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Check out where you can spot London on-screen this month, with our monthly focus on brand new shows and films filmed in London! Read all about the film locations of new shows Mr Loverman, Disclaimer, The Diplomat and more. This month, with the BFI London Film Festival underway, we're listing all the exciting premieres in the lineup that filmed in London, including Steve McQueen's Blitz. Find out the real London film locations behind these new productions below!
We start with the return of The Diplomat, a Netflix political thriller that seized the attention of TV audiences across the world in 2023. Season 2 arrives on Netflix October 31st with Keri Russell reprising her role as Kate Wyler, the US ambassador dispatched to London amidst a global political crisis. Oscar winner Allison Janney joins the cast for the new season alongside familiar faces Rufus Sewell and David Gyasi. After the nail-biting season 1 finale, Wyler looks to save her rocky marriage and navigate the fierce arrival of US Vice President Grave Penn (Janney). You can watch a feisty teaser to this upcoming political showdown here.
Most importantly, where was The Diplomat filmed? Season 1 filmed throughout the capital and featured a plethora of London locations on screen such as: Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich, Drapers' Hall, Pall Mall, Chatham House, Grosvenor Crescent in Belgravia and the charming streets of ''Little Portugal'' near the US Embassy in Nine Elms where the show's action predominantly takes place. Get ready to see all of these incredible London film locations back on Netflix this month!
Legendary film director Alfonso Cauron makes his streaming debut with a brand new show for Apple TV+. Disclaimer filmed in London and is an an unmissable new series starring Cate Blanchett, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Lesley Manville. At the centre of Disclaimer's riveting mystery is journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) who discovers that her darkest secrets have been exposed in a new novel with no author. Ravenscroft's horror at this discovery forces her to face her troubled past as she spirals deeper into the labyrinth opened by the mysterious novel. Disclaimer's London film locations include Archway in North London, Portobello Road in Notting Hill and more. Which other London locations can you spot in the show's trailer here? The limited series is out on Apple TV on October 11th.
There's also plenty of London on screen in Industry season 3, now out on BBC iPlayer! Industry returns to thrust us back into the toxic, glamorous and unrelenting pace of the City where London's 'square mile' houses the capital's financial district. Starring Marisa Abela, season 3 introduces Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington to heighten the stakes amidst existing tensions of million-pound deals and secret romances. Industry season 3 filmed throughout the City of London of course, as well as locations such as Southwark Bridge and Lambeth Bridge.
Another exciting series worth a mention this month is The Franchise on HBO Max. The new satirical comedy series comes from legendary UK filmmakers Sam Mendes and Armando Iannucci and filmed in London. The witty new series explores the frustrations and artistic cynicism behind making a superhero film franchise. Featured actors include Himesh Patel, Aya Cash, Richard E. Grant and Daniel Brühl.
To round off this month's exciting array of new TV releases, we're excited to see Mr Lovermanout on BBC iPlayer! Based on award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo's 2013 novel, the new series stars Lennie James (Save Me, The Walking Dead) as Barrington Jedidiah Walker, a Hackney-based, married man whose 50 year-old secret is exposed to the world. Walker's life unravels when his decades-long affair with his best friend, Morris, forces him to make decisions that will change his family's life forever. Mr Loverman filmed on location in London in areas such as Stoke Newington at Abney Park cemetery, Queen's Park, and other areas in Hackney. Check out the upbeat teaser trailer here.
London On-Screen at the 67th BFI London Film Festival
We can't go without mentioning all the new films in this year's BFI LFF lineup that filmed in London! If you're at the Festival this week, look out for London on screen in some of these programme highlights!
We're delighted to be presenting We Live in Time at the Mayor of London’s Gala this year! Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in this new romance that will certainly pull on the heart strings. Pugh and Garfield filmed throughout London during production in areas such as Brockwell Park and Herne Hill in South London.
Another London-set, hard-hitting drama at this year's Festival is Mike Leigh's Hard Truths. Leigh returns to the silver screen after a 7-year absence from directing, bringing us a film about bitterness and loneliness in the modern world. Featuring an astonishing performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the film looks to family life as an uplifting comfort from the apathy of contemporary life.
Blitz sees Steve McQueen and Saoirse Ronan return to filming in London in a new World War Two epic for Apple TV. The new historical drama filmed in London so look out for locations in areas such as Westminster, Wapping, Greenwich, and Waterloo.
This year's LFF also features a special first look at new Disney+ show A Thousand Blows starring Stephen Graham, Malachi Kirby (Small Axe) and The Crown's Erin Doherty. Set in the murky underworld of illegal boxing in 1880s London, the new 12-part series focuses on the Forty Elephants, an all-female shoplifting gang that operated in the capital's seedy, Victorian-era criminal scene. The series filmed in South West London's Story Works Studios.
Finally, we're excited to see Layla at LFF and the London film locations behind Film London alumnus Amrou Al-Kadhi's debut feature. Layla filmed throughout East London and tells the story of the titular Palestinian-British drag performer who navigates cultural differences and romance as they meet a new, white love interest named Max.
Check out the full lineup for this year's stacked BFI London Film Festival here.