Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd is back with a brand new, six-part drama series, Half Man, which is releasing new episodes weekly on BBC iPlayer.
The series follows Ruben and Niall, two young men who become brothers in all but blood when they are brought into each others lives by circumstance.
We chart the lives of these very different men over 30 years, leading up to an explosion of violence which takes place when Ruben attends Niall’s wedding.
Ruben is played by both Gadd and Stuart Campbell, while Niall is played by Jamie Bell and Mitchell Robertson. But where exactly is the series set, where was it filmed and what has Gadd said of the locations used for the drama?
Read on for everything you need to know about the filming locations used for Half Man.
Where was Half Man filmed?
Half Man was filmed in and around Glasgow, where the series is also set. Filming locations included the nearby town of Cumbernauld, where Young Niall star Mitchell Robertson is from.
Creator Richard Gadd, who was brought up in Wormit, Fife, went to Glasgow University, and so lived there for four years.
What has Richard Gadd said about filming in Glasgow
On filming in Glasgow, Gadd has said: “Not only do I have fond memories of my time at university in Glasgow for four years, but I think it’s an amazing cultural city with a huge personality. It’s the biggest city in Scotland and Glasgow has also undertaken a huge shift of its own over the decades to become one of the UK’s most formidable cultural hubs.
“It almost marries the change that you want to see in the characters across the show – Glasgow evolves and changes around these guys as they struggle to change themselves.
“I grew up in a town in Scotland outside of Dundee, about a mile over the water. The town had one shop – a corner shop – and it was an incredibly small one. I wouldn’t change it for the world now, but I felt like I needed to get out and escape when I was younger.
“That feeling is reflected in some of the earlier episodes where we see Niall and Ruben growing up in a smaller town outside the city. I think that adds a teenage hotbed of emotion and intensity to what the characters go through. I’ve loved working with an amazing cast and crew here and it has been such a brilliant backdrop for the show.”
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Meanwhile, at a Q&A for the series, executive producer Sophie Gardiner said of filming in the city: “Glasgow offers a massive range of locations. Straight up, when the see the whole six, there’s a real range – there’s the wedding, there’s all of it within the environs, brilliant crew, all that kind of thing.
“Possibly, for a show that has a lot of night exteriors, shooting in Glasgow in the summer is not great. It doesn’t get dark till 10, and it gets light at 3:30, so there was lots of early mornings in car parks. They were good car parks, it was great. Genuinely, it’s a really easy city to work in and actually to spend time in when you’re not from there. It’s a welcoming city.”
Half Man will arrive on BBC iPlayer at 6am on Friday 24 April.
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