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've lived in Glasgow and Oxford and there are lots of things fiimed in both of those cities so you get used to it. I was disappointed that in His Dark Materials they didn't have Will moving between worlds at the roundabout at the top of Banbury Road though (which is where it happened in the books).

I grew up in Orkney and there are two films that have been filmed there, Venus Peter back in the 80s which jumped about all over the place and as a result was quite discombobulating to watch if you knew the locations well. More recently The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan was filmed there and that was fabulous. All the extras were local and it really reflected what Orkney actually is like. Everyone at home loved it.

A few things not in my street but in my haunts. The film Rye Lane was filmed partially in... Peckham Rye. Lots of filming in Dulwich and Brixton.

When I was little my mum was always proud that Keeping Up Appearances was filmed in Leamington Spa, her home town.

My nans street and house in whitstable was on a wartime drama years ago. That was weird to see.

it was a pain in the arse for the residents though. My Nan complained everyday lol

We had a few scenes from the Russell T Davies series Banana filmed at our house and the outside.

We got a note through the door and thought why not. They filmed for a day and brought a lot of props and tacked some pictures to the wall. As it was a new build we didn't mind as we hadn't decorated and they came an filled in any holes etc

We were told to go out for the day and as we left saw a giant truck pull into our small cul de sac and a burly security guard posted at the bottom of the road. I was mortified but apparently all the neighbours found the filming fascinating.

We got £500

My boyfriend at the time had to move out of his uni rooms for a week or so because they were using his college building (St John's, Cambridge) for Elizabeth: the Golden Age. Not sure if he got any money for the inconvenience or was just told. I also remember going for an early morning rowing outing and going past a huge Tudor-esque barge on the river. I love seeing Cambridge pop up on TV, most recently on Ludwig. Don't live there any more, but I'm not aware of any big TV shows featuring Milton Keynes!

Balamory
When Eight Bells Toll
Entrapment
I Know Where I'm Going

And a new Jamie Dornan movie filmed earlier this year

I live in and around the Hope Street area. Not fussed on the show but it makes the area look beautiful and has done so much for tourism.

About 30 years ago the BBC made a version of Little Lord Fauntleroy and the outside of my friends house was used as a location for the poor village. Our school bus went past the house so we saw the set being created.

In Bristol where I grew up:

Only Fools and Horses.
The Young Ones.
Early series of Casualty (one of my neighbours was in the production crew).
Skins
The Outlaws
The Good Girls Guide to Murder (my school was used).
Why Don't you?

I now live just outside Bristol and the only things I can remember being filmed locally are an occasional episode of Casualty and one episode of Eastenders (where they "crashed" a car into a local shop that was due for demolition).

Not where I live now but Bodies on Netflix was filmed in my home town and my brother couldn't get into work for a few days as they were filming on the street where his office is

I watched some of the filming in the cathedral! The cloisters were filled with snow (actually white paper) and we stood for ages watching hogwarts students hurrying along the other side of the cloisters near the chapter house. A crew member walked over and introduced us to the owl he was holding during a particularly long break.

I saw Elizabeth at the cinema in Durham. Everyone fell about laughing when a messenger leaves the chapter house, rides for miles and delivers the letter to the Galilee chapel (both in Durham cathedral).

We’ve had loads of big Hollywood films filmed in my local city. I’ve had friends who have been extras.

My dad’s old workplace is often taken over by filming, he spent 5 days on set with Tom Hanks once (dad had to be there to oversee the film crew). Said Tom Hanks was lovely and queued up with everyone else for lunch. He sat at the same table with Tom one day chatting to him and came home and asked me if I knew who he was (dad had never heard of him).

My town was featured in an episode of Four in a Bed (the B&B version of Come Dine With Me). I don’t remember much about the episode as it was years ago but the big excitement for us is that my father in law did the plastering and tiling in the hosts house 😆 The visitors didn’t say anything about the town that the locals haven’t been saying for decades (‘you can see it used to be lovely but it’s very tired looking now…’)

Flog It filmed a few episodes at a nearby NT property. My father in law was featured and his item sold at auction for a few hundred quid.

BBC Scotland filmed an episode of a series about small Scottish towns and featured lots of locals. We actually came out of that pretty well.

My office block is in Emily in Paris so we saw a lot of the filming. It's a nicer bit of Paris so it's actually like the show, even down to them using the right bakery and buying the things that that bakery is good at! She takes some very strange routes across Paris though and some of the meeting spots are completely geographically illogical...

They were filming something in my village once. They put up a ‘welcome to…’ sign with a new village name on it. I was so baffled before I spotted the camera crew.

Nope. Workers digs in a tiny bedsit on one of famous streets in Bath that is used in everything. It's all a façade, outside looks like a film set and used as such but inside is pretty dire.

Threads. None of it was there for long 😂

All the time - I live in a London borough which is a very popular filming destination and makes quite a lot of money from both TV and film. It's fun spotting local places in their fictional guise, but never a huge surprise!

My home town was used for the Yesterday film and Richard Curtis has just shot another one a few miles away. After the film lots of the older houses on the seafront were bought and have been done up apparently it was a couple of the stars and film crew as homes are fairly cheap here and it's a nice area.

An episode of Car Share was filmed in the town i grew up. It was odd seeing a place i knew so well on the TV.
Also an episode of Juliet Bravo in the 80s.

Not quite what you wanted but have been in New York and Tangier for holidays. N.Y. came upon a CSI episode being filmed and in T one of the James Bonds.

The flat nextdoor to us was used as Ciara Porters apartment in one of the strike series, the flat the otherside is owned by Russell Tovey so a few of his art episodes were filmed there. We don’t live there anymore, so stalker free information.

Doctor thingy (Scott?) the crime drama with whatshername was filmed in my home town.

One of the BBC1 idents is a view over our town centre from a bench on a hill.

The World's End movie was filmed in DH's home town. MIL and FIL used to stand and watch the filming. SIL watched them 'exploding' the final pub at the end of her road. They held the world premiere at the town's independent cinema which was awesome.

This year's McDonalds Christmas ad was filmed in my colleague's road and you can see her house.

Some of Sweetpea was filmed in our town including some scenes at the end of our road but facing the other way so you can't see our house.

Oh some of that James McAvoy one was filmed in Dundee too. I'm nearby but didn't go through while they were doing it. One of the guys that movie is about went to my high school though. 🤣

I've also remembered that there's a new Frankenstein coming to Netflix soon and they were filming in a big old house pretty much across the road from my parents for a while. A friend of mine was acting in it too so I'll be looking for her and places I know when it's out.