Printed: 12:01 am, 8 September 2025
The BBC is the most important producer of tales which might be ‘product of’ the UK’s folks, locations and communities. We hope that the Made Of marketing campaign will shine a light-weight on our distinctive function in bringing the most effective of those programmes to our screens.
From Manchester to Cardiff, Shetland to West Yorkshire and the Residence Counties to Blackpool, audiences will see their residence cities mirrored on the BBC this autumn.
The BBC has launched a marketing campaign – Made Of Right here – to have a good time its commitment to supporting homegrown storytelling. On the coronary heart of the marketing campaign is a compelling new movie; the BBC’s love letter to the house cities and cities throughout the UK which have impressed a few of its most iconic TV reveals and characters.
The marketing campaign comes because the BBC’s new season schedule will get underway, full of homegrown drama, comedy and factual programmes.
New programmes because of be broadcast on the BBC this autumn embody:
- Better Manchester-set romantic comedy-drama Film Club, co-created by and starring Aimee Lou Wooden and Ralph Davis, which was filmed within the metropolis
- Not too long ago launched thriller The Guest starring Eve Myles and Gabrielle Creevy, filmed in South Wales and set in Cardiff, accessible now on BBC iPlayer
- Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women, set and filmed in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
- Wild Cherry, by BAFTA-winner Nicôle Lecky, set and filmed within the Residence Counties
- Small Prophets, a brand new comedy created and written by Mackenzie Criminal, which is about in and filmed round Manchester
- Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles from areas throughout the UK
- Titanic Sinks Tonight, a brand new 4 half documentary with dramatisations, filmed in Belfast
- Leonard and Hungry Paul, set in Eire, will probably be narrated by actress Julia Roberts, starring Northern Eire’s Jamie-Lee O’Donnell
- Farm 999, a 15-part daytime collection introduced by Steph McGovern, filmed in farms throughout the UK
Hit programmes returning to the BBC embody:
- Norfolk’s How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
- A Christmas particular of Glasgow’s Two Doors Down
- Specials of Mrs Brown’s Boys, which is about in Dublin
- Second collection of Mammoth, the comedy which is shot in Cardiff
- Second collection of Daddy Issues, which is made in Stockport, the place it’s set
- Third collection of Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams, that includes Bootle in Liverpool, Blackpool and Manchester, available now on iPlayer
- Third collection of Highland Cops, overlaying the work of the UK’s largest beat
- Collection 10 of the drama Shetland
- Third collection of Blue Lights, set and filmed in Belfast
- Second collection of Stacey & Joe, from Pickle Cottage in Essex
- Hope Street returns with collection 5 and reaches a milestone – its fiftieth episode, filmed in Donaghadee, Northern Eire
- Strictly Come Dancing will make its annual and much-anticipated return to Blackpool in November
In the meantime, followers of EastEnders are having fun with the return of Zoe Slater to the East Finish after 20 years, and Manchester-made and set Waterloo Road will return for series 16.
BBC Radio 4’s new drama slate highlights storytelling with a powerful sense of place, together with High Cockalorum, broadcast on 18 September. Starring Mark Gatiss and his League of Gents co-stars, it is a comedy drama by Bradford author Jeremy Dyson, set in West Yorkshire and impressed by a real-life assembly between a Hollywood star and a humble lad from Leeds.
Listeners can catch extra Bradford-based drama in Blue Envelopes, plus different upcoming dramas from throughout the UK together with Astronomers, set throughout a street journey via Wales; Belief, set in Salford; Samhain and Marwick, each set within the haunting landscapes of Scotland, and Downstream, positioned within the idyllic great thing about the Fens.
In upcoming episodes of documentaries for BBC Radio 4, Currently explores Scottish Independence, Archive on 4 travels to Chesire, Illuminated sheds mild on Bolton and East Anglia and The Patch continues cowl the extraordinary unheard tales unfolding throughout the UK because of a randomly generated postcode.
There are additionally a variety of podcasts reflecting tales and voices from throughout the UK, together with the lately launched Ballad of Big Mags from Scotland and upcoming When a Catfish Kills from Northern Eire, each a part of the Crime Subsequent Door collection, in addition to In Detail... Sanctuary from Manchester coming later in September.
The autumn releases are a part of the continued dedication from the BBC to supply extra programming throughout the UK. In a year-on-year enhance, in 2024/25 the BBC broadcast 581 hours of high-impact programmes set in and portraying particular areas of the UK on our community TV channels and BBC iPlayer. This is 13% higher than our commitment and 16% higher than in 2023/24.
Extra comedies and dramas because of return for second collection and in manufacturing embody: the Glasgow-set, award-winning comedy Dinosaur, which is filmed within the metropolis; Ludwig, starring David Mitchell, set in Cambridge; Liverpool drama This City Is Ours; Smoggie Queens, the sitcom from Middlesbrough; and Funboys, the comedy set and filmed in Northern Eire.
Filming has lately began on a third series of Granite Harbour, which is about in Aberdeen and filmed in Aberdeenshire and Glasgow. In the meantime, the second series of Only Child, which is about on the Moray coast, is filming in Glasgow and areas in Paisley, Helensburgh and Dunlop. Filming has additionally began in South Wales on a second series of Death Valley starring Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth.
Additionally in Scotland, a brand new collection of much-loved kids’s programme Balamory, which is being reimagined greater than 20 years after it was final broadcast, is being filmed in studio in Glasgow and on location in Tobermory, the real-life Isle of Mull city that impressed the present’s setting. The primary Silent Witness collection to be made in and that includes Birmingham may also be coming to screens.
The brand new movie for the Made Of Right here marketing campaign has been shot throughout the UK, from Shetland to Kimmeridge Bay. We filmed with 96 native forged and labored with 120 native crew throughout all our filming areas. The movie is about to the soundtrack of a bespoke model of Myles Smith’s My Residence by Alex Baranowski, displaying native landmarks and taking part in out spine-tingling scenes from among the BBC’s best-loved reveals.
Audiences will see Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders splashed throughout the Black Nation Residing Museum in Dudley, Gavin & Stacey on a trailer in Barry Island Pleasure Park and Blue Lights on a transport container in entrance of Titanic Belfast.
The ultimate body reminds viewers that the BBC is Made Of the locations that present the settings for the programmes – together with Glasgow, Belfast, Brentford, Birmingham, Shetland, Preston, Liverpool, Bolton, Barry Island, Dorset and London’s East Finish and Peckham. It will likely be proven throughout the BBC and on social media together with every week of particular content material on The One Show and Morning Live, specializing in the real-life inspirational tales behind our beloved standard programmes.
Alongside the nationwide movie, the marketing campaign – which has been produced in home on the BBC by BBC Artistic – will probably be delivered to life in advertising and marketing activations in cities and cities throughout the UK, spotlighting the native areas which have impressed the BBC to inform these tales.
Myles Smith, whose observe options within the movie, says: “It means rather a lot to me when my music makes an affect, so it’s very particular to listen to My Residence soundtrack this highly effective and vital celebration of UK storytelling. My hometown of Luton gave me my roots, formed me and helps me keep grounded. I hope this connects with folks and reminds them of their very own hometowns, wherever that could be.”
Myles Smith, one of many UK’s very personal homegrown storytellers, has had an thrilling journey with the BBC. He was supported early on by BBC Introducing within the East Midlands and Introducing in Northampton & Three Counties, earlier than reaching nationwide help by way of BBC Introducing on BBC Radio 1. In 2024, Myles carried out on the BBC Introducing Stage at Radio 1’s Huge Weekend in his residence city of Luton, received the BBC Introducing Artist of the Yr award, and was chosen for Radio 1’s Brit Checklist – an initiative launched in 2017 to help and develop the UK’s most fun rising artists, which has since helped propel many to wider recognition.
Kate Phillips, BBC Chief Content material Officer, says: “The BBC is extremely happy with the main function we play in bringing the most effective homegrown storytelling to our audiences, whether or not that’s in landmark dramas, laugh-out-loud comedies or memorable factual programmes. We all know that our audiences worth the sort of content material and that it might probably even positively have an effect on how related they really feel to different folks.
“The BBC is the most important producer of tales which might be ‘product of’ the UK’s folks, locations and communities. We hope that the Made Of marketing campaign will shine a light-weight on our distinctive function in bringing the most effective of those programmes to our screens.”
The general public may also have the prospect to be within the viewers for an unique screening of Riot Women, the brand-new drama from the multi-BAFTA award-winning author Sally Wainwright, who created Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax and Gentleman Jack. Apply for free tickets for the event in Hebden Bridge here.
The BBC is the largest single investor in UK-made programming, with 99% of its unique content material made within the UK. It contributes £4.9 billion to the UK economic system annually, with 50% of that affect exterior London, in comparison with 20% for the broader trade.
For each £1 of the BBC’s direct financial exercise, £2.63 is generated within the UK economic system as a complete and 58% of its TV commissioning spend is exterior London. The BBC additionally invests in dedicated local services for every part of the UK.
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