Drama Series Production

Here is how this works in practice. We give full production support for drama series in Malta, setting up the sustained operation episodic television demands — crew assembly across each department, gear sourcing, location logistics and the daily scheduling that keeps a multi-month shoot on track. Our producers manage block-shooting schedules, recurring location access, set builds and the scene matching of standing crews across a season.

Here is the short of it. Malta's compact scale is a structural advantage for series production: a single base can reach medieval streets, vast Knights' fortifications, a Mediterranean port and open sea, so an episode that ranges widely in story can be captured without the unit moves that erode episodic budgets elsewhere. We set up Malta Film Commission liaison — a state one-stop-shop for permits, police, Transport Malta and Heritage Malta — and guide shoots through the cash rebates of up to 40% on eligible expenditure, paid post-prod. EU gear moves without carnets. We supplement crew and pro gear from Sicily, Italy or the UK as a season scales.

Here is the breakdown. Malta has tested itself as a drama-series location at the highest level. Mdina, the medieval 'Silent City' and a former capital, served as King's Landing in Game of Thrones season 1, while Fort Ricasoli — the largest of the Knights' forts — has stood in for ancient Rome and the Red Keep, and hosted the Colosseum set built for Gladiator II.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The islands give honey-coloured limestone streetscapes in Valletta, a UNESCO baroque capital built after the Great Siege of 1565, the Three Cities around the Grand Harbour, Gozo's countryside and Malta Film Studios at Kalkara with its horizon water tank. The Mediterranean climate delivers around 300 days of sunshine a year and long, dependable shooting seasons that protect demanding series schedules. English is an official language alongside Maltese and universally spoken, so cast contracts, crew briefings and production forms run without friction across a long-form shoot, and Malta's Eurozone, Schengen status keeps global cast travel and budget work straightforward.