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2026 has arrived and that means we're back with our new year rundown of where to see London on screen this month, and everything currently filming in the capital.
Idris Elba in Hijack, copyright Apple TV
The latest series of Idris Elba Apple show Hijack launches this week. Although set in Berlin, much of the stage work was shot in London. Elba stars as expert negotiator Sam Nelson, who after stopping terrorists from taking over an airplane, is back to save passengers taken hostage on another commuter vehicle.
Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet is now in cinemas. The production found a perfect home within the ancient walls of the Charterhouse in Clerkenwell. One of Film London’s Premiere Locations, the site is among London’s most cinematic historic settings. While much of the film was shot in Herefordshire and Wales, the Charterhouse became the beating heart of Shakespeare’s London on screen, hosting nearly all exterior scenes in the Capital. Described by Zhao as a story of grief, love and the healing power of art, the film follows Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) as they navigate loss and creativity, with the timeless location bringing the Elizabethan period vividly to life.
Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger) and Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) (Image: BBC/Bronte Film & TV/Justin Downing)
There's no New Year hangover for production in the capital, with plenty of projects for both the big and small screen continuing this month.
Strike - The Running Grave is the latest adaptation of Robert Galbraith/ JK Rowling's crime series. Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger return for the next instalment of Strike in The Running Grave, the seventh story of the BBC’s hit crime drama in co-production with HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery. This series sees a family enlist the Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott to gather evidence to discredit a religious cult, who have indoctrinated their son and siphoned off his trust fund
The second season of Tom Hardy crime drama MobLand has been spotted in production across the capital, including locations such as Scott's restaurant in Mayfair and on-location in Wandsworth. Joining Season One regulars Hardy and Pierce Brosnan are Johnny Flynn and Ophelia Lovibond as series regulars.