Itv Studios in London
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Might be slightly off topic, apologise in advance.
I'm currently spending the weekend in London for the first time in 25 / 30 odd years.
Took a river cruise today.
Now last time, all those years ago, I took a similar cruise and amongst other things, the Lwt building as was, was name checked.
Took the cruise today, The National Theatre was name checked, but Itv Studios wasn't.
Is there any reason why the Itv building wouldn't be name checked on a tour?
Went on a bus tour earlier and we went past Channel Four and that was name checked.
A tour also goes past Broadcasting House but I didn't go on that one but walked up to BH myself.
Is BH name checked too?
Just seems strange an iconic building like Lwt/Itv is no longer mentioned to tourists unless it was a one off?
I'm currently spending the weekend in London for the first time in 25 / 30 odd years.
Took a river cruise today.
Now last time, all those years ago, I took a similar cruise and amongst other things, the Lwt building as was, was name checked.
Took the cruise today, The National Theatre was name checked, but Itv Studios wasn't.
Is there any reason why the Itv building wouldn't be name checked on a tour?
Went on a bus tour earlier and we went past Channel Four and that was name checked.
A tour also goes past Broadcasting House but I didn't go on that one but walked up to BH myself.
Is BH name checked too?
Just seems strange an iconic building like Lwt/Itv is no longer mentioned to tourists unless it was a one off?
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But perhaps that's more obvois to the tour guides due to the massive Channel 4 logo. Of course not, it's probably due to people running the tour not realising or thinking it wouldn't be that interesting. It's not really that iconic, i'm sure if I showed my parents, my friends etc the building they'd have no idea what it said.
One being if you are doing a trip down the thames past ITV, there are far more tourist hotspots around that a commentary is likely to be commenting on. If you are on a bus tour past Channel 4, there isn't much else to announce.
Secondly Channel 4's building is quite impressive from the front, more impressive than ITV's building from the back.
Of course don't let any of this get in the way of a conspiracy theory.
LWT was the poor man's Thames. It did a few good shows, but produced some real drivel that the BBC used to hammer in the ratings on Saturday nights. There was a joke at Thames that said LWT used to mean Let's Watch Thames.
What's Daybreak
And that's a tourist from the UK asking the question
Umm, global warming should be able to sort that one out.
I'm back home now but when me and my sister were walking round London, we spotted a yellow sports car.
When we got to Whitehall, we saw said yellow sports car being filmed several times by a crew.
Does anyone know to any filming in Central London this weekend?
I assume it's an action movie of some description.
The new series of 24 is being filmed at the moment, but there are probably at least half a dozen other dramas or movies being filmed in London too.
One final aside.
The hotel we stopped at apparently had complaints about the coaches using it from the local residents.
One of the local residents was apparently David Mellor!
Glad to see a Tory is ******* off.
Makes a change from them ******* us public off!
(And I do know Mellor is no longer an Mp before anyone says! )