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Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Where was Silo Season 3 filmed? All locations from Rebecca Ferguson's dystopian series
Silo has been renewed for a third season by AppleTV+. The gripping sci-fi drama will continue the story of humanity's last remnants living underground in a post-apocalyptic world. The series, based on Hugh Howey's bestselling trilogy (Wool, Shift, and Dust), has captivated the audience with its tense atmosphere and striking visuals. Here's a look at the real-world locations where Silo Season 3 is being brought to life. Silo's filming locations include Hoddesdon Studios and Hertford County Hall, and more, with seasons 3 and 4 shot concurrently.(@SiloSeries/X) Also Read: Silo Season 3 budget: How much each episode of sci-fi show costs Apple TV+ Silo Season 3 filming locations revealed Hoddesdon Studios According to IMDB, showrunner Graham Yost told Empire, 'We'll be shooting all of 2025 into early 2026,' from the set of Silo at Hoddesdon Studios in Hertfordshire in UK. Fidens Studio has converted this former 140,000 sq ft cold storage unit into a full-scale studio facility. With the addition of 60,000 sq ft for prop stores, workshops, production offices, and a canteen, the site now offers over 200,000 sq ft of production space, according to the British Film Commission. OMA One and Oma X Film Studios In addition to the Hoddesdon Studios, Silo Season 3 is also filmed at OMA One and Oma X Film Studios, which are located in Enfield. Hertford County Hall Hertford County Hall is owned by Hertfordshire County Council and is a popular location for filming due to 'the historic and aesthetically pleasing nature of its architecture and surroundings,' as reported by the BBC. The dystopian drama series starring Tim Robbins and Rebecca Ferguson filmed scenes at the municipal building back in October. Also Read: Silo Season 3: Cast, where to watch and everything we know so far According to TechRadar, Silo Season 3 and Season 4 are being filmed concurrently as both scripts are completed. The premiere date for teh dystopian series' third installment is yet to be announced.
Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Silo Season 3 budget: How much each episode of sci-fi show costs Apple TV+
Silo, starring Rebecca Ferguson, has earned a devoted fan following over the years. The Apple TV+ show is based on Hugh Howey's sci-fi trilogy and explores a world where humanity lives closeted in silos, unable to comprehend why the world outside is poisoned. Silo Season 3 has finished shooting, and the show has also been renewed for a fourth and final installment. Silo Season 3 will see Rebecca Ferguson reprise her role as Juliette Nichols.(X/@AppleTV) While Silo has been receiving praise for its plot and performances, its cost has become another talking point. According to a Fandomwire report, Apple TV+'s shows like Foundation, Silo, and Severance cost a lot to produce, adding that the tech giant is losing $1 billion each year in content production. Apple TV+'s production woes Since its launch in 2019, the streaming service has been trying to catch up to giants like Prime Video and Netflix. However, Apple TV+ only has 45 million subscribers compared to Netflix's over 260 million. The company's strategy of big-budget drama has not helped stem its losses. According to a Forbes report in 2024, Severance Season 2 cost $20 million per episode, making its budget $200 million. Silo Season 3 budget and cost per episode While Apple TV+ has not officially confirmed the budget of Silo, a Forbes report stated that it has the look and feel of a $200 million project greenlit by Prime Video, but costs far less. The star-studded cast and high-end VFX of the show mean that its budget, while not public, is still significant. As for the cost per episode, there is no reliable estimate available for Silo Season 3. Also read: Silo Season 3: Cast, where to watch and everything we know so far What is Apple TV+ doing to reduce losses? The company is still approving big-budget productions, but is becoming more selective about its investments. It has also slashed its content budget from $5 billion to $4.5 billion, as per Fandom Wire. What to expect from Silo Season 3? The show will focus on why the silos were originally built. Marking a departure from the earlier installments, Silo Season 3 will have parts shot in daylight. Not just that, Succession alum Ashley Zukerman and Game of Thrones actor Jessica Henwick will join Silo Season 3 as regulars, People reported. An official release date for Silo's third season has not been announced yet. FAQs: 1. What is the budget of Silo Season 3? There is no information available publicly on the show's production budget. 2. Where can I watch Silo? Seasons 1 and 2 are available on Apple TV+. 3. Who is part of Silo Season 3? Silo Season 3 stars Rebecca Ferguson, Steve Zahn, Clare Perkins, Chinaza Uche and Avi Nash, among others.
Mint
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Silo Season 3: Cast, plot, new faces, and everything to know about Apple TV+'s dystopian epic
Apple TV+ has officially renewed its hit sci-fi series 'Silo' for a third season, continuing the story based on Hugh Howey's dystopian trilogy 'Wool, Shift, and Dust'. The critically acclaimed series explores the lives of 10,000 survivors living deep underground in a silo, cut off from a toxic world above and governed by strict rules and deadly secrets. At the centre of the mystery is Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson), an engineer determined to uncover the truth behind a murder and the origins of their confined society. Season 3 will go back in time, drawing from Howey's second novel, Shift, to explore the events that led to the construction of the silo system. 'We get into the origin story [of the Pez dispenser], but we're also deep into our silo world,' showrunner Graham Yost told TIME in January 2025. 'There'll also be more to learn about the dirty bomb." Yost added in a December 2024 press release, 'It has been a richly rewarding experience to adapt Hugh's epic novels with our partners at Apple, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this complete story to the screen over the course of four seasons.' While no official release date has been announced, Apple confirmed on X that filming for season 3 wrapped in May 2025. Seasons 3 and 4 are being filmed back-to-back. Most of the main cast is expected to return, including Rebecca Ferguson, Steve Zahn, Common, Harriet Walter, Clare Perkins, and others. Jessica Henwick and Ashley Zukerman, who appeared in the season 2 finale, will join as regulars. Tim Robbins and Iain Glen may not return. Season 3 will offer a rare glimpse of the outside world, bringing light—literally and figuratively—into the dark, claustrophobic narrative. You can stream Silo exclusively on Apple TV+.
Gulf Today
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Binge-worthy TV
The best thing to do in this summer heat is to get lost in a really good television show. This week we are taking a look at some of the most interesting shows that you can put on and binge-watch. 'Silo' is a science fiction dystopian drama show based on the novels of the same name by author Hugh Howey. The series is set in the future and stars Rebecca Ferguson as an engineer who, along with 10,000 other people, lives underground. Two seasons have been released already while the third and fourth have been confirmed. This show is perfect to start at the beginning of the weekend and watch non-stop. The show 'Prime Target' features 'The White Lotus' star Leo Woodall in the lead role. Already a hit after only one season, the series tells the tale of a mathematics genius who travels around the world conducting important, valuable research. Without spoiling too much of the plot, 'Prime Target' is definitely worthy of being binge-watched. In other news this week, turn to our Nutrition pages to read about the benefits of having chia seeds in your diet. These little seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids and essential minerals. They can be ingested by adding them to water or juice or even sprinkled on top of yogurt.
New York Times
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
After the Apocalypse, Will We Decamp to a Suburb or a High-Rise?
'Paradise' is a TV show on Hulu about a postapocalyptic society that lives underground in a suburb. 'Silo' is a TV show on Apple TV+ about a postapocalyptic society that lives underground in an apartment tower. Both are propelled by mysteries. Both feature curious heroes. Both have shifty leaders who lie, blackmail and murder to keep their secrets hidden and their denizens in line. The shows have much in common, in other words. But somehow they find opposing answers to a question that seems increasingly relevant in a warming world: If the planet goes to hell and humanity heads to a bunker, what sort of neighborhood will we build inside it? A spacious holdout that tries to approximate a comfortable standard of living, or a cramped locker that saves more lives but leaves the survivors miserable? By imagining wildly different landscapes in response to the same end-of-the-world conceit, the shows use cinematic extremes to show how civilization and class divisions are constructed through the apportionment of space. People like to live around other people right up to the moment they feel their neighborhood has been overrun by others, at which point the hunger for togetherness becomes an impulse to exclude. A good amount of today's housing politics fall within these parameters, whether it's a proposal to build apartments in a suburb or a plan to cover farms with a new city. The fact that this debate now extends to fictional bunkers has me convinced that in the aftermath of global calamity, people will be at some dystopian City Council meeting arguing about zoning. Curious how they came up with their underground cities, I called writers of the two works — Dan Fogelman, the creator and showrunner of 'Paradise,' and Hugh Howey, author of the novels on which 'Silo' is based. I wanted to understand the inspiration for each world and what those worlds tell us about the societal trade-offs between accommodating a lot of people and trying to make those people happy. The recent wildfires in Los Angeles added a dose of nonfiction heaviness to both conversations. A little over a month ago, in the hours before my neighborhood in Los Angeles was evacuated, my wife and I feverishly packed suitcases with clothes, passports and stuffed animals for our two small children. Thankfully, our house was fine. But thousands of others are gone, and now the rush to rebuild is running into California's housing crisis. Los Angeles has the unfortunate distinction of having what is arguably the nation's worst housing affordability and homelessness problem. A longstanding housing shortage is the root, and the only way to fix it is to build more. That remedy will require many of the more suburban parts of the city to fill in with denser housing. Cue the old debate about newcomers ruining the low-density idyll earlier residents bought into. Mr. Fogelman and Mr. Howey had a lot to say about how cities function and the power brokers who build them. Anxieties about where that power lies drive the plot of each story, just as they do housing politics. 'Silo,' which finished its second season this year and is scheduled to have two more, is a parable about central planning gone awry. The 144-story silo in the series is basically an underground housing project. It is run by a government with a humane mission, which is to preserve humanity for a long as possible. The problem is that this government will stop at nothing, from distributing propaganda to crushing opposition, to achieve it. 'Paradise' is more concerned about oligarchic wealth. The show, which airs its finale on Tuesday and was renewed for a second season, posits that if the earth becomes uninhabitable, a chosen few will be led to safety not by a state agency but by titans of business. The mastermind behind the city is a technology chief executive who is both industrious and decisive. She also makes sure that the underground future keeps her before-times wealth in mind. Mr. Fogelman told me that the inspiration for 'Paradise' came suddenly about a decade ago, after a meeting with a well-known billionaire he declined to name. 'As I was driving home from that meeting, thinking how much power and wealth, how many people under his control does that guy have, a crane in Culver City dropped something really big and made a loud bang,' he said. He started thinking about how the rich guy would fare if that bang had been the beginning of the end. 'And it just kind of became the start of the idea,' he said. Scarcity is the condition for after-it-all-ends story lines. What makes 'Paradise' unique is that the story revolves around a future society's efforts to paper over it. The back story, which is explored in flashbacks, is that a group of billionaires began planning for a climate-related disaster a decade before it occurred. They do this by building a small city under a mountain in Colorado — a project so outlandishly expensive they install their own president to leverage the federal kitty (one might call this a bailout). Mr. Fogelman, who grew up in suburban New Jersey, said that in his mind the city's founders were trying to demonstrate American continuity. In a recent video call, members of the creative team behind 'Paradise' walked me through a long list of details — from the workings of the overhead 'sky' to the need for powdered eggs — for how they thought the fictional city would work. As a matter of urban planning, 'Paradise' makes no sense: The city is about two miles wide, but its characters live in spacious single-family homes and seem to drive more than they walk or bike. The design isn't about ease of use but instead is about creating a familiar, Disney-esque scene meant to distract the city's residents from all the death on the earth's surface, Mr. Fogelman said. The goal of saving lives is second to the goal of clinging to suburban life. 'I feel confident that any billionaire who may secretly be building an underground bunker for themselves right now is not building a utilitarian cave,' Mr. Fogelman said. 'They would be putting in screening rooms and want to be able to take a walk down the street with their family.' Mr. Howey, author of the 'Silo' book series, called me from Miami, where he is building a boat that he and his wife plan to sail around the world. He began the conversation by saying that he has lived in almost every kind of housing one can live in — a farm, an apartment tower, the suburbs, a van — but that it is the ocean life that most inspires 'Silo.' 'You take for granted how much the earth is in flux when you live in a concrete building or a house in the suburbs,' he said. But people who live on boats lose their homes all the time, he said. Growing up in the 1980s, Mr. Howey said, he was influenced less by class divisions than by geopolitical strife and fears of nuclear warfare. His silo is a government project, built to hold thousands of people as efficiently as possible. Centuries later, its citizens have no idea how they got there. The silo's creators have erased history and knowledge of the outside world, and use a handbook of regulations that govern life inside. Images of trees and other aspects of the natural world are outlawed. The silo cares little about its residents' comfort, because the alternative is the extinction of the human race. And unlike the city in 'Paradise,' it was built with a budget. 'That's why there's a public housing kind of feel to it,' Mr. Howey said. 'It was cookie cutter. It wasn't designed for aesthetic pleasure — it was designed to serve a function.' Like Mr. Fogelman, Mr. Howey imagined the initial residents as being composed largely of American suburbanites. The basic question of the books is how crazy those people would go without access to sun and space. 'What's the minimal amount to not lose people?' Mr. Howey said. 'I wasn't trying to design a place that anybody would want to live.' Movies and TV shows have long used the changing landscape as an ancillary character in their stories. From the suburban explosion after World War II, to the decline of the urban core in the 1970s and 1980s, to the downtown revival of recent decades, the places they show reflect the shifting patterns of American life. Today, it seems, shows have become enamored with visions of less hospitable and abundant earth. 'Paradise' and 'Silo' are part of a growing trove of movies and TV shows ('The Last of Us,' 'Snowpiercer' and 'Fallout' are some others) about how society is organized after catastrophe. Whether that's tyrannical order or tyrannical anarchy, a silo or a paradise, the answers are darker and more speculative than simple changes in geography. None are especially optimistic (that would be boring TV!), but in their own ways grasp at a future that seems increasingly hard to chart. 'The world is very scary right now,' Mr. Fogelman said when I asked him why he thought apocalypse themes are so popular. 'By the nature of imagining what the world would look like after, at least you're imagining a world.'
