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Filmed in Cheshire and Warrington
Cheshire Film Office continuously helps TV and film production
companies to make their programmes in the region.
Read about all current
productions in Cheshire and Warrington.
Previously, Cheshire and Warrington has played host to the
following productions:
FEATURE FILMS
Control
Claraflora
Productions: A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy
Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led
him to commit suicide at the age of 23. Scenes were filmed outside
Ian Curtis’s old home in Macclesfield.
TV
Crimes That Shook Britain:
Hungerford
Title Role:This programme focuses on the
Hungerford Massacre. On 19 August 1987, a small village in
Berkshire became the setting for what was then the biggest mass
murder in British history.
Living On The Edge
Lime Pictures: Following
the lives and loves of 10 glamorous and beautiful Northwest teens
living in the lap of luxury, this eight-part series for MTV was
aired from October 2007.
The Big Day
Lion TV: A series presented by
Nick Knowles, each episode sees one couple hand over the planning
and decisions surrounding their entire wedding to their families
and friends. An episode of this was filmed in and around
Warrington.
Window onto the World
TBS Vision: One of
Japan’s leading commercial TV networks came to Chester to
film several locations including Bishop Lloyds House, The Rows,
Tudor House, Eastgate Clock, Blue Bell, Pied Bull, Bear and Billet
and Chester Castle.
DRAMA
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Hat Trick North: Filming of the
second series of this popular drama about a Northern girl plucked
from obscurity by a modelling agency started in February
2007.
GoldPlated
WorldProductions: This Channel 4
production showed Cheshire’s nouveaux riche, in an eight-part
comedy drama.
Lillies
World Productions: This eight-part
drama was set in dockland Liverpool in the 1920’s but also
filmed at Ellesmere Port Boat Museum and Chester City Baths.
Blue Murder III
ITV Granada: The detective drama starring Caroline Quentin as
Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis filmed at Tatton Park and
Alderley Edge for four days in 2006.
Mark Of Cain
Red Productions: This drama
about two soldiers in Iraq filmed for a day at Mr Smith’s
Nightclub in Warrington.
Vincent II
ITV Granada: Starring Ray Winstone
and Suranne Jones, the second series of this private eye drama
filmed in Knutsford, Cheshire.
Mobile
ITV Granada: The 3x90 minute episodes
were written by John Fay (Coronation Street, Clocking Off) and
directed by Stuart Orme (Ghostboat, Cold Blood). Mobile is a
conspiracy thriller which unfolds against the backdrop of the Iraq
war and the corrupt world of the multibillion pound mobile phone
industry. This exciting new drama filmed for nine days in
Warrington and Macclesfield.
POP PROMOS
Corinne Bailey Rae
Flynn Productions: The chart-topping singer filmed the video for her single Like a Star at Doddington Hall in Nantwich.
Russell Watson
Gas & Electric: ‘The
Voice’ recorded an advert for his new album at a private
apartment in Oakmere.
· For a full list of everything ever filmed across the
Northwest, click
here.
Cheshire and
Warrington Film Office
