{"id":51895,"date":"2026-11-15T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/were-a-city-that-says-yes-how-liverpool-became-the-hollywood-of-the-north-and-how-it-plans-to-stay-that-way\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:34:46","slug":"were-a-city-that-says-yes-how-liverpool-became-the-hollywood-of-the-north-and-how-it-plans-to-stay-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/were-a-city-that-says-yes-how-liverpool-became-the-hollywood-of-the-north-and-how-it-plans-to-stay-that-way\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re a city that says yes\u2019: How Liverpool became the Hollywood of the North \u2013 and how it plans to stay that way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking my usual route into the centre of Liverpool<\/a> a few months ago, I did a double take: the car park I pass each day was suddenly teeming with Sixties-style vehicles, resplendent with sleek tailfins and leather seats. Much as the evidence suggested otherwise, I hadn\u2019t fallen into a time warp \u2013 this fleet of classic cars was simply a sign that another period drama was setting up shop in the city<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Living here means getting used to these double-take moments. Your commute might bring you past a Cold War intelligence base for a John le Carr\u00e9 adaptation<\/a>, or an elaborately built prison camp, like the one that popped up in Sefton Park for Channel 4 thriller Army of Shadows. <\/em><\/p>\n

My home city<\/a> is now the most filmed area in the UK outside of London, hosting more than 1,600 film and TV productions since 2019; these have brought in around \u00a3150m to the local economy. Not for nothing has it acquired the nickname of \u201cthe Hollywood of the North\u201d. On average, there are \u201cabout three or four productions filming simultaneously\u201d, says Lynn Saunders, head of the Liverpool Film Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Taking my usual route into the centre of Liverpool a few months ago, I did a double take: the car park I pass each day was suddenly teeming with Sixties-style vehicles, resplendent with sleek tailfins and leather seats. Much as the evidence suggested otherwise, I hadn\u2019t fallen into a time warp \u2013 this fleet of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[421,1210,36,2554],"class_list":["post-51895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netbuzz","tag-culture","tag-features","tag-mixtv","tag-tv-amp-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}