Wicklow wine seller seeks compensation for ‘lost profit' during filming
The owner of a business in the quaint Wicklow village of Enniskerry – which has been used as a location for film shoots as far back as Captain Lightfoot, starring Rock Hudson in 1955, to the more recent production of Disenchanted – has complained that he has not been sufficiently compensated following a shoot for a new series, which took place over a week in April.
The producers of 12 Dates of Christmas, which stars Mae Whitman, Mary McDonnell and Jane Seymour in a six-episode limited series in the works for Hallmark, were granted a licence by Wicklow County Council to film in Enniskerry from Monday, April 7 to Friday, April 11.
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