A NEW BBC sitcom starring comedy legend Dawn French – and filmed in Somerset – is set to hit TV screens early next year.

The first glimpses of the show – Can You Keep a Secret? – have been revealed, including a backdrop of stunning Somerset.

The six-part series, starring national treasure Dawn and Mark Heap (Friday Night Dinner, Green Wing), was filmed on location in Axbridge, Cheddar and beyond, in February and March last year with the help of Screen Somerset.

Axbridge’s Medieval square is set to feature heavily, as it did in the recent series, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.

Filming for feature films and tv brought an estimated £4.2m of spend to the county last year and Screen Somerset, Somerset Council’s film office, said it is helping entice more productions this way.

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