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How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) (2025)

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Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) in a red jacket standing in front of an ornate wooden door with metalwork, set in a historic stone building."

How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) © BBC / Baby Cow / Rob Baker Ashton

Writer: Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons, Steve Coogan
Starring: Steve Coogan, Anna Crilly, Rufus Jones
Production Company: Baby Cow Productions
Kent Locations Used: Castle Farm

How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) (2025) is a six-part BBC mockumentary series following Alan Partridge as he attempts to reintegrate into British life after working in Saudia Arabia for a year. The series explores mental health issues which affect the British public.

The series is written by Steve Coogan and his long-term collaborators Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons (Alan Partridge, Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life). It stars Steve Coogan (This Time with Alan Partridge (2021), The Wind in the Willows – Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride (1996)) as Alan Partridge with Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon, The Sixth Commandment) and Rufus Jones (W1A, Hunderby (2012)) in supporting roles.

Production visited Kent to film various scenes at the Castle Farm estate in Sevenoaks, including a tennis match (Ep. 1), a book club (Ep. 2), a scene involving a jet pack (Ep. 2), a vineyard (Ep. 3 and 6), a pig farm (Ep. 6) and a polo match (Ep. 6).

Set within 1,200 acres of land with varied landscapes, thee Castle Farm estate includes lavender fields, hop gardens, apple orchards, bluebell woodlands and meadows. It is particularly popular for photoshoots and music videos but has also played host to The Beekeeper (2024), De De Pyaar De (2019) and Road Games (2016).

How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) (2025) aired on BBC One from Friday 3rd October, with the episodes following weekly.

For more information about Kent’s Filming History please visit our Movie Map.

Hunderby – Series 1 (2012)

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Actors running towards the camera on botany bay beach, white cliffs behind

Hunderby © Sky Atlantic HD

Writer: Julia Davis, Barunka O’Shaughnessy
Starring: Alexandra Roach, Julia Davis, Alex Macqueen, Rufus Jones, Julian Barratt
Production Company: Baby Cow Productions
Kent Locations Used: Botany Bay

Set in the 19th Century, Hunderby (2012) is a dark comedy series following  shipwreck survivor Helene, who is washed ashore near a small English village where she meets and marries a widowed pastor. However, her new husband’s housekeeper is trying to drive a wedge between them, and it appears that Helene is hiding dark secrets.

Written by Barunka O’Shaughnessy (Motherland, Timewasters) and Julia Davis (Nighty Night, Love Actually) – who also plays Dorothy the housekeeper – the series stars Alexandra Roach (Anna Karenina, The Iron Lady) as Helene, Alex Macqueen (The Hide (2009), Peaky Blinders) as Edmund, Rufus Jones (W1A, Camping) as Dr. Foggerty and Julian Barratt (The Harry Hill Movie (2013), The Mighty Boosh) as the series Narrator.

Helene being rescued in the arms of a man from the shipwreck on a sandy beach

Helene being rescued from the shipwreck © Sky Atlantic HD

In early 2012, the cast and crew of Hunderby came to Botany Bay to make the most of the quiet stretches of sandy beach and picturesque white cliffs which served as the backdrop for the shipwreck scenes and where Edmund proposes marriage to Helene in the first episode.

Botany Bay is one of Kent’s most popular filming locations due to its sandy beach, rock pools, white cliffs and highly photographed white chalk stacks. Other productions to have filmed there include Thaandavam (2012), True Love (2012) and Series 2 of Humans (2016).

Series 1 of Hunderby (2012) premiered on Sky Atlantic on Monday 27th August 2012 and is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime.

For more information about Kent’s Filming History please visit our Movie Map.