Liverpool-based production The Irregulars has topped the Netflix charts in its premiere week of worldwide streaming.
The highly anticipated supernatural Sherlockian spin-off is set in Victorian London, but the majority of filming took place across the Liverpool City Region.
Liverpool’s picturesque Georgian Quarter has been immortalised as the iconic 221B Baker Street, with Croxteth Hall, St George’s Hall, Liverpool Town Hall, Sefton Park, Birkenhead Park and Formby Beach amongst the plethora of the city region’s locations featured.
The production also made use of a large industrial estate in North Liverpool to build and film their interior sets.
The Irregulars marks the latest high-end production to film in Liverpool as Victorian London, following productions such as Searchlight’s Tolkien, Netflix’s The English Game and BBC’s The War Of The Worlds.
The fresh adaptation is the latest in a long line of Arthur Conan Doyle inspired productions to film in the region, having been the backdrop for the very first on-screen Sherlock adaptation, 1914’s silent film A Study in Scarlet, as well as Granada’s 1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and more recently Warner Bros’ 2009 feature film Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr.
As well as the city’s locations making a star turn, 18-year-old Liverpudlian Darci Shaw landed one of the leading roles in the ensemble cast, following her feature film debut as a young Judy Garland in the Oscar-winning biopic Judy.
The Irregulars has established a pivotal partnership between Netflix, Drama Republic, Liverpool Film Office and media, music and performing arts institute LMA for five new entrants, who worked in various departments of production, gaining essential behind-the-scenes experience and are all now working on other productions in the region.
The pilot scheme is part of the Liverpool Film Office’s LCR Screen Workforce Strategy to develop an industry-led talent development pipeline, and both Liverpool Film Office and LMA are continuing partnerships with Netflix respectively.
The Irregulars is available to stream exclusively on Netflix now.
The Irregulars film a scene in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter © Netflix
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