Your comprehensive guide detailing TV and Film productions that have been filmed in Kent
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 […]
Production Company: Pett Productions Kent Locations: Maidstone Studios This popular sketch show, produced by Pett Productions, is back for its third series. The show has an almost entirely female cast led by Lucy Montgomery and Debbie Chazen and is partially written by Bob Mortimer. Some of the more well known characters include Italian Maid, a shy […]
Director: Chris Weitz Writer: Philip Pullman (novel), Chris Weitz (screenplay) Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ian McKellen Production Company: New Line Cinema, Ingenious Film Partners, Scholastic Productions, Depth of Field Kent Locations: The Historic Dockyard Chatham Adapted from the novel Northern Lights, first in Philip Pullmann’s best-selling His Dark Materials trilogy, The […]
Writer/Director: Penny Woolcock Starring: Bernard Hill, Ger Ryan, Daniel Percival, Clare-Hope Ashitey Production Company: Artangel Media, Arts Council of England, Channel 4 Television Corporation Kent Filming Locations: Margate and surrounding areas. Produced and commissioned by Artangel in collaboration with Channel 4 and the Arts Council UK, EXODUS is a retelling of the Old Testament story of Moses’ search […]
Starring: Sharon Small, Nathaniel Parker, Mary Stockley, Ben Lannoy, Liza Tarbuck, Nicholas Gleaves, Adrian Rawlins. Production Company: BBC, WGBH Kent Location: Dungeness The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a BBC One drama series about Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Haves who work together to solve unusual murder cases. In ‘Natural Causes’, […]
Writer: Bob Mills, Jeff Pope Director: Adrian Shergold Cast: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, James Cordon Production Company: UK Film Council, National Lottery through UK Film Council, Granada Television, Capitol Films, Masterpiece Theatre Kent Filming Locations: The Historic Dockyard Chatham Pierrepoint is a feature film inspired by true events and is the story of Britain’s most famous hangman, […]
Writer/Director: Mike Laloe Production Company: Toaster Productions Kent Filming locations: Tunbridge Wells We’ve Got The Toaster was made on a tiny budget and took over 3 years from beginning to premiere. The cast and crew was made up of over 100 people, the vast majority of whom were under 18 when they started working on the […]
Director: Alfonso Cuaron Writer: Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby Starring: Clive Owen, Michael Caine, Julianne Moore, Pam Ferris, Clare- Hope Ashitey Production Company: Universal Pictures, Strike Entertainment,Hit & Run Productions, Ingenious Film Partners 2, Toho-Towa Kent Filming Locations: The Historic Dockyard Chatham Adapted from P.D James’ novel of the same title, […]
Writer/Director: Jan Dunn Producer: Elaine Wickham Production Company: Medb Films, British Broadcasting Corporation, Distant Eye Films, Molinare Studio, Spotty Dog Films, VMI Starring: Pauline McLynn, Chloe Sirene, Paul McGann, Rula Lenska Kent Filming Locations: East Kent College, Kingsgate Bay, Margate, Pegwell Bay, Port of Ramsgate, Ramsgate, Royal Harbour Hotel and the Wig & Pen pub Gypo is […]
Director: Tom Shankland Writer: Kevin Elyot Starring: Geraldine McEwan, James D’Arcy, Emilia Fox, Jessica Hynes, Kelly Brook, Sean Pertwee, Ken Russell , Harry Enfield . Production Company: Granada, WGBH Boston, Agatha Christie Kent Filming Locations: Chilham village, Chilham Castle, St Mary’s Church Miss Marple is the popular ITV series adapted from Agatha Christie’s murder mystery novels. […]
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