Filmed in Kent

Your comprehensive guide detailing TV and Film productions that have been filmed in Kent

The Harry Hill Movie (2013)

Director: Steve Bendelack Writers: Jon Foster, James Lamont, Harry Hill Starring: Harry Hill, Matthew Hall, Julie Walters, Simon Bird, Matt Lucas, Jim Broadbent, Sheridan Smith, Julian Barratt Production Company: Lucky Features, Jonescompany Productions Kent Locations Used: Littlestone-on-Sea Under the mistaken impression that his pet hamster, Abu, is ill, Harry Hill and his Nan (Julie Walters) […]


Legacy (2013)

Legacy © Slim Productions and BBC

  Director: Pete Travis Writers: Alan Judd (Novel), Paula Milne (Screenplay) Starring: Andrew Scott, Romola Garai, Charlie Cox, Geraldine James, Olivia Grant Production company: Slim Film + Television Kent Locations: Deal Legacy is a BBC TV film based on Alan Judd’s novel of the same name which is set in 1970’s London during the height […]


Dom Hemingway (2013)

Dom Hemingway (Jude Law) © Nick Wall and Lionsgate UK

  Director and writer: Richard Shepard Starring: Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke, Jumayn Hunter, Mădălina Diana Ghenea, Kerry Condon Production company: BBC Films, Isle of Man Film, Pinewood Pictures, Recorded Picture Company Kent locations used:  The Historic Dockyard Chatham Released from prison after a 12-year stretch, larger-than-life safecracker Dom Hemingway  is […]


Toast of London – Series 1 (2013)

Matt Berry as Steven Toast standing in front of a black smoky background. He is wearing a black shirt and has a skull on his shoulder. He is holding a white feather quill in one hand and a scroll wrapped in a red bow in the other.

Creator: Matt Berry, Arthur Matthews Starring: Matt Berry, Robert Bathurst, Doon Mackichan, Shazad Latif, Tim Downie, Harry Peacock, Tracy-Ann Oberman Production Company: Objective Productions Kent Locations Used: The Historic Dockyard Chatham Toast of London (2013-2020) was a British sitcom about Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor and his problems on and off stage. The series […]


Last Passenger (2013)

Director: Omid Nooshin Writers: Andy Love, Omid Nooshin Starring: Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon, Iddo Goldberg, Lindsay Duncan, David Schofield Production Companies: NDF International Future Films, UK Film Council, Pinewood Studios, 2B Pictures Kent Location: Kent & East Sussex Railway, Rolvenden Station   Writer-director, Omid Nooshin’s debut feature film “Last Passenger” is about a group of […]


The Tunnel (2013)

The Tunnel Clemence Poesy (Elise Wassermann) and Stephen Dillane (Karl Roebuck)

    Starring: Stephan Dillane, Clemence Poesy, Keeley Hawes, Liz Smith, David G. Robinson, Angel Coulby, Tobi Bakere, Mathieu Carriere Production Company: Kudos Film and Television, Shine France Kent Locations: Channel Tunnel, Folkestone Harbour, Discovery Park, Connaught Barracks, Folkestone, Dover, Margate, The Port of Dover, The Turner Contemporary and many more.       Inspired by hit Scandinavian drama The Bridge, The […]


Everyone’s Going To Die (2013)

Everyone's Going to Die Movie - an animated man and woman

  Director: Jones Starring: Nora Tschirner, Rob Knighton Production Companies: Bobo Kaminski, Everyone’s Going To Die, Jones Film Kent Location Used: Various streets in Folkestone, Rotunda and Sunny Sands beaches, St. Mary’s and St. Eanswythe Church, St. Peter’s Primary School, Georges House Gallery in the Old High Street, The Quarterhouse, The Leas, Folkestone Harbour, Dymchurch Amusements, […]


Downton Abbey (2010 & 2013)

Joanne Froggatt as Anna Bates, Baby George and Di Botcher as Nanny West

Creator: Julian Fellowes Starring: Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Brendan Coyle, Elizabeth McGovern Production Company: ITV Studios, Carnival Films, Masterpiece, NBC Universal, WGBH Boston Kent Locations Used: Kent & East Sussex Railway, The Historic Dockyard Chatham Downton Abbey (2010-2015) was an ITV period drama charting the lives of the Crawley family and their servants in […]


Rush (2013)

Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl in Rush (2013). Both men are wearing red racing jumpsuits, and Brühl holds a red helmet in his arms. Behind them is a row of red racing cars.

Director: Ron Howard Writer: Peter Morgan Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Natalie Dormer, Alexandra Maria Lara Production Company: Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Media, Working Title Films, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Films Kent Locations Used: Brands Hatch Rush (2013) is an action-drama biopic about the 1970’s Formula 1 rivalry between charismatic Englishman James Hunt and […]


Big Bad World (2013)

Writer / Creator: Joe Tucker, Lloyd Woolf Starring: Blake Harrison, David Fynn, Seann Walsh, Rebecca Humphries, Scarlett Alice Johnson Production Companies: Comedy Central Films, Objective Productions Kent Locations Used: Herne Bay, The Diver’s Arms, Port of Ramsgate Big Bad World (2013) is a Comedy Central series about university graduate Ben, played by Blake Harrison (Kate […]