Filmmaker Terence Davies is shooting period feature Sunset Song in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. The film is based on the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and tells the story of a young woman coming of age in Scotland as social turmoil ripples from the First World War.
The BBC has announced that a new series of popular crime drama Shetland will film in 2015. Set and shot on the remote archipelago of Shetland off the north-east coast of the Scottish mainland, the drama series is adapted from crime novels written by Ann Cleeves.
An Executive Producer on the US miniseries True Detective has advocated better filming incentives in Scotland. Edinburgh-born Richard Brown said that increasing the filming tax credits available in Scotland on top of the existing UK incentive could help boost the country’s appeal.
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.
British broadcaster Channel 4 will produce more content on location in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from 2020, under the terms of its new licensing agreement from regulator Ofcom.
Scotland is continuing to consider the options for large-scale film studio development and a feasibility study will be published in the near-future. Authorities face criticism that Scotland lost out on the opportunity to host a Pinewood facility, days after a new studio was announced for Cardiff.
Shoots for international shows like Elementary accounted for most of the TV spending in the UK in 2013 as a result of the new TV tax credit, according to the British Film Institute. Just over GBP230 million was spent by TV productions and nearly 65% of this came from international shoots.
Kiefer Sutherland’s new Jack Bauer action miniseries 24: Live Another Day will start filming on location in London in the next few weeks and will debut only a few months later in the spring. The production will be based at a warehouse space in the city while it films on location.