Secret Invasion, Full Monty 2 and more to be filmed in Halifax
We’ve said a fond farewell to Happy Valley but there are plenty more TV shows that were filmed in Halifax and the rest of Calderdale that we will be able to watch soon.
The borough is fast-becoming quite the hotspot for filming as its gorgeous countryside, beautiful architecture and vast mix of landscapes become more widely known.
Calderdale Council has even launched a dedicated ‘Film Calderdale’ website where location managers can searchadatabaseforsuitable places to make their productions.
And it is planning a movie map of the borough in the hope of attracting even more film crews.
At one point last year, there were crews from three different TV shows all filming in Halifax at the same time. Secret Invasion
One of the most highlyanticipated releases among Marvel fans, Secret Invasion is due to be shown on Disney Plus this year.
No date has been officially released yet but the six-part series is widely reported as due to start this spring.
It will star all the actors who came to Halifax for the filming at the beginning of last year, including Hollywood royalty Samuel L
Jackson, Emilia Clarke, Ben
Mendelsohn,
Kingsley
Ben-Adir and Cobie
Smulders.
The Piece Hall was shut for a week while crews filmed there, and there were also cameras spotted at Dean Clough and on one of the back streets near Bull Green.
Boat Story Film crews were spotted in Halifax town centre last month for an upcoming BBC drama written by the minds behind The Tourist, Baptiste and The Missing. The show stars Daisy Haggard, of Back to Life and Breeders, as well as Paterson Joseph, who recently starred in Vigil, Peep Show and Noughts & Crosses.
Also in the series will be Joanna Scanlan (After Love, Notes on A Scandal), Craig Fairbrass (One Piece, Villain and Muscle) and Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia, House of Dragons).
Paterson was even spotted buying a pie from Grosvenors Butchers while the crew were filming in Halifax Borough Market.
They also filmed at La Luna in Westgate Aracade, at The Old Cock pub and Skircoat Green.
The Gallows Pole
The Gallows Pole, based on the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers, fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise and fall of David Hartley
and the Cragg Vale Coiner.
Starring in the highly-anticipated series will be Michael Socha (This Is England, Papillon), Thomas Turgoose (This Is England, Looted), George MacKay (1917, Captain Fantastic), Tom Burke (Mank, The Souvenir), Sophie McShera (Cinderella, Downton Abbey), Cara Theobold (Downton Abbey, Crazyhead), Yusra Warsama (Castle Rock), Eve Burley (Secret State), Nicole Barber Lane (Hollyoaks), Samuel Edward-Cook (Peaky Blinders). Anthony Welsh (Master Of None), Joe Sproulle (The A Word), Adam Fogerty (Legend), Fine Time Fontayne (How We Used To Live) and and an ensemble of first-time actors.
The drama will be This is England creator Shane Meadows’ first period television drama.
A release date for the sixpart series has not yet been shared but it will be shown on the BBC.
Full Monty 2
An eight-part series is being made for Disney Plus as a sequel to the hit film The Full Monty.
The series will star most of the original stars from the film and look at how their lives have changed since their ballsy dance routine all those years ago.
A crew making the series and actors including Hollywood star Robert Carlyle were in Halifax in August filming for the series.
Police officers and tape were seen on Alexandra Street, between Wards End and Commercial Street, for the production, as well as Sheffield Job Centre signs.