{"id":290297,"date":"2025-07-25T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290297\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:06:18","slug":"itv-axes-huge-birmingham-tv-show-despite-rave-reviews-and-millions-of-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290297\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV axes huge Birmingham TV show despite rave reviews and millions of viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

ITV has scrapped plans for a second series of show Joan, starring Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner, who hails from Warwickshire.\"ITVITV has scrapped plans for a second series of show Joan, starring Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner, who hails from Warwickshire.<\/p>\n

ITV has axed a huge Birmingham TV show despite rave reviews and millions of viewers. ITV<\/a> has scrapped plans for a second series of show Joan, starring Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner, who hails from Warwickshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show, filmed in Birmingham<\/a> in the Jewellery Quarter, saw Turner stay in the West Midlands – her home region – while in production. Turner was seen out in Digbeth<\/a>, where she partied with fans as the show was filmed.<\/p>\n

A spokesman told the Sun newspaper: \u201cITV and Snowed-In Productions would love to produce another series of Joan. However, as a consequence of cast availability, and following co-production discussions, a second series isn\u2019t possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The programme is set in 1980s London but filming last summer took in some locations across the West Midlands region. These include Birmingham’s Piccadilly Arcade and Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham as well as Walsall<\/a>, Coventry and Leamington Spa.<\/p>\n

Kavita Masih told BBC<\/a> Radio WM the series was filmed \u201cliterally around the corner\u201d from where she works on Bridge Street in Walsall. She remembered seeing some filming activity around the area, which she described as \u201cquite a lot of rush\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of older models of cars around the local area and different forms of outfits, not from this day and age,” she said. “It was brilliant.”<\/p>\n

Claire Ginnever, who also works on Bridge Street, said: \u201cIt\u2019s definitely putting Walsall on the map.” Geoff Lam, who works at Faculty Coffee at the Piccadilly Arcade in Birmingham, said the crews filmed there for two days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always been filming and we\u2019re quite aware of it,” he said. “It does drive a lot of traffic into Birmingham.” The show show is based on the true story of Joan Hannington \u2013 a struggling mother who became a notorious jewellery thief.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might make it a bit more attractive for other filmmakers to come in,\u201d Mr Lam added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV has scrapped plans for a second series of show Joan, starring Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,208,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-290297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-itv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114913318508476423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}