Television shows and movies filmed in Hertfordshire over the last two years include Silo, Varsity, My Oxford Year, and Grantchester, a Freedom of Information request by The Local Democracy Reporting Service has revealed.
Scenes filmed at County Hall in Hertford across 2023 and 2024 will feature in seven productions across various platforms including Netflix, Apple TV and ITV.
Filming for the currently unreleased third season of Silo, a dystopian drama series, took place at County Hall across two weeks in October 2024, with the county council receiving £77,440 from SDTA Productions to use the location. The series features stars including Rebecca Ferguson, Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Tim Robbins and Dame Harriet Walter.
County Hall was also home to filming for Prime Target, an Apple TV series set in Cambridge that premiered in January this year and features The White Lotus’s Leo Woodall in the lead role. Filming took place in June 2023 and earned the county council £47,000.
Shortly after Prime Target was in town, new crime series The Undertow took over County Hall at a cost of £40,000 to film their show featuring Jamie Dornan as identical twins.
The show, which has not yet been released, will air on Netflix and is an adaptation of a Norwegian series called Twin.
Two series being broadcast on ITV will include shots filmed at County Hall, including Grantchester and Code of Silence. The filming, which took place in October and November 2024, earned the county council a combined £12,950.
While Grantchester is now in its tenth series, Code of Silence—featuring Strictly winner Rose Ayling-Ellis—will premiere on ITVX on 18 May.
Another 2025 release will be My Oxford Year, a romcom set to feature scenes filmed at County Hall in September 2024.
The film, starring Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest, will follow a young American student whose life is changed after she meets a charming British man.
Details of the movies and series allowed to film at County Hall was released after the Local Democracy Reporting Service challenged Hertfordshire County Council’s initial refusal to disclose the information on the grounds that it is commercially sensitive.
A spokesperson for Hertfordshire County Council said: “We welcome requests for filming and are pleased that County Hall is sought out as a venue due to the historic and aesthetically pleasing nature of its architecture and surroundings.
“We are always looking at how we can best utilise our assets to generate income to help deliver services to our residents and support the economic growth of the film industry in Hertfordshire.”
The council earned more than £224,000 across 2023 and 2024 from successful filming applications.
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