This Is The Real Cornish Town In ITV’s Playing Nice

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This new thriller begins tonight

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A new four-part thriller kicks off on ITV1 tonight – featuring the windswept British coast. But where was Playing Nice filmed? We’ve got the details.

Miles Lamber [James McArdle] and Pete Riley [James Norton] in Playing Nice. (Rabbit Track/ITV)

Where Was Playing Nice Filmed?

Playing Nice was filmed in Cornwall, mainly in Newquay, in autumn 2023. ‘We all moved our lives down to Cornwall for three months,’ star Niamh Algar, who plays Maddie, tells Country & Town House. ‘We got down there at the start of October. The first weekend we were down there, James McArdle [who plays Miles] and James Norton [who plays Pete] had a surf lesson. Production had them do it because there was a surfing scene in [the series]. And the guys were like, “Come on, girls, we’ll all get involved”. From that weekend onwards, we would go surfing every weekend, and go for pints in the local pub after.’

These surfing scenes were filmed on Mawgan Porth beach, approximately four miles north of Newquay on the Atlantic coast. It’s an incredibly beautiful spot, attracting a number of celebrities to snap up land in the area and build mansions – reportedly including Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Jason Statham and Imogen Stubbs.

‘In Cornwall and Newquay in the offseason, all the tourists have left and it’s just the locals, so it really felt like we got a real sense of the innate community,’ Niamh adds on filming Playing Nice in the area. ‘It’s so surf driven, so outdoors driven. I’m obsessed with the outdoors – I grew up in the country and surrounded by lakes – so I was just in heaven down there.’