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Harry Potter and Downton Abbey help boost England film tourism for 2014
Harry Potter and period drama Downton Abbey helped drive film tourism in England in 2014. Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, and the Dorset filming locations used for child murder drama Broadchurch, contributed to an overall spend of up to GBP 140…
Hit BBC crime drama The Fall to return to Northern Ireland filming locations
Belfast is set to host a third season of the BBC's hit serial killer drama The Fall. Gillian Anderson will return to star as Detective Inspector Stella Gibson on the trail of Jamie Dornan’s disturbed murderer Paul Spector. “I want…
Political thriller The Truth Commissioner starts filming in Belfast and Dublin
New feature The Truth Commissioner will spend the next five weeks filming on location in Belfast and Dublin, and other parts of the Republic. Belfast is home to Game of Thrones and Dublin hosts shows including Vikings and Ripper Street.…
Massachusetts becomes latest US state to propose defunding filming incentive
The Governor of Massachusetts has proposed cutting his state’s filming incentive to free up funds for other sectors of the economy. Massachusetts has hosted movies like The Fighter and American Hustle, but its 25% filming incentive is one of several…
New BBC period drama Poldark films in Cornwall and at Bottle Yard Studios
Filming for the BBC’s new period drama Poldark was based at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, and on location in Cornwall in South-West England. Set in the 1780s, the literary adaptation follows Ross Poldark as he returns to Cornwall…
BBC starts filming War And Peace on location in northern Europe and Russia
The BBC has started filming its new TV adaptation of Tolstoy’s War And Peace in Lithuania, Latvia and Russia. Paul Dano and Lily James are leading the cast in the tale that follows several aristocratic Russian families against the backdrop…
National Trust launches map of BBC’s Wolf Hall filming locations
The National Trust has published a map of the UK filming locations used for the BBC’s historical drama Wolf Hall to help boost tourism. Some 40% of the series was filmed on National Trust properties and the organisation is expecting…
Northwest Territories in Canada launches pilot filming incentive programme
A pilot filming incentive programme has been launched in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) in a bid to boost regional production. Positioned north of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, the province has hosted several documentaries and the drama series Arctic Air.…
Filming for lavish TV drama Indian Summers doubles Malaysia for 1930s India
New Pictures filmed the lavish period TV series Indian Summers on location in Penang, Malaysia, doubling the region for northern India. Set in 1932, the Channel 4 series tells a story of social drama during the dying days of the…
Murder drama The Tunnel to return to Kent for second series filming
A second series of murder drama The Tunnel will return to film on location in Kent in southern England. The show is a remake of Scandinavian drama The Bridge and the first series charted a joint English-French investigation following a…