Starring Nick Frost and Jordan Gray, the six-part series, which is set in a supermarket and shot in Hartlepool, is due to be screened on ITVX during 2025.
Here then are just 18 TV shows or movies made in Hartlepool and East Durham over the decades. With advance apologies for a couple of additional questionable inclusions, how many of this little lot have you watched? Have we also missed any more out? Email [email protected].

21. And here's two which weren't filmed here
Alien 3's landscape scenes were filmed up the road at Dawdon, not Blackhall as is widely believed, while Canoe Man, the 2010 tale about John Darwin, was filmed by the BBC in Southwold, Suffolk. Photo: Other 3rd Party