{"id":687002,"date":"2026-07-12T03:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687002\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:01:12","slug":"bbc-shares-new-look-at-rickmansworth-filmed-ludwig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687002\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC shares new look at Rickmansworth-filmed Ludwig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  David Mitchell stars as an introverted writer of puzzle books who pretends to be his identical twin brother, a police officer, to help solve crimes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>John \u2018Ludwig\u2019 Taylor (David Mitchell), Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin) and Henry Betts-Taylor (Dylan Hughes) (Image: BBC\/Big Talk Studios\/lly Courtney)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Filming took place in Rickmansworth last year, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watfordobserver.co.uk\/news\/25432116.neighbours-told-filmed-high-street-shoot\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">High Street and The Drive used in August, September and November.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There were also unconfirmed reports of filming in Radlett and Chorleywood around the same time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Other series that filmed in the district in 2025 included Babies, California Avenue, Trigger Point, and Tommy and Tuppence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>David Mitchell in Ludwig. (Image: BBC \/ Big Talk Studios \/ Olly Courtney)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The show&#8217;s second series will premier on BBC Two next month, with an exact date unconfirmed. It has already been renewed for a third series.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Series two will see Mark Bonnar and Sian Clifford join the cast, with the plot set to see Mitchell&#8217;s character work to solve &#8220;impossible&#8221; crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Three Rivers District Council received a total of around \u00a34,230 from filming fees paid in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Mitchell stars as an introverted writer of puzzle books who pretends to be his identical twin brother,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}