All eyes will be on Bolton in the new year as the town plays a starring role in some of the biggest TV dramas set to air in 2024.
Some of the industry's biggest stars have been in Bolton over the past 12 months and say the council this year has seen more new and returning dramas to be filmed in Bolton.
A Gentleman in Moscow, Passenger, Fool Me Once, The Power of Parker, Sleepover, Cobra and Coronation Street to name but a few have been filmed in the town starring Hollywood A-listers.
These all come on the back of the likes of Peaky Blinders, It's a Sin, Nolly, Brassic, The Ipcress File, The Full Monty, Alma's Not Normal, Red Rose and we have also seen Sylvester Stallone running up our town hall steps.
Local viewers will recognise the iconic architecture, outstanding countryside and green spaces.
But say the council historic court rooms, cells also make for great filming locations.
The TV dramas being aired 2024
Fool me Once
The eagerly anticipated Fool Me Once is released on Netflix on January 1.
Based on the novel by Harlan Corben novel, it stars Michelle Keegan alongside Joanna Lumley and Richard Armitage.
It is the latest Coben inspired series to be filmed in the town.
It based on a woman called Maya, played by Keegan, who installs a "nanny cam" to keep an eye on her young daughter.
Maya is shocked to see a man she recognises in her house - her dead husband Joe, played by Armitage.
Passenger
ITVX’s brand new six-part darkly comic thriller, Passenger, has been written by debut screenwriter Bolton actor Andrew Buchan, who is best known for his acting roles on Broadchurch, The Honourable Woman and Better, Passenger explores a close-knit community who are unwilling to face their fears of change, of outsiders and of the unknown. Set in the fictional small Northern town of Chadder Vale, Former Met Police Detective Riya Ajunwa (Wunmi Mosaku) investigates a series of strange and inexplicable crimes that have the townsfolk spinning on an axis.
Riya arrived in decaying Chadder Vale five years ago and has since been searching for that ‘one big crime’, the challenge that will make her feel alive again. Then one night local girl Katie Wells (Rowan Robinson) mysteriously disappears. The town barely has time to register her absence before she reappears the next day, apparently safe and sound. The townsfolk ask few questions and normal life resumes. But for Riya, a relative outsider to the Chadder Vale way of life, none of this sits right.
Filming crews were spotted in Westhoughton.
A Gentleman in Moscow
Photographer's from across the country descended on Bolton as Hollywood A-lister Ewan McGregor was in town for the filming of A Gentleman in Moscow.
Filming took place against the grand backdrop of Bolton Town Hall, with snow machines used.
Only the filming of Peaky Blinders a few years ago attracted more attention by the press.
Also in the cast is Mary Elizabeth Winstead, an actor whose own credits include Birds of Prey and Die Hard, and who married Ewan McGregor last year.
Based on a 2016 novel by Amor Towles and set at the time of the Russian Revolution, around 100 years ago, 'A Gentleman in Moscow' follows the fictional Count Alexander Rostov after he is spared execution, but sent to the Hotel Metropol on house arrest.
It is expected to show on Paramount Plus in 2024
Ridley
The nation's favourite detective will be back on screens this year for the second series of the primetime drama Ridley.
Filming is currently taking place in Le Mans Crescent.
Having previously filmed parts of the first series in Le Mans Crescent and outside the former Bolton Magistrates Court, crews headed back to Bolton to film at the back of Cheapside and Mawdsley Street.
It stars Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar.
Ridley will return to our screens on ITV.
Toxic Town
Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker and film star Robert Carlyle were spotted in Bolton over the summer, Monday, filming a new four-part Netflix series.
Filming for “Toxic Town”, is based on the real-life story of the Corby Poisonings.
The drama is based on the Corby poisonings, one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals.
In 2010, Corby Borough Council admitted that it had made mistakes in the clean up of the Northamptonshire town's steelworks.
Filming also took place in Breightmet at The Mosley Arms
It is expected the drama will air on Netflix next year.
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