Your comprehensive guide detailing TV and Film productions that have been filmed in Kent
Writer: Paul Doolan Director: Paul Murphy Starring: Jason Watkins, Sarah Parish, Stephen Tompkinson, Hugh Dennis Production Company: Roughcut TV Kent Location Used: Port of Dover- Cruise Terminal Deciding to leave the Valcro store and make a fresh start in Calais, Gavin (Jason Watkins) and Cheryl (Sarah Parish) plan to get married. When Gavin’s […]
Writer: Heidi Thomas Starring: Victoria Yeates, Jennifer Kirby, Leonie Elliot, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Jenny Agutter, Ella Bruccoleri, and Mirriam Margoyles Kent Locations Used: The Historic Dockyard Chatham The long running BBC period drama Call the Midwife is back! The series follows the lives of nurses & midwives working in the East End of […]
Starring: Toby Jones, Phil Eyden Production Company: BBC South East Kent Locations Used: Dover BBC documentary film The Lost Commando Raid was inspired by Phil Eyden’s book, Dover’s Forgotten Commando Raid, and tells the story of Operation Abercrombie, a WWII raid led by Lord Lovatt on the French Town of Hardelot in […]
Presenter: JB Gill Production Company: Kent Locations Used: Godinton, Canterbury, Pegwell Bay River Walks, a new BBC series, will showcase eleven spectacular walking routes across England, broadcast parallel in the Regions. Each episode will reveal how the waterways have shaped the local landscape, history and culture, with celebrity guests suggesting routes for picturesque […]
Writer: Deborah Moggach (Novel), Sir Tom Stoppard Director: Justin Chadwick Starring: Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne, Jack O’Connell, Christoph Waltz, Dane DeHaan, Zach Galifianakis, Judi Dench, Holliday Grainger, Matthew Morrison Kent Locations Used: Cobham Hall Tulip Fever is a film adaptation of Deborah Moggach’s (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) romantic novel of the same name, set during […]
Writer: Jayne Hibbitt-Smith Starring: Michelle Ackerley Production company: Hat Trick Kent locations used: Broadstairs, Margate, Ramsgate, Kingsdown, Dungeness The series originally ran for six seasons between 2007 and 2013 on UKTV’s Style channel. Michelle Ackerley presents the reboot of Fantasy Homes by the Sea. Each 60-minute episode follows Michelle as she takes buyers around coastal […]
Starring: Kelly Brook, Denise Van Outen and Peter Andre Production Company: STV productions Kent Locations Used: Ramsgate, Margate, Whitstable, Faversham, Sittingbourne, Maidstone, and Ashford A brand-new series of Celebrity Antiques Road Show returns to BBC two. In the programme each antique expert is paired up with a celebrity and they travel across the UK […]
Writer: Evgenia Peretz, Jim Taylor and Tamara Jenkins Director: Jesse Peretz Starring: Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Jimmy O. Yang Production Company: Apatow Productions, Bona Fide Productions, Ingenious Media Kent Locations Used: Home Farm near Faversham, Ramsgate, and Broadstairs Juliet Naked, starring Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd, is a warm, smart and […]
Writer: Mike Leigh Director: Mike Leigh Starring: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley Production Company: BFI Film Fund Kent Locations Used: The Historic Dockyard Chatham and St Mary’s Marshes Oscar nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh (Mr Turner) portrays one of England’s bloodiest episodes, the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. Government guards charged and attacked a […]
Writer: Chris Lang Director: Colin Teague Starring: Miranda Raison, Anjli Mohindra, Tom Riley Production Company: ITV Studios Kent Locations Used: Shellness beach, Swale ITV crime drama Dark Heart will soon be hitting our screens, starring Tom Riley as DI Will Wagstaffe, who is haunted by his past after both his parents were murdered […]
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