A cloak of secrecy has been thrown around the filming in Keswick of a new Netflix series being made by an independent Manchester-based production company.
The Keswick Reminder has been thwarted in its attempts to find out just what is being filmed by Quay St Productions which was set up in 2021 to “make contemporary, provocative, entertaining, and engaging drama for UK and global audiences”.
Filming has taken place at Manesty Park, on the shores of Derwentwater and along the A66. It follows the arrival last week of a number of production vehicles and a catering van at the Rawnsley Centre car park next to the Derwent Pencil Museum.
The production company’s location manager Joel Sheldrake said that he was “not allowed to say” what the name of the production was although he said that Keswick was one of many locations in the north-west where filming has been taking place.
Keswick Ministries and Keswick Town Council were also unable to throw any light on what was being filmed. A spokesperson from the town council said the production company had been in touch seeking permission to park their lorries on the Crosthwaite Road car park but consent had not been granted.
Signposts with the initials ‘M Y’ printed on were attached to lamp-posts leading up to the area where the production vehicles were set up.
It is believed that they could be filming a new mystery thriller called Missing You from the book by best-selling author Harlan Coben through his ongoing creative partnership with Netflix. According to the Quay St Productions website filming for the series began in the spring.
Publicity for the Netflix adaptation of Missing You says that it is “an edge-of-your-seat mystery thriller that’s full of twists and turns”.
It follows Kat Donovan, a police detective whose fiancé Josh suddenly vanishes without a trace. However, when he randomly pops up a decade later, unpicking the mystery of his disappearance and sudden re-appearance drags Donovan into a case with unlikely links to her own history. Missing You has an all-star cast including Jessica Plummer, Sir Lenny Henry, Ashley Walters, James Nesbitt and Richard Armitage.
According to the show’s official synopsis: “Josh’s reappearance will force [Kat] to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.”
A spokesperson for the production company said: “It’s just too early to confirm anything. It’s in production but it’s something that is going out way down the line.”
