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TV & film production

The location isperfect. Nothingnear it is.

Cast and crew housed within reach of the unit base — for shoots in places where the nearest hotel has fourteen rooms and a wedding on Saturday.

TieredCast and crew
RuralNot just cities
Per productionCost coded
FlexibleSchedules move
Unit accommodationPinewood · 8 weeks
Cast beds6
Crew beds42
Bed-nights0
What movedNothing yet. Toggle a scenario — the accommodation follows the schedule.

Illustration — a sample eight-week block with two tiers

Production reality

Nobody books accommodation for the schedule you were given.

Dates move, blocks extend, a cast member arrives early and the weather cover day becomes three. Accommodation has to move with it.

Tiers
Cast and crew, handled differently

Different standards, different privacy expectations and different budgets, sourced from one team without two separate conversations.

Volume
Whole units, not stray rooms

Forty to a hundred people within a sensible radius of the unit base, including locations where the local bed stock simply isn't there.

Schedule
Dates move and we move with them

Extensions, early arrivals and cancelled blocks handled without renegotiating the whole booking.

Long shoots
Self-catering beats a hotel by week three

A kitchen and a living room matter on a sixteen-week block, and the nightly cost is lower.

Budget
Coded to the production

One invoice against the production code, split by department if the accountant needs it that way.

Discretion
No names on any list

Cast placements handled quietly, with no property or occupant details shared outside the booking team.

Radius from the unit base

Fourteen rooms, a wedding on Saturday, and forty crew arriving Monday.

The local hotel is night one, booked through Grhum Travel Solutions. By week two the unit is in serviced houses and apartments within a drive of the base — the space and flexibility a long block needs — with the hotel kept for late arrivals.

Cast tierSelf-contained

Houses and larger apartments, closest to base, no shared walls with crew, names held off every list.

HoD tierApartments

One and two beds within a short drive, kitchens for the long block, parking for the department vehicle.

Crew tierShared houses & aparthotel

Multi-bed houses and aparthotel rooms grouped by department, laundry and early breakfast sorted.

Storage

Kit and set dressing

Partner storage near the unit base for the things that can't live in a rented house.

Removals

Between locations

Moving a unit from one block to the next without four separate suppliers.

Extended stays

Returning series

Properties held or re-contracted between series so you're not starting the search from nothing each year.

Sustainability

Reporting on request

Accommodation data in a form that fits your production's carbon reporting.

Production coordinators

Send us the schedule.

Unit base postcode, block dates, cast and crew headcount by tier. We come back with a housed unit and one cost code.

Send a schedule

Out of hours · guest support

Fires and floods don't wait for Monday.

Emergency decant and same-night placements go straight to the duty team.

guestsupport@grhum.co.uk

Everywhere we put people

64 locations. Five nations. One phone call.