Your comprehensive guide detailing TV and Film productions that have been filmed in Kent
Director: Justin Chadwick Writer: Peter Morgan Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Eric Bana, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morrissey, Benedict Cumberbatch Production Company: Columbia Pictures, Focus Features, BBC Films, Relativity Media, Ruby Films, Scott Rudin Productions Kent Filming Locations: Knole House, Dover Castle, Penshurst Place The screen adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s best selling novel The Other Boleyn Girl is a dramatic […]
Director/Writer: Jake Paltrow Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman, Penélope Cruz, Danny DeVito, Simon Pegg Production Company: Good Night Productions, Inferno Distribution, Destination Films, Grosvenor Park Media, MHF Zweite Academy Film, Tempesta Films Kent Filming Locations: Capel Manor House, Horsmonden This romantic comedy, is the first movie written and directed by Jake Paltrow (Young Ones Boardwalk Empire) ,and is […]
Director: John Alexander Starring: Billie Piper, JJ Field, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Matt Smith, Hayley Atwell Production Company: BBC, NOVA/WGBH Boston Kent Locations: The Historic Dockyard Chatham The Shadow in the North is the second of the Sally Lockheart Mysteries and follows Sally, who, with the help of her detective friends, investigates her client’s losses of vast sums […]
Directed By: Coky Giedroyc Produced By: Kate Harwood, Sarah Brown & Coky Giedroyc Written By: Charles Dickens (Novel) & Sarah Phelps (Adaptation) Starring: Timothy Spall, William Miller, Adam Arnold, Tom Hardy, Sophie Okenedo, Rob Brydon Production Company: BBC, WGBH Kent Filming Locations: The Historic Dockyard Chatham In the latest adaptation of Dickens’ Classic tale, the […]
Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones, Hermione Norris, Miranda Raison. Production Company: BBC Kent Locations Used: Medway Services, Cliffe Spooks is a long running BBC One TV drama series following the work of the British MI5 agency. This fast-paced thriller sees the team trying to stop a rogue member of the Iranian intelligence who plans to unleash […]
Director and writer: Brendan Foley Starring: Vinnie Jones, Julie Cox, Jason Flemyng, Derek Jacobi, P.H. Moriarty, Vanessa Redgrave Production Company: Grosvenor Park Productions, Manuscript Productions, Riddle Productions Kent Filming Locations: Sittingbourne Greyhounds Racing Track Journalist Mike Sullivan (Vinnie Jones) investigates a series of murders that occur after the discovery of an unpublished Charles Dickens’ manuscript. As Sullivan grows obsessive over […]
Director: Michael Apted Writer: Steven Knight Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai and Rufus Sewell. Production Company: Walden Media, Ingenious Film Partners, Bristol Bay Productions,Ingenious Film Partners Kent Filming Locations: Historic Dockyard Chatham Amazing Grace follows the journey of idealist William Wilberforce as he manoeuvres his way through Parliament, endeavouring to […]
Writer: Hanif Kureishi Director: Roger Michell Starring: Peter O’Toole, Leslie Phillips, Beatrice Savoretti, Jodie Whittaker Production Company: Miramax, FilmFour, UK Film Council, Free Range Films Kent Filming Locations: Whitstable and The Old Neptune Pub From the director of Notting Hill (Roger Mitchell), Venus marks the return of Peter O’Toole and Leslie Phillips (Maurice and Ian respectively) to […]
Director: Duane Clark, Andrew Gunn Writer: Robert Murphy Starring: David Morrissey, Lucy Cohu, Ralph Brown, Tom Hardy Production Company: Ecosse Films Kent Filming Locations: Leybourne Lakes, Mote Park Leisure Centre, Whatman warehouse Maidstone, Kings Hill, Imperial College-Wye Campus Cape Wrath is a 7-part thriller which is known in the US as Meadowlands. This sinister series followed the lives of the […]
Production Company: Festival Film & Television, Festival Films, ITV Kent Locations: Boughton Monchelsea Place, Herne Bay, Teston, Teston Bridge Country Park Part of ITV’s autumn drama schedule Half Broken Things, starring Penelope Wilton (Calendar Girls, Doctor Who, Ever Increasing Circles), is a psychological thriller set against the idyllic backdrop of the Kent Weald. The drama is an adaptation […]