Psychological crime drama Adolescence is a runaway hit for Netflix, racking up thousands of views in its first day on the streaming platform.
Starring Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Christine Tremarco and newcomer Owen Cooper, the four-part series tells the story of 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Cooper) who is accused of murdering a girl he goes to school with.
The show is shot with an impressive one-shot technique, fully immersing the viewer into the drama as the family’s world falls apart in the gripping whodunnit.
Adolescence was filmed in 2024 with most of the show being filmed on set – but some of the show was shot on location.
Adolescence was filmed at Production Park, a studio facility in South Kirkby, West Yorkshire.
The studio’s website says that the cast and crew spent six months on site, with filming taking place between July and September. The show was shot on the park’s newest stage, Studio 005, which is usually reserved for arena tour productions and has been used by Beyoncé, Pink and Coldplay previously.
Lee Brooks, CEO of Production Park said, ‘We were pleased to host the crew and cast from Adolescence through the summer months. Hosting such a large-scale, prestigious drama at Production Park shows how versatile we can be in supporting a wide range of clients, and we are very much open to any similar scale productions in the future.’
Mark Herbert, joint CEO of production company WARP Films, said, ‘The series posed a major challenge for us with the one-shot element so we needed a studio space that could match our technical needs but also provide a home for the crew and actors during the whole process. We loved working at Production Park and it was a great space to build our sets, and the day to day working atmosphere was fantastic, I will certainly film there again. And its mad it's in an old mining community not too far from where I grew up and just up the road from WARP Films HQ in Sheffield.’
The Miller family’s house is not a real house, and was a set built on Production Park.
Of course, a lot of the show is set in a school. These scenes were shot in a school in Sheffield, with local publications reporting on the show being filmed in the area last July.
Some of the show’s outdoor shots were filmed in South Elmsall, Wakefield, just a half an hour drive from Production Park. Other outdoor scenes were filmed in London.
All episodes of Adolescence are available to stream now on Netflix.
Samuel McManus is a senior content creator for Bauer Media, writing celebrity news and features across five of the company’s brands – heat, Closer, Grazia, Bella and Yours. Samuel has worked at Bauer Media since November 2024.