BBC Hit Drama ‘Happy Valley’ Has Tourists Flocking To Quiet Yorkshire Town
deadline.comAs millions of viewers in the UK prepare to sit down on Sunday evening for the grand finale – and last ever episode – of hit crime drama Happy Valley, one small town will have a special reason to toast the success of this massively popular and critically acclaimed show.
With just 4,500 residents, Hebden Bridge is a pretty market town in West Yorkshire, long known for embracing alternative lifestyles and providing a sanctuary for those wanting to get off the beaten track.
But in recent years, it has become best known as the location for many of the scenes shot in hit crime drama Happy Valley, the BAFTA-winning show written by Sally Wainwright and starring Sarah Lancashire as the brow-beaten but never defeated Sergeant Catherine Cawood.
The show began in 2014, but fans have had to wait seven long years for the third and final series, which has lived up to all hopes and expectations, with UK fans now waiting with bated breath for Cawood’s final showdown with her nemesis and father of her grandson, psychopath and fugitive from justice, Tommy Lee Royce.
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