Amandaland – the hotly anticipated Motherland spinoff – is now streaming on BBC iPlayer. It’s already raking in audience acclaim and rave reviews, including high praise from The Guardian that it’s “a rare chance to laugh so hard you wee yourself”.
The production filmed on High Road Leytonstone where the crew turned the real-life kitchen showroom ADMO LTD into the fictional ‘KB&K Kitchens’. The location features in Episode 3, where Amanda gets herself a new job working at Kichen’s Kitchens and Bathrooms. Beady-eyed locals may also have spotted the YDL Food Centre in the background of an interior shot.
They filmed on location for four days in mid-October 2024 and were supported by the Council with traffic holds to achieve a couple of shots of a car pulling up to the shopfront as well as some dialogue scenes on the pavement outside.
There was also a pavement closure for the establishing shot, where the production dressed in a skydancer, which is apparently the proper name for what most of us know as “those inflatable wavy arm things”!
If you are interested in filming on High Road Leytonstone and the surrounding area, reach out to us with your brief via info@walthamforestfilmoffice.co.uk