Hollywood eat your heart out. The place to make movies is no longer sunshine-blessed Los Angeles but drizzly old England. According to Lambert Smith Hampton, a property consultancy specialising in film and TV studios, film and TV production was the fastest growing sector of the UK economy in the five years to 2019. 

The pandemic temporarily stopped film production in 2020 but this has since taken off again, a trend that is fueling an insatiable demand for new production facilities. In 2021 there were 4,200,000ft² of dedicated film and TV studios in the UK with another 1,200,000ft² housed in repurposed space. 

There are 5,300,000ft² of film and TV studio space in Los Angeles which means that, with 1,500,000ft² of oven-ready production space in the pipeline, the UK, nicknamed “Brollywood”, is shortly set to trounce Hollywood as the place to make films.