Screen Yorkshire in northern England has secured an extra GBP7.5 million in funding from the European Regional Development Fund. The money will help fund productions filming on location in the area, which recently have included the Birmingham-set period gangster series Peaky Blinders.
An American remake of the acclaimed British miniseries Broadchurch is scheduled to start filming this month in the Greater Victoria region of British Columbia. Like the original UK series, Gracepoint will tell the story of the impact of a child murder investigation on a seaside community.
Producers of the long-running UK soap Coronation Street have unveiled the show’s new set on Salford Quays just outside Manchester. The set has been two years in the making and the show will shift from Granada Studios in central Manchester as the site is to be redeveloped.
A new series of the long-running ITV period detective drama Foyle’s War will film on location in Liverpool, doubling the Merseyside city for various UK locations including London. The drama will be set shortly after World War II and will follow Christopher Foyle, now an MI5 officer.
New BBC crime drama By Any Means filmed largely on location in Birmingham in the West Midlands region of England, doubling the city for London. The drama was the first British show to qualify for the UK’s new TV tax credit when it started filming earlier this year.
British police drama series Vera has filmed on location in Newcastle and in Northumberland in the north-east of England for its fourth season. The show follows Brenda Blethyn’s Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope as she works cases in the area.
Sian has been based on the Isle of Man since the age of eight and entered the production industry first as a featured extra and then as a runner and a Unit Manager. Her initiative and fast learning soon progressed her to Location Manager and she’s worked on some 40 projects over 13 years.
Shetland off the northern tip of Scotland will get another location filming showcase with a full series commission for the TV drama of the same name. Produced by ITV Studios for the BBC, the full series of Shetland will be based on three locally-set novels written by Ann Cleves.