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The latest news from Film:New Forest can be found below.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

11 April 2023

Great Expectations, currently airing on BBC1 is a new series adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel, for BBC and Disney FX by Steven Knight, the creator of BAFTA-winning Peaky Blinders.   Film:New Forest were contacted by the production back in 2021 when they started their recce process.     Filming took place last year…

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The Woodland Workshop

The Woodland Workshop

19 January 2023

The second series of Woodland Workshop (known as Kings of the Wood for series 1) started earlier this month and viewers might be surprised to know that both series was filmed on the Beaulieu Estate. Ricochet, the production company behind the programme, contacted the office back in 2021 enquiring about workshop space in a woodland…

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Motorhoming with merton and webster

Motorhoming with Merton and Webster

19 January 2023

Curve Media, the production company behind Motorhoming with Merton and Webster contacted us back in June 2022, ahead of filming for the New Forest Episode (which aired on Channel 5 on 15 January) After a lengthy discussion, with the full itinerary laid out, we established who landowners were to ensure the correct permissions were sought…

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The Crown Somerley Estate ©Netflix

The Crown Season 5

21 November 2022

The Crown returns to Netflix this November, with the fifth series of the award-winning show edging ever closer to the modern-day chronicles of the Royal Family. This series focuses on the early to late 1990s – a period in which the marriage of Charles and Diana was not only disintegrating, but subject to mass media…

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Future TX

Future TX

20 October 2022

Filmmakers based in Poole, are getting ready for their cinematic release of their new feature film Future TX featuring Griff Rhys Jones. The film sees Dylan and Molly buy their first mobile phones and they instantly both ring at the same time. When they answer, a Mystery Man (known as Future TX) says he’s calling from…

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The Football Factory

The Football Academy

19 October 2022

The Football Academy is a CBBC series following the young boys, girls, and para-players at Southampton Football Academy narrated by Alan Carr. The Film:New Forest office was contacted back in February by Zig Zag to start the permission process for filming. The production company had been commissioned to follow the young academy members for 12…

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