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BBC starts filming second series of The Musketeers on location in Prague
Filming has started on location in Prague for the second season of the BBC’s adventure series The Musketeers. As with the first series, the drama is doubling the Czech Republic for 17th Century Paris in a story inspired by Alexandre…
New TV series Olympus to film gods and monsters in London and Vancouver
New TV series Olympus will film on location in London and Vancouver. Cable channel Syfy has ordered the series that will be set in an ancient world of gods and monsters. Reunion Pictures and Olympus TV in association with Great…
Channel 4 in the UK to invest in international co-productions
Channel 4 in the UK has announced plans to invest in drama co-productions, both internationally and in Britain. Simon Maxwell has been appointed the channel’s first Head of International Drama. “These are exciting times for television drama,” said Maxwell: “Never…
Nicole Kidman filming Australian-Irish co-production Strangerland in Sydney
Nicole Kidman has started filming new Australian-Irish co-production Strangerland on location in and around Sydney. Kidman and Joseph Fiennes star as a couple whose teenage children go missing in the Australian desert and Hugo Weaving is the detective who leads…
Historical drama New Worlds films on location at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol
Historical miniseries New Worlds filmed on location in and around Bristol in south-west England and was based at the city’s Bottle Yard Studios. Set during the Restoration period of the 1680s, the drama follows the lives of four young people…
Vikings TV drama gets third series filming on location in Ireland
Historical drama Vikings has been given a third series and will continue to film on location in County Wicklow, Ireland, with a base at Ashford Studios outside Dublin. The show was History Channel’s first scripted series and tells the story…
BBC filming First World War memoir Testament Of Youth in Yorkshire and Oxford
An adaptation of Vera Brittain’s First World War memoir Testament Of Youth is filming on location in the UK in Yorkshire, Oxford and London. Heyday Films and BBC Films are co-producers on the adaptation of the 1933 memoir. Brittain’s memoir…
Dwayne Johnson disaster feature San Andreas prepares for Australia filming
Production is gearing up in Queensland, Australia, for disaster movie San Andreas, which will feature action star Dwayne Johnson. Queensland will double for California in the story of a helicopter pilot searching for his daughter in the aftermath of a…
History Channel could film in south-west US for new Western miniseries Texas Rising
The History Channel could film in the south-west US for its new Western miniseries, tentatively titled Texas Rising. Featuring a cast led by Bill Paxton and Brendan Fraser, the drama will be History's second Western after Hatfields & McCoys, which…
AICP President and CEO Matt Miller on the US commercial filming industry
Matt Miller spent five years with the Association of National Advertisers before joining the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). He set to work developing the day-to-day structure and this April will mark his twentieth year with the organisation as…