Vera 2020 location: Where is Vera filmed? Where is Vera season 10 set?
ITV detective drama Vera is coming back to screens this evening (Sunday, January 12) at 8pm. This year Vera Stanhope (played by Brenda Blethyn) and her team will face even more grisly murders which she will be trying to crack. There are a total of four new two-hour films for fans to sink their teeth as the show enters its 10th year.
Where is Vera 2020 set?
Vera returns to its setting of the northeast of England with episodes set in and around the region.
The tenacious detective will be heading up a team at Northumberland and City Police, which includes DS Aiden Healy (Kenny Doughty), DC Kenny Lockhart (Jon Morrison), DC Jacqueline “Jac” Williams (Ibinabo Jack), DC Mark Edwards (Riley Jones) and pathologist Dr. Malcolm Donahue (Paul Kaye).
This year there will be a number of settings including a salmon fishing farm and a greyhound stadium which gives a sense of the breadth of diverse stories.
One key setting is Vera’s home, which is located on Holy Island on Lindisfarne in Northumberland.
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Where is Vera 2020 filmed?
Location has always been key to Vera and runs in the DNA of the drama with its strong northern identity.
Season 10 was filmed from April to October 2019 with the cast and crew filming for up to 11 hours.
Episode one is called Blood Will Tell and some of the scenes were filmed at the Tan Hill Inn at Swaledale in North Yorkshire, which is the highest pub in Britain
While episode two titled Parent Not Expected saw the crew shooting in Burnmouth in the Scottish Borders.
Other locations for the episode included Alnwick, Whitley Bay and the Woodhorn Museum near Ashington.
Due to the adverse weather conditions and constant rain, the shoot kept changing locations and required a degree of logical improvisation.
The third instalment Dirty focuses on a commercial cleaning company and the crew went to the former Brett Oils factory on the banks of the River Tyne in Gateshead to film scenes.
Dirty was also shot opposite the Copthorne Hotel in Newcastle.
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The exterior of Vera’s home is filmed on Holy Island but the interior has been recreated in a studio at the show’s base in Wallsend.
Season 10’s finale and episode four is called The Escape Ten with many scenes filmed at the Sunderland Greyhound Stadium.
Lead star Blethyn revealed: “The studio interior is an exact replica of what it’s really like on Lindisfarne.
“I think it might be a foot wider, to allow for camera movement.
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“Sometimes when I’m on that set I forget I’m not actually in Vera’s house. It’s so brilliantly reproduced. Our art department are second to none.”
The show has built up a fanbase across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, along with having a positive impact on tourism in the area
In 2019, Vera won there Judges Award at the RTS North East and Border Awards ‘Judges Award’ for its outstanding contribution to the region.
Vera 2020 airs on ITV tonight at 8pm
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