Ever had a movie/TV series set or filmed in your home town? Was it cringe or "Oh look, that's my house!"

[KnopkaPixie]

My ex front door in my old flat has been filmed, fleetingly, on the French version of Come Dîne With Me as the historic building above the cheesemongers, and there is a TV series being filmed right now on location in my town depicting us all as mafia connected murderous types but in a tasteful and sort of Inspector Morse way, obviously. I live in Corsica.

I absolutely cringe whenever there is a depiction of where I live or have lived on the old telly screen and just want to shout, "Oh God, no! We're not all like that!"

Apart from the hand over mouth, mumble mumble well, sort of kind of like but...

Do you have experience of this phenomenon?

Oh, and I'm originally from Lancashire so...

Shameless.
The Lakes.
Sarah Lancashire as Sally Wainwright.

Had several films/programmes shot in the city I live in over the years, it weird when someone runs down one street and come out of another that in reality is nowhere near it.
No weird depictions tho
Come dine with me was filmed in two places I worked, where the producers wanted me to appear on the background/serve the person on it (so two out the four being featured)

*policewaoman in Happy Valley. (Didn't actually ever see this as left England before broadcast but have heard mixed accounts from family.

A road I used to live in was in Being Human. Not my house. It did feel a bit weird though, yes.

We got ridiculously excited when Please Like Me was shot on our Melbourne suburban street. That was a very quiet place so maybe we were starved for excitement?!

I've lived in a few places and come dine with me has been filmed in 2 places I lived. Also rab c nesbitt.

Gregory’s girl filmed in my town

Catastrophe was filmed in the street next to mine and in my local park.

https://www.corsematin.com/article/culture-loisirs/4899570316274314/casting-pour-un-telefilm-meurtres-en-balagne-qui-sera-diffuse-sur-france-2

They were looking for extras to add local colour! I don't think I would have passed though. But it is a murder mystery with mafia connections so I could have played it big as the token Irish gun smuggler like Miranda Richadson in The Crying Game.

A couple of Morse episodes had my then (externally rather grand) student house facade, and a little house I rented during the academic year in Galway appeared externally and internally in a Ken Bruen tv adaptation.

I live right by Brookside Close so it’s something I was used to growing up and me and my friends used to go to the barriers and watch it being filmed sometimes or try and catch some of the cast as they were leaving.

it is now a regular close with people living in the houses and looks quite tired.
lots and lots of people still turn up to have a look at it all these years on.

Inbetweeners filmed in our local high school and the one I have put as first choice for DS for next year! Hoping they don't turn out like that though and the teachers are better

Bridgeton, Persuasion, Vanity Fair, Remains of the Day probably countless more.

Just had Wicked, Paddington and the next Jurrasic Park filmed over the last year in my home town.

Oh, I only just noticed you said ‘town’ rather thsn house. Lots more, then — they were filming the first couple of Harry Potters during my Oxford days, as well as Quills, To Kill A King, and later Morse. And our north London flat was a few doors down from Poppy’s in Happy Go Lucky.

That's the other part of my post. I've never seen The Inbetweeners but did you ever cringe thinking, "That's a good school!"

Dramatic licence, fiction and all that but this film that's being made here makes us all out to be mafia hitmen and if we are, we don't kill people by hanging them off the edge of the citadelle.

Do some people think that the representation of their towns paint them in a bad or ridicolous light?

Casualty is filmed down the road from me

Going back a bit now, but a couple of scenes of Heartbeat were filmed down my street when I lived in Yorkshire. It was a pretty good deal at the time - £30 cash for a couple of hours of very mild inconvenience. I remember watching it avidly to see if I could spot my house, but it really was a fleeting glimpse. Still, £30 bought a fair amount of groceries back then, so I wasn’t complaining!

The Emmerdale “Hotton” scenes were also filmed in the town, and I quite often used to see members of the cast drinking in the local pubs.

Happy Valley is set in Sowerby Bridge/Halifax and is very clearly so with lots of references so I don’t think they’d be very happy about you claiming it as Lancashire.

I used to live in East Lothian and almost walked the dogs into the American Civil War one day when Outlander was being filmed in our local nature reserve across from my house 😂
My dad in law got the fright of his life when he came across a platoon of King George’s men in the woods on another occasion (also Outlander).
The famous mill scene where Jamie loses his shirt was filmed 5 mins from my house (also Outlander, and if you know what scene I’m talking about, you’ll understand completely why I was gutted I missed it 😁)

Whoops!

If you've ever watched Wedding Season on Disney+ then they throw a car off a cliff in my town.

However I grew up in Glasgow. My primary school was on an episode of Rab C Nesbitt. The pub my mum went to a regular quiz night in was the one on Trainspotting when Begbie throws the glass. And just overall general places we knew sometimes appearing on stuff.

Sherwood has negatively impacted house prices here. Its taken a long time for former mining villages to start to improve and it doesn’t help when a series then portrays them as extremely grim and insular.

Do you live in an unfeasibly large and beautiful country manse?

They filmed The Bill where I used to live (Colliers Wood / Merton). I'm probably stomping irritably in the background here and there, having been told to vacate the street while I was trying to get to the tube station in time for work! I rarely recognised the locations when I watched it, though, due to the aforementioned cutting from one place to the next while pretending it's all part of the same set.

It must be weird being a TV actor, delivering a line in one place and the next line, hours later, somewhere else. Or is that not how they do it?

Yes, major insult in West Yorkshire. They also filmed “Where the Heart Is” and “Last Tango in Halifax” in the same area.
It is a long time since I lived up there but I do love watching the series. It feels familiar. Certainly not cringe-worthy or weird. Perhaps it’s because I’m a proud Yorkshire woman.
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The detective series that follows on from “Death in Paradise” is set in my late sister’s Cornish town. I love spotting where they are filming in the town.

OP are you embarrassed by your home town? Why does it make you cringe to see it on TV?