Television crime drama Breaking Bad was originally set in California but New Mexico’s filming incentives prompted a script change, series creator Vince Gilligan has revealed. The show is coming to an end but inspired an increase in the state’s TV filming incentive.
American crime drama Elementary has become the latest production to film on location in Trafalgar Square in central London. The modern-day Sherlock Holmes series is usually filmed in New York but has shot in the UK for the opening of its second season.
The BBC’s new TV nursing drama Frankie filmed on location in Bristol in south-west England, using filming facilities at The Bottle Yard. A former winery and bottling plant, The Bottle Yard has been converted into a facility that offers 300,000 square feet of production space.
New TV drama Da Vinci’s Demons filmed its first season on location in and around Swansea in south Wales, doubling the region for 15th Century Italy. The show is a fictionalised account of the early life of Leonardo Da Vinci as he faces political and supernatural turmoil in Florence.
The BBC’s new drama series Atlantis is setting up studio space in a former supermarket storage building near Chepstow in Wales. Doctor Who and long-running medical drama Casualty are based at the BBC’s Roath Lock studio facility in nearby Cardiff.
Cardiff council has set up a dedicated film unit to handle the rise in demand for location filming in the Welsh capital. The new unit will manage location filming in council-owned buildings and on city roads, and will also promote Cardiff internationally.
The BBC’s family sci-fi hit Doctor Who is doubling the streets of Bristol for Victorian London. Bristol lies near the west coast of England and just across the Bristol Channel from Cardiff, where Doctor Who is based.
Hit sci-fi series Doctor Who has been filming on location in New York City for the first time. Usually the show’s based in Cardiff in Wales, but in recent years it’s been venturing further afield on location shoots, perhaps as a sign of the show’s international success.