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?

I haven't lived in the UK for 24 years. I still get a bit homesick at times and my boundaries of Lancashire and Yorkshire might have got a bit blurred because I left when I was so young and it's just a generic conforting accent to me because I have elderly relatives that live on both sides of the Pennines.

I don't really speak or write much English in real life and don't have a television or any streaming services. Part of me being on Mumsnet is to get my English language skills going again. I have a 1€ Samsung phone for a bit of youtube and that's it unless I stay in a hotel or watch somebody else's stuff on a big screen. My knowledge of TV series was a quick search of garbled memory for a hopefully lighthearted social media thread.

Sometimes a representation of your home town or an area you love can be a bit misleading or pander to stereotypes. That TV. It's a broad brush approach.

This thread hasn't gone the way I thought it would, actually, which is fine and I'm enjoying all the responses but when I wrote it, I thought it would go more in the vein of, "Oh gosh, they filmed such and such here and now everybody thinks we're all yokels/criminals/posho twits/insert whatever.

I was inspired to write the OP because a quite big budget production is being filmed in my area and whilst I'm excited about it, it is, ooh, a bit hackneyed? A gangster flick in Corsica? Say it ain't so!

It's just a bit of fun on a Friday night.

That’s a shame.

I watched Sherwood and mainly thought the houses were pretty and the countryside was nice. But I am shallow!

Line of Duty was shot in my city and I love playing guess the location when I watch it.

The countryside is beautiful. The mining villages could have done without being portrayed as though it’s still 1970

Not everyone in Ceredigion lives in a falling apart house in the middle of nowhere / static caravan in the woods and has a dark secret. (Hinterland, if you're trying to work it out.)

Glasgow often doubles as New York in big productions. We went to see Batgirl being filmed... very exciting, lots of classic cars and fake snow... and then of course they canned the whole film!

Saw James McAvoy this month directing his new film. A wall was spray painted with a Trainspotting mural. Saw them takeing it down a few days later.

Lots of Outlander scenes are shot in Glasgow, too. Always something happening in town 😀

Only all hours was filmed here.

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I lived in Grantchester while they were filing the tv series.

They repainted a few houses and shut the main road on a few occasions.

The village got very excited at one point because they asked for a load of extras who lived there.

We don't murder each other as far as I know.

Just saw your last post -

I understand what you mean about negative connotations. There was a period when Glasgow was basically depicted as gangsters and criminal thugs in hard-hitting kitchen-sink poverty-porn dramas. Now there's more variety in what's being filmed so that's definitely good. I never took it personally because I knew it didn't reflect the life of anyone I knew. If people watching these films would tar a whole area with negative associations because they once watched a film set there then more fool them.

So I wouldn't take it personally, OP. They're works of fiction and a suspension of disbelief is required, and I'd hope most people understand they aren't watching a documentary.

I live in Brighton, so the tv series Grace

Bury (Lancashire) was used a lot for filming when I lived there. Scott and Bailey, and Cold Feet amongst others. It was really funny to spot bits, especially when they turned a corner and emerged in a completely different place.

Midsomer Murders on quite few occasions.

The murder rate is thankfully much less!

The next village over was used for scenes set in winter. Was a bit peculiar driving through it in the middle of summer with fake snow everywhere, Christmas tree on the village green.

Not mine but the last couple of series of Waterloo road were filmed in the school directly behind my DD's house, and some scenes were shot in her street. It was fun to watch it and try and spot her house and they got asked to move their cars off the street on several occasions during filming.

I'm in Northumberland so Vera is filmed in lots of locations in the area. Makes me laugh every time Vera leaves her house filmed on Holy Island to arrive at Newcastle 5 minutes later. No thought given to the tide times

Live not far from Trinity St. Often get stuck behind Dave's Coaches ♥️

I live in a village so these are my nearest towns rather than where I actually live - An episode of Top Gear, Kes, one of the towns in Our Dancing Town.

A student house my uni boyfriend lived in was featured on homes under the hammer when the landlord wanted to sell up, it was an absolute dump and the presenter slated the condition of it and the buyers detailed their plans for renovation.

I was in the cinema in Durham to watch a middle of the night showing on the day the first Harry Potter film came out. There was a (slightly inebriated) cheer every time a shot of the cathedral was included. I don’t think there was filming inside the cathedral for the later movies but it’s towers are still a recognisable osry of the Hogwarts exterior shots.

They filmed a whole car chase scene in our village for a Johnny English film. Was fun to watch etc. weird thing was, it didn't make the cut!

I live in a tourist town that hosts a big event annually. So I like to say things like 'Oh look! ' and 'Gosh it looks different when on tv'.

Recently I watched the netflix comedy Fisk and that was set around where I used to live in Melbourne. That was very exciting too.

A touch of Frost is filmed all over Leeds and Castleford. Plenty of recognisable areas when I watch it. I'm actually in one of them when I car chase is taking place (we thought it was real at the time) until we walked further up and someone from the pub told us it was David Jason filming for ATOF.

Also a low-budget movie called Mishief Night is filmed exactly where I was born and grew up in Leeds. Most of it takes place on my old street on Maud Avenue.

The estate I grew up on was the setting for a film about the lives of a few people who were living in squalor, on the dole, extreme poverty, lowest rung of the ladder, every other word a swear word, etc. Some shit happened to them, the reviews used the word "gritty" a lot.

They used the scruffiest streets, the houses with the worst gardens, and the film still didn't make living on that estate look as horrendous it actually was.

Countryfile has been filmed round here more than once.

Our old house is in several episodes of Supernatural and Bates Motel. I used to watch them filming from my bedroom window.