Media
Todmorden has been used as a filming location for the 1980s BBC TV police drama Juliet Bravo, Territorial Army series All Quiet on the Preston Front, parts of The League of Gentlemen, BBC TV miniseries Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the award-winning BBC1 series Life on Mars and a film adaptation of the novel My Summer of Love.
Todmorden featured in a TV show about haunted buildings. The programme included a closed surgery in which Harold Shipman worked for a number of years, as well as the town hall (haunted by a grey lady), and Odd Fellows Hall (known as Baxters bar), which is haunted by a builder who died in the construction of the building in 1811.
Before May 2009, the links to Lancashire and the North West were also seen in the media with Todmorden receiving an analogue TV signal from BBC North West. Todmorden and the nearby towns and villages then received BBC Yorkshire analogue television from Leeds, whilst ITV regionalisation was from Yorkshire Television at Leeds and not Granada Television from Manchester. However, both transmissions were freely available in some areas of Walsden.
In February 2010, Todmorden featured in the BBC Radio 4 programme "Costing the Earth: The New Diggers". Members of a guerrilla gardening group spoke about reclaiming unused land for growing vegetables, how this helps the local community and how it can be a driver for change.
In November 2011, Todmorden featured in the Channel 4 programme The Secret of Luck, in which Derren Brown sought to convince the town that the dog statue in Centre Vale Park brought good luck.
Todmorden received a visit from Prince Charles who came to support Mary Clear's Incredible Edible Todmorden project. This featured on BBC Yorkshire.
Todmorden received a grant for the support of bees and bee keeping in summer of 2011.
Todmorden's local newspaper is the Todmorden News owned by Johnston Press.
Singletrack Magazine, a national mountain biking magazine, is based in Todmorden.
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