Your comprehensive guide detailing TV and Film productions that have been filmed in Kent
Director: Joss Whedon Writer: Joss Whedon (Screenplay), Stan Lee, Jack Kirby (Comic Book) Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, James Spader, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Cobie Smulders Production company: Marvel Studios Kent locations: Dover Castle Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) is the next thrilling installment set […]
Starring: Martin Clunes, Charles Edwards, Arsher Ali, Art Malik, Hattie Morahan, Emma Fielding, Production company: Buffalo Pictures Kent Locations Used: The Historic Dockyard Chatham Martin Clunes (Doc Martin, Men Behaving Badly) stars as the celebrated novelist and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in ITV’s three part adaptation of Julian Barnes’ acclaimed novel, Arthur & George. […]
Writer: Peter Straughan, Hilary Mantel (novel) Director: Peter Kosminsky Starring: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Mark Gatiss, Jonathan Pryce Production company: Company Pictures Kent locations: Penshurst Place, Dover Castle This January, BBC Two airs new British drama Wolf Hall, charting the meteoric rise of Thomas Cromwell in the Tudor Court, from his lowly start […]
Director: Rob Marshall Writer: James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim Starring: Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, James Corden, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Christine Baranski, Billy Magnussen, Mackenzie Mauzy, Tracey Ullman, Daniel Huttlestone Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Lucamar Productions Kent locations: Dover Castle Into the Woods is a film adaption of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s […]
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence Writer: Steve Pemberton Starring: Miranda Richardson, Anna Chancellor, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Frances Barber, Felicity Montagu, Gemma Whelan Production Company: BBC Kent Locations: Kent & East Sussex Railway – Tenterden Station This Christmas, the BBC offers a new three part adaptation of E.F. Benson’s Mapp & Lucia novels set in 1930 in the […]
Director: Kevin Macdonald Writer: Dennis Kelly Starring: Jude Law, Jodie Whittaker, Michael Smiley, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn Production company: Film4 Productions, Cowboy Films, Etalon Film Kent locations: Black Widow Submarine, River Medway Black Sea is an adventure thriller about a rogue submarine captain who brings together a misfit crew to seek out a sunken treasure […]
Writers: Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong Starring: James Nesbitt, Brit Marling, Paterson Joseph, Adam Deacon, Jill Halfpenny Production company: Nightjack Ltd Kent Filming Locations: Metropolitan Police Training Ground, Gravesend British comedy drama Babylon is about the people, politics and pressures in London’s police force and returns to Channel 4 for a six part series after a […]
Director/Writer: Mike Leigh Starring: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville Production companies: Film4, Focus Features International, Lipsync ProductionsT, hin Man Films, Xofa Productions Kent locations: The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Stangate Creek Mr Turner was written and directed by the acclaimed Mike Leigh and chronicles the last twenty-five […]
Writers: James Runcie (novel), Daisy Coulam (TV adaption) Starring: James Norton, Robson Green, Morven Christie, Tessa Peake-Jones, Al Weaver. Production company: Lovely Day, Masterpiece Kent Locations Used: The Historic Dockyard Chatham ITV drama Grantchester is set in 1953 in a quiet village just outside Cambridge, where the vicar, Sidney Chambers (James Norton), finds himself investigating […]
Writer: Tom Bradby Starring: Andrew Buchan, Rose Leslie, Charles Dance, Jack Huston, Daniel Mays Production company: Ecosse Films Kent Locations: Penshurst Place and Cobham Hall The Great Fire is a new four part ITV drama inspired by the historical events of 1666, where the capital was devastated by fire. Set against the decadent backdrop of […]
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