Filming took place around Sheffield and elsewhere in South Yorkshire during 2023 for a new HBO miniseries called The Regime, starring Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant, which hit screens in spring 2024. An armoured vehicle is visible here during filming around an old steel cementation furnace in Shalesmoor. Film crews were also seen in Sheffield Botanical Gardens and at Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham.placeholder image
Filming took place around Sheffield and elsewhere in South Yorkshire during 2023 for a new HBO miniseries called The Regime, starring Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant, which hit screens in spring 2024. An armoured vehicle is visible here during filming around an old steel cementation furnace in Shalesmoor. Film crews were also seen in Sheffield Botanical Gardens and at Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham. | @steelcitysnaps via Twitter

29 movies and TV shows filmed in Sheffield and elsewhere in South Yorkshire, including two being shot now

From The Full Monty to Doctor Who and Kes, South Yorkshire has featured on the big and small screen more often than you might realise

You may have seen film and TV crews near you in Sheffield, with two big new projects being filmed right now.

Shooting has started for the big screen biopic Giant, featuring Pierce Brosnan and telling the rags-to-riches story of Sheffield boxing great Naseem Hamed and his legendary coach Brendan Ingle.

Filming is also well underway for a new four-part BBC thriller Reunion, from the makers of the critically acclaimed This is England.

They are just the latest in a long list of movies and TV shows which have been filmed around Sheffield and South Yorkshire.

From smash hit comedy The Full Monty and its recent TV reboot to Doctor Who and classics like Kes and the still-haunting apocalyptic drama Threads, Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster have featured on the big and small screen more often than you may realise.

How many of these films and TV programmes filmed across the region have you seen?

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