Regional Case Studies

All of the UK’s regions offer an ever-growing range of production facilities, diverse locations and expertly skilled crew, with continually increasing access to new and alternative shooting spaces.

NW England

A Master of Circumstance
L-R Ewan McGregor as Count Rostov and Alexa Goodall as Nina in A Gentleman in Moscow episode 1, streaming on Paramount+ 2024. Photo Credit: Ben Blackall/Paramount+ With Showtime

East meets west

Who’d have thought you could double parts of Bolton for 1920s Russia? Well that’s what the makers of Paramount+ mini-series, A Gentleman in Moscow, did. 

Yorkshire

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Dales delight

If you wanted to find a series that showed off the beauty of filming in the UK, you’d be hard pressed to find a better one than All Creatures Great and Small. Both the original BBC version and now the modern one for Channel 5.

Northern Ireland

Old Guy

‘Shooting’ space

Sharing filming space with the United States Secret Service ahead of President Joe Biden’s arrival is not ideal prep. But that’s what the team of action thriller, Old Guy, had to contend with when shooting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Scotland

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Remote rewards

When the production and location teams of drama The Outrun decided to film on the Orkney islands in Scotland for story accuracy, they weren’t expecting to have to compete with cows, wait a while for lambing and be followed around by interested locals.

SE England

Wicked

Wicked locations

The scale and scope of Universal’s film adaptation of the popular stage musical, Wicked, has been absolutely massive. Taking in major studio facilities, thousands of crew and dancers, huge sets and striking real locations, including munchkin land on a farm and a field of nine million tulips.