New BBC crime drama to be filmed and set in Liverpool

Some of the city's iconic buildings often double for other locations in film and television

A new BBC drama mixing "power politics with the brutality of gang life" will be set and filmed in Liverpool, it has been announced.

The eight-part series, This City Is Ours, will be "an epic new crime drama", the corporation has said.

Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama, said: "This City Is Ours is character-driven crime drama that demands to be seen."

She added: "It's drama at its most tense."

The series has been created by writer Stephen Butchard, who is known for other pieces of work such as The Good Mothers, The Last Kingdom, and Five Daughters.

It will be made by the makers of The Crown, Left Bank Pictures, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

This City Is Ours will film in and around Liverpool, with additional filming in Spain, later this year.

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Mr Butchard, creator, lead writer and executive producer said he was excited to be working on the project.

He added: "Set in the very real, chilling, but mostly unseen universe of organised crime, This City Is Ours is a story of love, greed, ambition and power - and what we will do to seize and hold on to that power."

The filming of This City Is Ours in Liverpool comes after a string of Hollywood films and major television dramas have been shot in the city.

The interior of the Queensway Tunnel being used in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with the spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them using St Georges Hall and the Cunard Building as a backdrop for a 1920s New York.

The Crown and Peaky Blinders also made use of the city's streets and industrial buildings to double for locations such as Washington DC and Birmingham.