Long-running US daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful has become the first international soap to film scenes in the United Arab Emirates. The show has been screening in the US since 1987 and is spending three days this week filming at iconic locations in both Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The Disney Channel is to film a new four-part TV movie on location in the UK. Mystery drama Evermoor will shoot at Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire in northern England and will mark Disney Channel’s first live-action movie to be shot in the UK for screening in the US.
Warner Bros Television is filming the pilot for a Constantine TV series in Atlanta, Georgia. The pilot is based on the DC Comics character John Constantine, an occult conman-turned-detective who in the comics originates from Liverpool, England.
A new report has found a “clear opportunity” for a film studio to be built somewhere in Scotland to help attract more shoots on the scale of Brad Pitt's World War Z. The study was commissioned by Scottish Enterprise in partnership with Creative Scotland and the Scottish government.
The History Channel could film in the south-west US for its new Western miniseries, tentatively titled Texas Rising. Featuring a cast led by Bill Paxton and Brendan Fraser, the drama will be History's second Western after Hatfields & McCoys, which co-starred Paxton and Kevin Costner.
Filming has started in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the second series of BBC crime drama The Fall, which stars Gillian Anderson as a detective searching for a serial killer. The BBC recently reiterated plans to increase its Northern Ireland output in the coming years.
Abu Dhabi location filming for upcoming action sequel Fast & Furious 7 will take place for a few days in April. A visual effects crew shot footage on location in November last year but the main shoot was postponed after the tragic death of franchise star Paul Walker.
The BBC will start filming new historical TV drama Banished on location near Sydney, Australia, in the next few weeks. McGovern’s seven-part drama is loosely based on real events and tells the story of Britain’s first Australian penal colony in the late 18th Century.