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.
Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) will return to the historic Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, northern England, to film a second series of period drama The Mill. The new series will move forward in the mill’s history and chart the lives of workers from the late 1830s.
Marvel’s action sequel Thor: The Dark World filmed on location in and around London and was based at Pinewood Shepperton Studios. Stage work involved building the grandiose sets of Thor’s home Asgard, while the production focused on the logistics of filming central London.
The BBC has reiterated plans to increase its Northern Ireland location filming in the coming years. In 2012 the corporation filmed just 1.3% of its overall content in the region - including crime drama Line of Duty - but it wants to more than double this figure by 2016.
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.
New BBC miniseries From There To Here will star Philip Glenister and will film on location in and around Manchester in northern England. The story begins with the IRA bomb that struck the city in 1996, and spans four years through to the Millennium celebrations.
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.
Filming for the BBC’s upcoming drama The Thirteenth Tale has filmed partly on location at the 17th Century Burton Agnes Hall in Yorkshire, northern England. The 90-minute film is a psychological mystery that includes flashbacks to the 1940s.