TV documentary shows everyday life in the dales (From The Northern Echo)

TV documentary shows everyday life in the dales

8:40am Tuesday 23rd March 2010 in

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FILMING is due to start in the summer on a television documentary series looking at life in the Yorkshire Dales.

A production company plans to post crews in the national park to film Dales’ residents going about their everyday business.

Details were announced yesterday at the Y10 conference in Harrogate, organised by tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire.

The series, likely to be screened next spring, follows on from the successful show, The Lakes, which looked at life in the Lake District.

Tourism bosses hope the show will give the area a financial boost by attracting thousands of visitors.

Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive Gary Verity hopes it will have a similar impact as vet series All Creatures Great and Small, which helped endear the dales to a generation of television viewers in the Seventies and Eighties.

He said: “The Lakes attracted average audiences of 4.3 million and we’re hoping for even more.”

The series was one of several announcements which Welcome to Yorkshire hopes will raise the profile of the region around the world.

The agency also unveiled plans to sponsor television programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

A Yorkshire garden will be entered at the Chelsea Flower Show based on the theme of Yorkshire rhubarb crumble and custard.

Welcome to Yorkshire also plans a stage production of The Railway Children – first shown at the National Railway Museum, in York – at Waterloo Station, in London.

Other announcements included Yorkshire-branded trains in Cumbria and Lancashire, a move to promote golf breaks in Yorkshire and funding for tourism development projects.

A Yorkshire tourism pass will be launched this year giving free entry to 75 attractions. Tourism chiefs claim it is the only pass of its kind outside of Hawaii.

Mr Verity said: “We want people to come to Yorkshire, stay in Yorkshire and, most of all, spend their money in Yorkshire.

“Tourism is vitally important to the region’s economy and with over a quarter of a million people working in the tourism sector we are determined to do all we can to secure and, hopefully, create more jobs.”

Welcome to Yorkshire says 209 million people visit Yorkshire every year, bringing in £6.5m to the region’s economy.