Bracknell locations where film and TV crews have shot footage

But did you know just how much Bracknell has been on the big screen?

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This week the News revealed film crews were shooting a Channel 4 documentary near Easthampstead House, and it's not the first time the town had a lights, camera, action moment.

Two Harry Potter films have been shot in the borough - one in Martin’s Heron, and one in Swinley Forest.

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Here’s a list of some of the other projects filmed around Bracknell Forest.

Cruella, Disney - 2019

Filming for the Disney’s new Cruella movie finished filming in November 2019.

A lot of the film was shot at Easthampstead House and one person who worked inside the building told the News: "I work in the building. Disney are filming the live action Cruella film in the reception for the next month."

Lee Mack's Semi-Detached

TV crews were spotted in Sandhurst Waitrose car park filming ' Lee Mack show.

Bristol Television & Film Services crews were filming at a nearby house in Fraser Mead, which features on the show Semi-Detached.

Unforgotten, ITV - 2020

Production crews with cameras set up their filming location in Town Square in Bracknell Town Centre for an ITV drama back in February.

Unforgotten follows the journey of DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan as they discover a dismembered body in a scrap metal yard, which the team believe has been stored in a domestic freezer for thirty years.

Netflix, The Witcher - 2020

Filming for a second series of The Witcher on Netflix was rumoured to be filming in Swinley Forest, Bracknell.

Production crews were seen on the land belonging to The Crown Estate today by a resident passing by.

One resident called Nathan said: "The Witcher is filming locally right now."

Midsomer Murders

Okay, it may not be groundbreaking or a hollywood blockbuster but the forest was used as a backdrop for the 2005 episode Sauce for the Goose, according to IMDb.

The Wrong Mans - 2014

James Corden’s sitcom The Wrong Mans sees Berkshire County Council worker Sam Pinkett (played by Matthew Baynton) become accidentally involved in an international conspiracy.

Bracknell is the setting for the show, as Pinkett is initially tasked with creating the slogan for the regenerated town.

Most of the show was filmed in Surrey but reports showed a Christmas tree was put up in Charles Square in August 2014 for the filming of one episode.

Eddie the Eagle - 2015

Taron Egerton stars in the biography of the notorious British ski-jumper Michael Edwards.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of the filming takes place in the snowy locations of Bavaria, Oberstdorf and Tirol, but Bracknell played a part in the silver-screen hit too.

Dry slope scenes were shot at the John Nike ski slope in 2015, and crews also used Pope’s Meadow car park for some shots.

Channel 4 reality show The Undateables filmed in Pope’s Meadow, children’s show Teletubbies was partially shot at Lily Hill Park and Midsummer Murders took to the former RAF Staff college to capture its police station scenes.

The Theory of Everything - 2013

This Stephen Hawking biopic starring Eddie Redmayne follows the relationship between the late physicist and his wife Jane Hawking.

According to IMDb, part of the film was shot in Swinley Forest when Jane takes the children camping.