An international television drama – starring John Hannah and Rupert Everett – is filming across Bath this week.
Hot on the heels of the Egyptian TV drama “Herbert’s Dream” which filmed in Bath earlier this year, the Council is helping to host another international drama series in the city, “The Other Wife”, made for German television.
It is a welcome return for the Anglo-German production company Gate Television which visited Bath three years ago to film “Four Seasons” – another adaptation from the best-selling novels of Rosamunde Pilcher.
Locations this time round will include The Assembly Rooms, The Circus, Lansdown Crescent and the Theatre Royal in Bath, as well as Neston Park in Wiltshire.
Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Film Office, together with Council staff across a number of different services, have been busy helping to set up filming in the region which is taking place over a seven week period during April and May.
Councillor Cherry Beath (Lib-Dem, Combe Down), Cabinet Member for Sustainable Development, said: “Bath & North East Somerset Council is delighted to welcome this production company back to Bath. These are classic romances, beautifully shot with an internationally acclaimed star-studded cast. They are immensely popular on German TV, and attract coach loads of tourists to our area every year, to see the real locations in their English setting.”
“These productions not only showcase our city to an international audience but also bring direct economic benefits to the local economy employing local people and using local facilities.”
Instrumental in bringing these dramas back to Bath is local director, and ex-Monkton Combe School pupil, Giles Foster, whose credits include Foyle’s War, Bertie and Elizabeth and Hotel du Lac.
He said: “We are thrilled to be back in the Bath area. We’ve had such a great experience over the years on other films that when discussing where to set this latest project, there was only really ever one choice. It really is such an extraordinarily beautiful part of the world.”
This latest Rosamunde Pilcher production tells the story of the Kendall family who discover, that despite outward appearances, their lives are far from perfect. The cast includes John Hannah and Rupert Everett.
