{"id":921405,"date":"2026-04-27T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/921405\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:02:24","slug":"has-bristol-become-a-slice-of-hollywood-as-major-tv-and-film-productions-flock-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/921405\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Bristol become a slice of Hollywood as major TV and film productions flock to the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Film and TV production contributed an estimated \u00a346.6 million to the city\u2019s economy last year\"bristolpost\"<\/p>\n

08:00, 27 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

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‘Young Sherlock’ series on Prime TV filming in Broad Street, Bristol, directed by Guy Ritchie(Image: Dominic Parker)<\/p>\n

Bristol is in the middle of a film and television boom, with productions ranging from Down Cemetery Road to Disney + smash hit Rivals being filmed in our city over the past couple of years <\/a>. Film and TV production also contributed an estimated \u00a346.6 million to the city\u2019s economy in the 2024\/25 financial year.<\/p>\n

Adela Straughan, manager of the council-run Bristol Film Office, said the amount of variety Bristol offered as a filming location was key to its success.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Young Sherlock, it was late 19th century London, and then Down Cemetery Road was contemporary Oxford,\u201d she said. \u201cSo that’s what we’re good at, we\u2019ve got really good, versatile locations but then we’ve also got something like the recent drama that’s come out Gone, that is very firmly based in Bristol.<\/p>\n

“So it was really good to have Bristol on our screens as Bristol, which of course, happened for The Outlaws as well back in the day. When that happens, that feels extra special.”<\/p>\n

Bristol is a UNESCO city of film, one of only thirty around the world, and Bristol Film Office has been shortlisted for the Film Commission of the Year Award (City\/Region) at this year\u2019s prestigious Global Production Awards. Winners will be announced on 18th May at the official ceremony at Cannes Film Festival, France.<\/p>\n

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Adela Straughan, Bristol Film Office manager(Image: Bristol Film Office)<\/p>\n

Ms Straughan said the city had earned its reputation as a favourite for production crews.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re a film friendly city,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen a location manager comes in to work on location in Bristol, they know that we are there to help and we will work with venues and places around the city, and other council departments, to make their lives as easy as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think another thing that’s good for Bristol is that we’re next to Bath<\/a> and we’re next to North Somerset<\/a> \u2026 there are loads of places with really good film offices that we will regularly catch up with and, of course, the Bottle Yard studios here.<\/p>\n

\u201cProductions are keen to film in as small a geographic area as possible, to save time and costs \u2013 time is money from their eyes. So\u2026 if they go into a location they’re looking for that kind of ease of being based around a city (with a lot to offer nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Straughan also said local talent deserved a lot of credit. \u201cI think the other thing that we’ve got is a really good crew base,\u201d she said. \u201cYou know, they’re strong and experienced.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you get to know a city, it’s in your interest to try and stay and work in that city, because obviously that’s where your knowledge lies. So I think that’s something that we can be really proud of as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Filming in Bristol could be set to get even better. The West of England has been awarded \u00a325 million through the government\u2019s creative places growth fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of that, there is a development of a regional production fund that will incentivise productions to be based in the West of England,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Eve Myles, left, and David Morrissey, right, starred in a new six-part ITV series called Gone. The series was filmed and is set in Bristol.(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really exciting, because other places like the north west and other regions around the UK have had these sorts of incentives previously. So this (new funding) means that if a production just needs that extra amount just to kind of get it over the line, if you like, we’re really hoping that this fund will will come together, hopefully fairly soon, and that will be a real appeal for those productions that are looking at where to be based.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the positive situation filming in Bristol finds itself in, the omnipresent threat of AI looms above production. Ms Straughan said it was something she kept an eye on, with the possibility of economic and creative damage to the city if production was taken off the streets and purely into studios.<\/p>\n

“I think film offices in general are looking at the development of AI (as a threat),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

“Scanning of a location is something that can be relatively easily done now, and there’s lots of discussion about then that scan being used in production or post production of a TV series. So that means that they would be more based in a studio, which is great for studios, but they won’t necessarily be out on location.<\/p>\n

“And that economic impact\u2026 would include things like catering, accommodation, hire of vehicles, that sort of thing. So if production moves from physically being in a space filming, and switches more into being on a wall or on a screen then that could have an impact on how film offices function.”<\/p>\n

Despite the potential problems posed by artificial intelligence to Bristol’s booming film industry, Ms Straughan said nothing could compete with the real thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I have spoken to productions it feels like, at the moment, that AI would never take over,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

“There is such an advantage of actually filming on location, so I think that that’s something that will always happen. But AI is something that’s in our mind at the moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Film and TV production contributed an estimated \u00a346.6 million to the city\u2019s economy last year 08:00, 27 Apr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,6639,1700,393,3063,4884,956,11653,2388,382,16,15],"class_list":["post-921405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-economy","tag-england","tag-film","tag-great-britain","tag-north-somerset","tag-premium","tag-sherlock","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116475629697613265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921405","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=921405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}