Filmed in Liverpool

Liverpool Film Office continuously helps TV and film production companies to make their programmes in the region.

Read about all current productions in Liverpool

Previously, Liverpool has played host to the following productions in 2006/07:

FEATURE FILMS

Across the Universe
Revolution Films a branch of Columbia Pictures: This romantic musical, set in the 1960’s, tells a love story through Beatles songs. It is the largest scale production to ever shoot in Liverpool with more than 150 local extras taking part in scenes which were shot in the docks area, Wavertree and New Brighton. Released autumn 2007.

Awaydays
Red Union Films: Centring on the implications of Margaret Thatcher's first government, the music of Joy Division, youth unemployment and the explosion of heroin use, filming took place thought October and November 2007.

Charlie Noads RIP
North Star Production: Written and produced by scoucers Tony Fitzmorris and his bother and acclaimed writer Neil Fitzmorris (Going Off Big-time and Phoenix Nights), this comedy follows a man’s search for gold to rescue the family business, a scrap yard.

Grow Your Own
BBC Films/Warp Films: A magical comedy by local writers Frank Cottrel Boyce (Millions, 24hr Party People) and Carl Hunter, finished production at the end of September 2006 and was released in Spring 2007. Shot entirely on Merseyside.

Sparkle
Magic Light Pictures: A feature film starring Bob Hoskins, Stockard Channing and Liverpool actor Shaun Evans, telling the tale of an opportunistic young scouser who moves to London and decides to sleep his way to the top. It was shot on location in Liverpool for two weeks in April 2006. On general release August 2007.

Offside
Tuebdale Films/Gota Film: A Swedish UK co-production between Liverpool based Tubedale Films and Gota Film of Sweden. It was shot in Sweden and Liverpool, including Anfield Football Stadium. Ian Rush, made his feature film debut, playing himself in a cameo role.

Outlaws
Syndicate Films: By Wirral-based novelist Kevin Sampson, produced by scoucer Ian Brady and shot across Liverpool in July 2007. This action-packed film follows its main character, Moby, as he tries to become somebody in the Mersey Underworld.

The Pool
Tubedale Films: Hollywood star David Morrissey (Basic Instinct 2, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin) made his film director debut in this film, which shot across Merseyside in September/October 2007. The film tells the story of a London boy who falls in love with a Liverpool girl and is shot at various locations across the city including FACT, Crosby Beach and The Slaughterhouse.

Under the Mud
Hurricane Films: The film was created, written and dramatised by a group of Liverpool teenagers, none of whom had ever experienced the media before. When it premiered at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall in early 2007, it received a standing ovation. And now it’s started on a world-wide film festival tour.

TV

Alexei's Liverpool
Oxford Film and Television: This documentary follows Anfield-born comedian Alexei Sayle as he looks at the city’s history and what it has provided for the world.

Liverpool – Atlantic City: A Time Team Special
Time Team: Tony Robinson and his Time Team have been in the city creating a dedicated documentary, looking at the city’s maritime history whilst excavating within the new buildings sites around the Pier Head.

Redgrave’s 8
Outline Productions: This documentary followed Sir Steve Regrave as he trained eight youths from Merseyside to compete in the Royal Regatta in summer of 2006.

Trauma and Trauma Uncut
BBC: This prime time BBC series went scouse in 2006. Cameras followed the life-saving work of the emergency doctors and nurses at The Royal Liverpool University Hospital as they treat over 250 patients a day.
DRAMA

Apparitions
Lime Pictures: Staring Martin Shaw (Judge John Deed and George Gently) headed the cast of this riveting and multi-layered drama, playing an exorcist battling demons in what he discovers to be the beginning of the End of Days.

Bonkers
Lime Pictures: A six-part comedy drama from the writer of At Home with the Braithwaite’s, Sally Wainwright. It shot in the city during the winter of 2006 and starred Liza Tarbuck and Mark Addey. Broadcast from Feb 2007.

Casualty 1907
TRANSMISSION DATE: 30th March, BBC One, 9pm
Stone City Films: After the 60 minute pilot, Casualty 1906, was screened on BBC One in December 2006, the feedback was so good the team behind the Docu-Drama have been re-commissioned, and came back to Liverpool.

Grange Hill
Lime Pictures: this world-famous children’s drama series is now in its 30th year and its 7th filming in Liverpool.

Hollyoaks In the City
Lime Pictures: A new drama series which follows two lead characters from the previous series of Hollyoaks Let Loose as they move to Liverpool. Staring Marcus Patric and Gemma Atkinson, the first episode of 20 hit the screens in August 2006, running on E4 until early 2007.

Lilies
World Productions for BBC Northern Ireland: Set in dockland Liverpool in the 1920's, focusing on three girls who live with their father in a terraced house. Principle photography on this tough, sexy, funny and heartbreaking drama ran from May to October 2006, with a total of 95 days of filming in the City and region.

The Outsiders
Lime Pictures: This action adventure filmed across Merseyside throughout May 2006 and hit our screens on 3rd October, with fantastic viewing figures. Shot entirely on location in Liverpool, which doubled for glamorous locations set in Paris, Milan, Malta, Barcelona, the Vatican and London, it really did show that Liverpool is a ‘world in one city’.

The Ruby in the Smoke
BBC: A period drama which broadcast during BBC’s prime-time Christmas schedule in 2006, based on Phillip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart Quartet novel and directed by scouser Brian Percival. Staring Julie Walters (Educating Rita, Calendar Girls) and Billie Piper (Dr Who), it shot on location in Liverpool for five days in June 2006 at Stanley Dock.
CONTINUOUS DRAMA SERIES (SOAPS)

Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures: This five-nights-a-week teen soap continues to film in Liverpool, although production is predominantly based around Lime’s HQ in the city.

· For a full list of everything ever filmed across the Northwest, click here.

Liverpool Film Office
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