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General Category => Entertainment => Topic started by: Old Cruser on March 31, 2013, 08:26:46 PM
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I have been waiting for this to start and reading about it have found out it's filmed in parts of Derbyshire
We could do with it coming into Chesterfield to give it a free plug for tourists ;)
http://www.midlandsbusinessnews.co.uk/2012/11/peak-district-to-star-in-major-bbc-one-drama/ (http://www.midlandsbusinessnews.co.uk/2012/11/peak-district-to-star-in-major-bbc-one-drama/)
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Probably better publicity than prisoners' wives
Worth trying to think what other fiction was filmed in the county:
Peak Practice
Sweet Medicine (Wirksworth)
Dead man weds (Castleton / Hope)
Dead Man's Shoes (film - Matlock)
John Shuttleworth (Dronfield)
Summer (Bolsover)
League Of Gentlemen (Hadfield)
Pride and Prejudice (Chatsworth)
..are a few that spring to mind
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That must be the least impressive list I have ever read. :(
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Dead Man's Shoes was a great film
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Did it get an Oscar? :)
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The dramatisation of Deric Longden's book 'Lost for Words' starring Pete Postlethwaite and Thora Hird was set in Chesterfield. Problem was the producers couldn't be bothered to actually come here so they filmed it in Leeds and borrowed a 'Welcome to Chesterfield' roadsign (complete with Spire!!) to stick on the side of a road in Leeds for 'location' shots!!
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Did it get an Oscar? :)
Are The Carnival as commercially successful as One Direction?
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I enjoyed it anyway - tough times!
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Just one place - Haddon Hall:
1924 Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall – film featuring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
1985 Lady Jane Grey – film featuring Helena Bonham Carter
1986 The Princess Bride – now a cult classic film featuring Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin
1986 Sherlock Holmes – episode in the ITV series starring Jeremy Brett
1988-90 The Silver Chair – part of the BBC's Chronicles of Narnia series
1989 The Lady and the Highwayman - film featuring Oliver Reed and Hugh Grant
1994 Dragon World –film featuring Alistair Mackenzie and Brittney Powell
1994 Jane Eyre – film directed by Franco Zefferelli, featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt
1996 The Prince and the Pauper – BBC drama featuring Keith Michell
1996 Moll Flanders – ITV drama featuring Alex Kingston and Daniel Craig
1998 Elizabeth – film featuring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Joseph Fiennes
2001 Six Wives of Henry VIII – Channel 4 documentary
2002 Sir Thomas More – BBC documentary
2002 Mary Queen of Scots (The Queen's Lover) - BBC drama
2002 Martin Luther – BBC drama
2003 Sir Isaac Newton – BBC documentary
2003 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries – episode of BBC series featuring Nathaniel Parker
2004 Pride and Prejudice – film featuring Keira Knightley
2004 Bloody Mary – TV programme for schools
2005 Elizabeth 1 – Channel 4 documentary
2006 Jane Eyre – BBC drama featuring Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens
2006 The Wide Sargasso Sea – BBC drama featuring footage of Haddon Hall ablaze
2006 The Tudor Feast – BBC programme featuring Ruth Goodman
2006 The Other Boleyn Girl – film featuring Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman
2009 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – BBC documentary featuring Simon Armitage
2010 Jane Eyre – film featuring Dame Judi Dench, Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, directed by Cary Fukunaga
2010 The Making of the King James Bible – BBC documentary
2011 Anonymous – film featuring Haddon Hall using CGI techniques
And a wide variety of other film and TV appearances including
For the BBC -House of Cards, Travels with Pevsner with Joan Bakewell, Interceptor, Top Gear, The Holiday Programme, Flog It, Bargain Hunt, Gardeners' World and Songs of Praise.
For Sky - Miss Great Britain, with Michaela Strachan and Extreme Makeover
For ITV – Treasure Hunt, weather forecasts, Watercolour Challenge with Hannah Gordon, Wizzywig and Peak Practice.
Then there's these:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/features/tours/location/others_01.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/features/tours/location/others_01.shtml)
http://www.movie-locations.com/places/uk/derby.html#.UVnjFTfJKeQ (http://www.movie-locations.com/places/uk/derby.html#.UVnjFTfJKeQ)
OK - I cheated and Googled but Derbyshire has to be one of the most filmed counties in the country.
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You missed Antiques Roadshow!!!!!!
and Dickenson's Real Deal !!!
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Game For A Laugh - Queen's Park
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How come we never see them?
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Blimey Dave what a list didn't realise there had been so many! Never heard of some of those but impressive, not surprising though as we have lovely scenery here in Derbyshire
I did know Peak Practise was filmed in Matlock Starkholmes area. Hubby had some of the cast come into his shop for the water prooof clothing and then of course the more recent Chatworth House which some of us watched.
I knew of Antiques Roadshow and Dickensens real deal JR but didn't know of Game for a Laugh Slacker.
@ Pete we don't see them becuase we probably don't bother to check were filming was done.
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Game for a Laugh had Henry Kelly filming a guy who claimed to have built a submarine. Firstly in the lake in Queen's Park then in the swimming pool. I think they also filmed something else in New Square but what escapes me.
Which reminds me of course that Keith Lemon filmed here last year as did Heston Blumineck!!
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Game for a Laugh had Henry Kelly filming a guy who claimed to have built a submarine. Firstly in the lake in Queen's Park then in the swimming pool.
Didn't he ask you something about it being Yorkshire's Cricket Ground?
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No it was 'is that a Lancashire League ground' !!!
But he was Irish !!!
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Anyone still watching this? I finally gave up on it half way through last night's installment.
I can honestly say I've never watched such a miserably, unremittingly depressing tv program before in all my life - and I've see a few bad 'uns in my time.
It stumbles from one relentlessly tragic scene to another. Nothing good happens in it, only a succession of awful scenarios, one after the other.
What a waste of superb talent from Maxine Peake and John Simm - waste of time and money.
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I was thoroughly depressed after the first episode and gave up at that point.
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Just got rid of it myself had recorded it intending to warch it on our return
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I was gobsmacked when yesterday they announced it was so successful they were going to make a second series :o
Must be cheap to make... ;)