Age Before Beauty to film in Manchester
Mainstreet Pictures is planning a summer shoot in Manchester for the BBC’s new drama Age Before Beauty.
Written by Debbie Horsfield, the series explores family feuds at a failing beauty salon in Manchester.
Production Intelligence subscribers can log in now for details of the key crew involved, and pre-production and filming dates.
Manchester and the north of England are becoming more popular as filming locations for UK TV shoots.
The Space Project in Manchester has become a key regional production space with more than 55,000 sq ft of stages and last autumn the facility was awarded £14m to fund an expansion plan.
New series of Cold Feet and The A Word will be filming at The Space Project in the coming months.
The north-east is also growing its production profile. Church Fenton Studios has been adapted as a studio facility midway between Leeds and York, and is the home of ITV’s period drama Victoria.
Non-PI subscribers can click here to request a free demo. PI was launched in 2011 and now has listings for more than 8100 feature film, high-end TV drama, factual and entertainment projects at all stages of production.
Also on The Knowledge
Shetland wins double recommission
The BBC has ordered two more series of detective drama Shetland with the first (Series 9) filming this month.
Bank of Dave the Sequel begins northern shoot
Filming gets underway today (26 February) on the Netflix sequel to 2023 feature Bank of Dave with shooting taking place largely in Burnley and Leeds.
Filming underway on new series of Strike
Strike, The Ink Black Heart – the sixth instalment of the detective drama - has begun filming.
Feature film Lola and Freddie to shoot in London this summer
A new feature film, Lola and Freddie, will shoot in London locations this summer with Naomie Harris, Joel Fry, Jameela Jamil and Olivia Lee leading the cast.
Construction commences on BBC's West Midlands production hub as new series is greenlit
Ground has been broken on The Tea Factory, a new BBC production hub in the West Midlands that promises to be the BBC’s greenest building, with a new series featuring Billy Billingham to be produced in the region.
Ralph Fiennes to direct and star in The Beacon
Ralph Fiennes is set to make his screenwriting feature debut with The Beacon; he will also direct.