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Calgary doubles for Minnesota for filming of Fargo TV miniseries
A TV miniseries based on the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning 1996 crime drama Fargo has started filming on location in Calgary in Alberta, Canada. The city is doubling for locations in northern Minnesota and is being supported by the Alberta Multimedia…
Velocity Films shoots on location in Johannesburg for J&B Scotch Whisky
Velocity Films shot on location in Johannesburg for a new spot for J&B Scotch Whisky. Made Different tells the story of Sbusiso Leope and his rise through the ranks of the music industry in Johannesburg and wider South Africa as…
Period TV drama The Mill to film second series on location in Cheshire
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…
BBC reiterates plans to increase Northern Ireland location filming
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…
Film Polska Productions: Poland calling Bollywood
With the sole reason of presenting Poland as a potential shooting destination to the Indian Film Industry, Polish Tourist Organisation (POT) and Film Polska Productions jointly organised an official Indian producers' fam trip to Poland. The trip turned out to…
Park City Film Studios breaks ground in Utah
Construction has begun on Park City Film Studios near Salt Lake City in Utah with a ground-breaking ceremony. Over the course of a staged development, the studio will eventually offer a main 45,000-square-foot sound stage and a smaller divisible 15,000-square-foot…
BBC crime drama By Any Means films Birmingham doubling for London
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…
HBO comedy series Looking films on location in San Francisco
New HBO comedy series Looking is filming on location in San Francisco. The show will follow the lives of three gay men and is filming a full season after shooting the pilot in the California city in April this year.…
Period gangster drama Peaky Blinders films on location in Yorkshire
Period gangster TV drama Peaky Blinders filmed on location in the Yorkshire city of Leeds in the north of England, doubling the region for Birmingham. Set in 1919, the series charts a story of gang warfare in the city slums…
BBC Worldwide to boost UK filming spend by 10% for next 12 months
BBC Worldwide will be boosting its UK filming spend by 10% for the next 12 months, bringing the total to GBP200 million. Drama productions on the scale of The White Queen are likely to be among the type of projects…