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Streaming giants spur film and TV shift to UK’s ‘golden triangle’

Surging demand for filming space has seen British film sets, crews and locations swamped this summer.

BROXBOURNE, United Kingdom: A world away from Hollywood, a quaint English county is turning into the epicentre of Britain’s streaming-fuelled film and TV production boom, with plans to build a studio on a crop field.

Plans for the vast Sunset Studios facility near Broxbourne in Hertfordshire are another sign of the production industry booming both in this stretch of southeast England and nationwide.

Rapid growth among content players like Netflix, alongside surging demand for filming space due to pandemic-related delays, has seen British film sets, crews and locations swamped this summer — with Hertfordshire increasingly a hub, industry figures say.

This quintessentially English county of…

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