Proof that Liverpool is the most filmed city in the UK after London is the ability to walk through the city on a random Tuesday evening and stumble across a film crew for the new Beatles biopics and see Barry Keoghan as Ringo Star. A set of four individual films, focusing on each of the … Continue reading The Beatles filming – Here, There and Everywhere in Liverpool
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The best British TV sci-fi series of all time celebrates its 60th anniversary on the 23rd November 2023. Doctor Who holds the Guinness World Record for being longest running science-fiction television series in the world. It’s got to be doing something right to still be going strong after all this time (no pun intended). So … Continue reading Doctor Who @60 and an unusual Liverpool link
The end of October sees the start of a second season on the BBC TV drama ‘Time’. Created by Jimmy McGovern the acclaimed first season was set in a men’s prison and starred Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. This second season is set in a women’s prison and stars former Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker and … Continue reading Doing Time in St Helens
I did manage to travel beyond the Mersey region this year to bag a few television locations, but I really didn’t need to leave my home town really – film crews descended on St Helens with surprising frequency in 2021. Three new shows used places familiar to me, some barely a 10 minute walk form … Continue reading On my doorstep – St Helens
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