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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Rebecca Day

Street in Heaton Moor transforms into TV set for Russell T Davies drama

Film crews were spotted in a quiet suburb of Stockport for a brand new star-studded Channel Four drama.

The residential street, Albert Road in Heaton Moor, was lined with classic cars as filming began for 1980s show The Boys. 

Photos, published by local estate agents Julian Wadden, showed camera men clustered under a cherry picker on Thursday.

On the company's blog, staff wrote that actors were spotted 'coming and going' throughout the shoot.

They said: "Currently filming in the heart of Heaton Moor for a brand new Channel 4 show starring Keeley Hawes, Neil Patrick Harris, Olly Alexander, Stephen Fry and more.

"The streets are lined with cars of the era that the show is based in (1980s) with actors coming and going throughout the two day shoot."

Filming ahead of Channel Four show The Boys (Julian Wadden)

Production staff have also been spotted filming the drama in the Northern Quarter and Salford.

The five-part drama follows the lives of three young men in London during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

Red, the production company behind the drama, said: "Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy…and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores.

"Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus starts as a rumour, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight."

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