Filming has officially begun for Steven Knight’s new TV show This Town in Birmingham, it has been announced. Locations include the city centre area, as well as Knight’s new Digbeth Loc. Film and TV Studios.
The drama, set in 1981, tells a tale of social unrest with young people fighting to choose their own paths, with each person in need of the second chance that music provides. Like with Knight’s Peaky Blinders, This Town will also be broadcast on the BBC.
The Peaky Blinders creator will be ensuring sound is just as important as speech with Mercury Studios co-producing the show. Part of Universal Media Group, the studio will bring in musical artists to help create the scene for the story.
Described as ‘a love letter to Birmingham’, the show is both a high octane thriller and a family saga. This Town writer, creator and executive producer, Steven Knight said: “This is a project very close to my heart. It’s about an era I lived through and know well and it involves characters who I feel I grew up with.
“It’s a love letter to Birmingham and Coventry but I hope people from all over the world will relate to it.”
Having opened this year, Loc. Film and TV Studios will be hoping to become one of the biggest film studios across the country. With confirmation that Masterchef will be making itself at home there in 2024, the news of This Town comes as another welcome boost to the studio.
Source: www.birminghammail.co.uk
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