Africa in June, where the first series shot in 2018. The series is speculative fiction describing an…
Bristol welcomes four major new BBC and ITV dramas
BBC dramas Showtrial, The Girl Before and Chloe, as well as The Long Call for ITV started rolling cameras in Bristol in April. All four dramas will feature Bristol locations and The Long Call will use the city as a…
BritBox launches in the UK a week after Apple TV plus
As competition heats up in the streaming landscape, BBC and ITV launch joint venture BritBox in the UK. The service is marketed as the biggest collection of British Box Sets available from a single streaming service featuring past, present and…
AppleTV’s Shantaram to film in Victoria, Australia
Airing on Apple+, the Paramount TV and Anonymous Content production is based on the semi-autobiographical novel from Gregory David Roberts. Shantaram depicts Roberts' life after escaping from a maximum security prison in Mebourne in 1980, and fleeing to India. The ten-part…
Ninth season of Vera filmed in Northumberland
Vera, ITV’s most watched drama of 2018 returned to the North East to film its ninth series. The popular crime drama starring Brenda Blethyn (War and Peace, Atonement) as Vera, Detective Chief Inspector of Northumberland and City Police is as…
Downton Abbey movie wraps filming
The Downton Abbey movie wrapped filming after a fifty-day shoot on the 30th November. The Carnival Films and NBCUniversal production filmed around the UK in locations familiar to fans to the hit TV series. Three years after the sixth season…
LS Productions marks opening of new Manchester office with the hire of Abi Atkinson
Today, the UK’s largest full-service production company, LS Productions, open the doors to LS Productions Manchester – its dedicated new hub for shoots in the North of England. Since its expansion to a UK-wide service in 2015, LS has produced…
Michael Bay brings the Transformers series to Namibia, the UK and Arizona in The Last Knight
The fifth instalment in Michael Bay’s highly successful Transformers series was shot in locations throughout Namibia, parts of the UK and in Phoenix, Arizona. On an estimated budget of USD217 million, principal photography lasted for almost eight months, spanning May…
Thomas Edison biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch filmed in Brighton
The Current War, a biographical film about the business rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, was on location at the Pavilion Gardens in Brighton over the weekend. The iconic Royal Pavilion, which was erected in 1787, was used as…
BBC’s The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses filmed on location throughout the UK
The continuation of BBC’s The Hollow Crown series entitled, The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses was filmed on location in multiple areas throughout the UK. The production travelled to Wells Cathedral (Somerset), Ashridge Estate (Hertfordshire), Haddon Hall (Bakewell),…