Southport recently played host to Sky Atlantic’s Tin Star featuring Pulp Fiction star Tim Roth, and the town is set to appear in the series’ final episode, to be shown on Christmas Eve.
Tin Star is the story of Jim Worth (Tim Roth), a former London Metropolitan Police Service detective who becomes chief of police of a Canadian town in the Rocky Mountains.
The final series sees Worth and his family return to his native Liverpool.
Filming locations included Ainsdale Beach, Pleasureland, Silcock’s Funland and Southport Pier.
Executive producer Alison Jackson said: “We filmed in Liverpool city centre, but also on the outskirts, in Southport, New Brighton, Ormskirk… In Canada we often needed the landscapes to feel incredibly beautiful, warm and seductive, then for the light or camera lens to change and for it to feel quite vast and threatening, and for people to feel very tiny against it. We wanted to continue that theme in Liverpool so, for example, we filmed in St George’s Hall where Catherine gives a press conference, and it’s massive, a cavernous space.
Continuing Jackson said: “The scale of it hits you when you put people in it. We also filmed on New Brighton beach and the light there was incredible, so we could contrast the tiny Worth family against a vast expanse of sky.”
Tin Star, season 3 episode 6 will broadcast on Sky Atlantic on Christmas Eve.