Style Birmingham

Not much gets past us here at Style Birmingham HQ … we hear on the grapevine that this week, classy Clements & Church is being transformed into a set for stylish BBC series Hustle.

The programme, starring Adrian Lester, Robert Vaughan and the gorgeous Jaime Murray, is currently being filmed in and around the city and the Church Street shop is one of the locations for the dapper drama.

Following stints filming in LA and Vegas, the relocation of the Hustle team to Birmingham is set to bring an estimated £1.2 million into the regional economy and provide jobs for local crew.

A spokesman for Screen WM, which worked to bring Hustle to Birmingham, providing locations and funding, said: “This is a major coup for the city. It positions the West Midlands as an important hub for UK drama production. Producers are attracted here on the basis of the region’s diverse locations, excellent facilities and experienced crew.”

Hustle is made by production company Kudos. Managing director Simon Crawford Collins added: “Birmingham is a transformed city whose cool new locations have rarely been used for TV dramas and we hope it will become a hub for Kudos’s output for many years to come.”

So keep you eye on the small screen in 2010 when the six-part series will be broadcast.