The Bottle Yard Studios is a British film and television production studio facility in

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. It is the largest dedicated production space in the West of England.

History

The studios are located on Whitchurch Lane, approximately 4 miles south of

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. In 2010, the site stood unused after operating for more than 50 years as a former

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and bottling plant. At one time it had housed the full

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for Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry, run by

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. The studios opened in 2010 as a partnership initiative with

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which owns the studios, transforming the disused industrial space into a busy creative hub for film and TV production. In its first year, the studios were estimated to have brought in £8 million in investment into the city of Bristol. In 2021, it was credited with helping achieve about a tripling of drama production in Bristol since 2010. The

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has invested £11.3 million to open three more stages in 2022, increasing the number of stages to eight.

Productions

* ''

8 Minutes Idle 8 Minutes Idle is an independent British film released in 2014 based on the book ''Eight Minutes Idle'' by Matt Thorne. It is billed as an offbeat Comedy drama where a young man is thrown out of his home and sleeps in the office of his call-centr ...

'' (2012) * '' The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box'' (2014) * ''

Alex Rider ''Alex Rider'' is a series of spy novels written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The novels revolve around a teenage spy named Alex Rider and is primarily aimed towards young adults. The series currently comprises thirteen novels, as well ...

'' (2023–) * ''

Am I Being Unreasonable? ''Am I Being Unreasonable?'' is a 6-part British comedy-thriller series produced by Boffola Pictures and Lookout Point and written by, and starring, Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli. The series was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom fro ...

'' (2022–) * ''Andy's Aquatic Adventures'' (2020–) * ''Andy’s Global Adventures'' (2023–) * ''Andy's Prehistoric Adventures'' (2016) * ''Andy's Safari Adventures'' (2018–19) * ''

Art Ninja ''Art Ninja'' is a British children's television art-sitcom hybrid hosted by Ricky Martin. The show is produced by Dot to Dot Productions for CBBC and began on 17 January 2015. The series follows presenter Ricky and his life where he makes arts ...

'' (2019) * ''

The Beaker Girls ''The Beaker Girls'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British children's television series, children's television series that premiered on CBBC (TV channel), CBBC and BBC iPlayer on 13 December 2021. The series follows on from the events ...

'' (2021) * ''

Becoming Elizabeth ''Becoming Elizabeth'' is a Historical fiction, historical Drama (film and television), drama series, created by Anya Reiss, that follows the younger years of Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth I. It premiered on Starz on June 12, 2022. Plot The seri ...

'' (2022–) * ''

Broadchurch ''Broadchurch'' is a British crime drama television series broadcast on ITV for three series between 2013 and 2017. It was created by Chris Chibnall, who acted as an executive producer and wrote all 24 episodes and produced by Kudos in assoc ...

'' (2017) * ''

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'' (2011) * ''

Cheap Cheap Cheap ''Cheap Cheap Cheap'' was a British television game show produced by Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4, presented and created by Noel Edmonds. Billed as "a game show that thinks it's a sitcom", the show takes place in a fictional general store ...

'' (2017) * ''

Chloe Chloe (; ), also spelled Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé, is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek. The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from the Proto-Indo-European root ', which relates to the colors yellow and green. T ...

'' (2022) * ''

Crazyhead Crazyhead are an English garage punk band from Leicester, England. Though lumped in with the largely media-created grebo scene, they were more influenced by the garage rock of the late 1960s, as well as bands like The Ramones, The Stooges and ...

'' (2016) * ''

The Crystal Maze ''The Crystal Maze'' is a British game show devised by Jacques Antoine, based upon his format for the French game show '' Fort Boyard'', and produced for Channel 4. The programme focuses on teams of contestants, a mixed group of men and women, ...

'' (2017–20) * ''Deadly Dinosaurs'' (2018) * ''

Deal or No Deal ''Deal or No Deal'' is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was the Dutch ''Miljoenenjacht (Netherlands), Miljoenenjacht'' (''Hunt/Chase for Millions''). The centerpiece of this f ...

'' (2013–16) * ''Dino Club'' (2023–) * ''

Dirk Gently Dirk Gently (born Svlad Cjelli, also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by English writer Douglas Adams and featured in the books ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'', ''The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul'' and ''The ...

'' (2010–12) * '' Dodger'' (2023–) * ''

Eric, Ernie and Me ''Eric, Ernie and Me'' is a 2017 television film based on the relationship between British television double-act Morecambe and Wise and their writer Eddie Braben. It starred Stephen Tompkinson as Eddie Braben, Mark Bonnar as Eric Morecambe and ...

'' (2017) * ''Excluded'' (2010) * '' The Fear'' (2012) * '' The Festival'' (2018) * ''

Five Daughters ''Five Daughters'' is a British television drama miniseries starring Ian Hart, Sarah Lancashire, Jaime Winstone and Juliet Aubrey. Set in 2006, it is about the five victims of the Ipswich serial murders and how the crime affected their families ...

'' (2010) * '' The Flatshare'' (2023–) * '' Fortitude'' (2018) * ''

Galavant ''Galavant'' is an American musical fantasy comedy television series, created and written by Dan Fogelman, with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. Fogelman, Menken and Slater also serve as executive producers alongside Chris Koch ...

'' (2015–16) * '' The Girl Before'' (2021) * '' Golden Years'' (2016) * ''

Hellboy Hellboy is a fictional superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character first appeared in ''San Diego Comic-Con Comics'' #2 (August 1993), and has since appeared in various eponymous miniseries, one-shots and intercompany crossovers ...

'' (2019) * ''

Hit the Road Jack "Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues singer Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles. The song was a US number 1 hit in 1961, and won a Grammy award for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording, becoming one of Charles' signat ...

'' (2012) * ''

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'' (2022–) * '' Ill Behaviour'' (2017) * ''

In the Dark Half ''In the Dark Half'' is a 2011 British drama film directed by Alastair Siddons and starring Tony Curran, Lyndsey Marshal, and Jessica Barden. Barden plays a teenaged girl who becomes obsessed with her neighbour, played by Curran, and his grief ...

'' (2012) * ''

Inside Men ''Inside Men'' is a British television drama series, consisting of four episodes, transmitted from 2 to 23 February 2012 on BBC One. The series was filmed in Bristol between June and August 2011, with filming taking place over a 10-week perio ...

'' (2012) * '' The Killing Kind'' (2024–) * '' The Last Bus'' (2022) * '' The Living and the Dead'' (2016) * '' The Long Call'' (2021–) * ''

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies ''The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies'' is a 2014 British television film. It tells the real-life story of retired schoolteacher Christopher Jefferies, who was questioned by police as a suspect in the murder of Joanna Yeates. He was vilifi ...

'' (2014) * ''The Makery'' (2022–) * ''

McDonald & Dodds ''McDonald & Dodds'' is a British television crime drama series, based in the English city of Bath, that stars Tala Gouveia and Jason Watkins as mismatched detectives, DCI Lauren McDonald & DS Dodds. Created and principally written by screenwri ...

'' (2020–) * '' The Mimic'' (2014) * ''

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'' (2014) * '' The Outlaws'' (2021–) * ''

The Pale Horse ''The Pale Horse'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961,Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. ''Collins Crime Club – A checklist of ...

'' (2020) * ''

Poldark ''Poldark'' is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002. The first novel, '' Ross Poldark'', was named for the protagonist of the series. The novel series was adapted twice fo ...

'' (2015–19) * '' Public Enemies'' (2012) * ''

The Pursuit of Love ''The Pursuit of Love'' is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1945. It is the first in a trilogy about an upper-class English family in the interwar period focusing on the romantic life of Linda Radlett, as narrated by her cousin, Fa ...

'' (2021) * ''

Rain Dogs ''Rain Dogs'' is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York City, ''Rain Dogs'' is generally considered the middle ...

'' (2023–) * ''

The Salisbury Poisonings ''The Salisbury Poisonings'' is a fact-based television drama, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and Annabel Scholey which portrays the 2018 Novichok poisonings and decontamination crisis in Salisbury, England, and the subsequent Amesbury ...

'' (2020) * '' Sandition'' (2019–) * '' Sherlock: The Abominable Bride'' (2016) * ''

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'' (2021) * ''

The Spanish Princess ''The Spanish Princess'' is a historical drama television limited series developed by Emma Frost and Matthew Graham for Starz. Based on the novels ''The Constant Princess'' (2005) and ''The King's Curse'' (2014) by Philippa Gregory, it is a seque ...

'' (2019–20) * '' Three Girls'' (2017) * '' Tipping Point'' (2018–) * ''

The Trial of Christine Keeler ''The Trial of Christine Keeler'' is a British television series based on the chain of events surrounding the Profumo affair in the 1960s. The six-part series premiered on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 29 December 2019. The series was adapte ...

'' (2019–20) * ''

Trollied ''Trollied'' is a British sitcom about employees in a fictional supermarket named "Valco", which debuted on Sky One on 4 August 2011 and ended on 23 December 2018. The series was filmed in a purpose-built replica supermarket in the Bottle Yard ...

'' (2011–18) * ''

The White Princess ''The White Princess'' is a 2013 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series '' The Cousins' War''. It is the story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville, and later wife of Henry VII and ...

'' (2017) * ''

Wolf Hall ''Wolf Hall'' is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, ''Wolf Hall'' is a symp ...

'' (2015)"Damian Lewis to film new BBC drama Wolf Hall in Bristol, Somerset and Wiltshire"
''

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'', 9 May 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

References

External links

"Official site"

"Filming in Bristol"
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''. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
"The Bottle Yard"
''Bristol Film Office''. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

''Televisual''. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
"The Bottle Yard Studios – from disused warehouses to Disney"
''Seenit'', 9 July 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
"The Bottle Yard Studios – Bristol’s international hub of film and TV production"
''Bristol Culture'', 31 July 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

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'', 6 June 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014. * Ribbeck, Mike
"Profile: The Hollywood of Hengrove – Bristol's Bottle Yard Studio"
''South West Business'', 6 June 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bottle Yard Studios Television production companies of the United Kingdom British film studios Television studios in England Entertainment companies established in 2010 British companies established in 2010 2010 establishments in England