The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012)

Directed By: Diarmuid Lawrence Written By: Charles Dickens (Novel) & Gwyneth Hughes (Adaptation) Starring: Matthew Rhys, Tamzin Merchant & Freddie Fox Production Companies: BBC, Masterpiece Kent Locations Used:  Eastgate House, Rochester Cathedral, Riverside Country Park A new two part drama from the BBC aims to solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Dickens’ final and incomplete novel […]


The Hide (2009)

Director: Marek Losey   Writer: Tim Whitnall Starring: Alex Macqueen and Phil Campbell Production Company: Poisson Rouge Pictures, Solution Films Limited Kent Filming Locations: Elmley Marshes, Swale and Harty Ferry Inn  Based on the play by Tim Whitnall and starring Alex MacQueen and Philip Campbell, The Hide tells the story of a reclusive bird watcher who […]


Invisible Eyes (2009)

Writer/Director – Olivier Cohen Producer – Liz Rosilio Production Company: HiDe Films Kent Filming Location: Old Romney ‘Invisible Eyes’ follows successful model Gaby (Pia Mechler) as she tries to begin a new life away from  the glamour and glory of the catwalk. Reluctant to accept her career is on a downward spiral, Gaby retreats to a […]


Jetsam (2008)

Director/Writer: Simon Welsford Production Company: Skyman Films Kent Locations: Margate Washed up on a deserted beach with no recollection of how she got there and who she is, Grace’s (Alex Reid – Life on Mars, The Descent) world changes dramatically as she collides with a man (Jamie Drevan, – Billy Elliot, Ultimate Force) who is intent on killing […]


Spooks (2007) Series 6

  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 […]


Cape Wrath (2007)

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 […]


Half Broken Things (2007)

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 […]


Bleak House (2005)

Written By: Charles Dickens (Novel) & Andrew Davies (Adaptation) Starring: Gillian Anderson, Ana Maxwell Martin, Carey Mulligan, Charles Dance, Patrick Kennedy & Denis Lawson Production Company: BBC, WGBH, Deep Indigo Productions, Smallweed Productions Kent Locations Used: Cobham Hall This BBC A dramatic thriller set in Victorian England. It tells the story of the beautiful but icy […]


The Gathering (2003)

Written by: Anthony Horowitz Directed by: Brian Gilbert Starring: Christina Ricci, Harry Forrester, Stephen Dillane, Peter McNamara, Robert Hardy, Ioan Gruffudd, Simon Russell Beale Production Company: Granada Film Productions, Isle of Man Film Commission, Samuelson Productions, Isle of Man Film Kent Locations: Penshurst Place The Gathering is a supernatural thriller about Cassie, a young woman who […]