LGBTQ+ Sport
More than 9,500 athletes from over 80 countries are preparing to descend on Valencia as the city hosts Gay Games XII, one of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ sporting and cultural events. Running from 27 June to 4 July 2026, the Games will transform Spain’s third largest city
SOAP TOURS
Manchester is one of the UK’s most famous cities, known for industry, music, football, television, politics, nightlife, universities, shopping and attitude. It is not a soft city or a quiet one. Manchester has built much of its modern identity on reinvention, confidence and cultural impact. For SoaplandTV readers, Manchester
SOAP TOURS
Leeds is one of the North’s biggest and most important cities, but it often feels more understated than Manchester or Liverpool. That is part of its character. Leeds is confident without needing to perform too much. It is a city of grand arcades, busy shopping streets, universities, nightlife, sport,
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Liverpool is one of the UK’s most recognisable city break destinations, a place where music, football, maritime history, television, humour and local pride all sit side by side. It is a city with a huge personality, shaped by the River Mersey, the docks, immigration, working class culture, creativity and
Coronation Street
Visiting the Coronation Street set is one of those moments that feels a bit unreal when you first step onto the cobbles. For any Corrie viewer, the chance to stand on Coronation Street, look across at The Rovers Return and spot the places usually seen on screen is a proper
FILMING LOCATIONS
Home and Away is famous for its Palm Beach exterior scenes, but the soap also depends on studio production. The beach gives Summer Bay its outdoor identity, while interior scenes are filmed separately at Seven’s Sydney studio facilities. That split is standard for television drama. Outdoor scenes at Palm
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Home and Away is most closely associated with Palm Beach, but the wider Northern Beaches area also helps frame the world of Summer Bay. The soap’s fictional setting is a coastal town in New South Wales, and the surrounding Sydney coastline gives the production a strong real world landscape.
FILMING LOCATIONS
Barrenjoey Headland is one of the most recognisable landmarks connected to Home and Away. Rising above Palm Beach, it gives Summer Bay its dramatic coastal backdrop and helps make the fictional town feel instantly familiar. The headland sits at the northern end of Palm Beach, with Barrenjoey Lighthouse standing above
FILMING LOCATIONS
Palm Beach in Sydney’s Northern Beaches is one of the most recognisable soap locations in the world. For Home and Away viewers, it is better known as Summer Bay, the fictional coastal town where the Seven Network drama has been set since it began in 1988. Palm Beach has
FILMING LOCATIONS
Hollyoaks is not only a fictional village on screen. It is also part of a wider Merseyside production story. The programme is made by Lime Pictures, whose Liverpool base has supported the soap since it launched in 1995. Lime Pictures is based at Campus Manor on Childwall Abbey Road in
FILMING LOCATIONS
Hollyoaks is mainly produced at Lime Pictures in Childwall, Liverpool. The soap is set near Chester, but its production base places it firmly within the Liverpool City Region screen industry. That Liverpool connection is important because Hollyoaks is part of a wider production landscape. The city has a long history
FILMING LOCATIONS
Hollyoaks is strongly connected to Childwall because that is where Lime Pictures has its Liverpool production base. Although the soap is set in a fictional village near Chester, its real working life is rooted in south Liverpool and the wider North West. The main production home for Hollyoaks is Lime