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Old 04-12-2016, 07:54
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wow ok ,i beleave it now ,there had been so many date changes i didn't know what to beleave. so i wounder now if there will be any speacial news or tv programmes to promoto this?
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Old 04-12-2016, 20:16
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wow ok ,i beleave it now ,there had been so many date changes i didn't know what to beleave. so i wounder now if there will be any speacial news or tv programmes to promoto this?
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Old 04-12-2016, 20:32
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why are only london studios used for most of the shows these days, why not use different part of the uk which has studios, people up north will never get a chance to be in the audience due to distance, having it in different areas will have different people in audience that can enjoy things. i bet the same people goto all the recordings when in london
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Old 04-12-2016, 20:50
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Simon just acknowledged the studio's demise on X Factor and said it was sad they were knocking it down, which was a nice touch.
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Old 04-12-2016, 20:58
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why are only london studios used for most of the shows these days, why not use different part of the uk which has studios, people up north will never get a chance to be in the audience due to distance, having it in different areas will have different people in audience that can enjoy things. i bet the same people goto all the recordings when in london
Lets gloss over the fact Manchester had multi million pound investment in MediaCityUK then...
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Old 04-12-2016, 21:01
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Countdown, Question of Sport, Jeremy Kyle, Still Open All Hours and other shows are done in Manchester
Mrs Brown's Boys, Still Game and the lottery quiz shows in Glasgow as well as Eggheads but they don't have an audience
Deal or No Deal in Bristol
The BBC also does other shows for which you can get tickets in Cardiff and Belfast
Apply for tickets to the BBC, ITV or C4
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Old 04-12-2016, 21:02
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ITV are selling it off to help the housing crisis in the U.K..
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Old 04-12-2016, 21:04
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Simon just acknowledged the studio's demise on X Factor and said it was sad they were knocking it down, which was a nice touch.
Next year it'll be held in a make shift tent.
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Old 05-12-2016, 00:53
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ITV are selling it off to help the housing crisis in the U.K..
It doesn't belong to ITV.
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Old 05-12-2016, 00:55
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I went there to record 'Rebound' a few months back. RIP Fountain.
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Old 05-12-2016, 05:09
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X Factor is moving to LH2 in NW London
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Old 05-12-2016, 08:24
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I take your point - I was actually thinking of the larger production studios. BBC Plymouth was re-equipped for HD this year by the way.
There are also BBC Bristol still at the same site first used in 1957, and BBC NI is also in the same original building for the news studio. I can't think of any large BBC studios from the 1950s or 1960s which are still in use - Ally Pally, Lime Grove, Riverside and currently TVC are all either unused or demolished. The large studios outside London are all new or closed. Elstree is probably the only one that was acquired that had been already in use.
Ealing although owned by the BBC for a while was never used for regular live tx, but is still in use today for various TV and film work.

ITV has the Leeds studios first opened in 1968 of which some are still working,
Ulster / UTV has been mentioned already.
News studios at Anglia and TWW / HTV Bath Road, Bristol must be the other oldest still in use?
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Old 05-12-2016, 09:41
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Studio A Bristol which used to be the home of Johnny Morris and Tony Hart is long gone; C1 Cardiff is scheduled to close and there is talk of a new BBC HQ in Belfast.
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Old 05-12-2016, 10:12
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There really are so few large studios left now.

It'll be interesting to see how this one in Acton does, near the old BBC OB base.
It doesn't have built in facilities, so it hopefully has been designed for easy drive in rigs.

I hope the staff at Fountain Studios have already found other work, there were some good folk there who should be very employable elsewhere.
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Old 05-12-2016, 10:28
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Television has changed and the days when eight studios at TV Centre were all busy are just a distant memory. Makes you wonder what some of the ITV companies who had several studios like STV, Anglia, ATV, HTV and Granada were doing with them all the time.
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Old 05-12-2016, 10:56
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Television has changed and the days when eight studios at TV Centre were all busy are just a distant memory. Makes you wonder what some of the ITV companies who had several studios like STV, Anglia, ATV, HTV and Granada were doing with them all the time.
Back in the day ITV and BBC were producing dramas and sitcoms for seven days a week. There was location filming for exteriors shot on film, whilst interiors were on video in studio sets.

Now studio sitcoms are a rare breed, and dramas are mainly shot on location.
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Old 05-12-2016, 13:00
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XFactor and BGT are coming from LH2 next year.

http://www.lh2studios.co.uk/
Just looked this facility up online - not far from Fountain Studios in Wembley then.
The BGT live shows are scheduled for May, so that’s when we’ll first see them onscreen. Followed by The X Factor in October.

i thought the x factor was taking a year out ? or have i got the wrong information?
Yes, you’ve got the wrong information.
ITV have re-signed with The X Factor for the next 3 years (a joint deal with BGT).


Quite sad to see (most of) BBC Television Centre, Teddington Studios and Fountain Studios all being knocked down in the past few years. All historic TV studios, but that’s life I suppose.
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Old 05-12-2016, 13:04
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I first went there in the mid sixties to see 5 O'Clock Club (Muriel Young and Wally Whyton) The first went out live on the Monday, then they recorded the midweek edition.
Me too !!
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Old 05-12-2016, 13:52
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Just looked this facility up online - not far from Fountain Studios in Wembley then.
The BGT live shows are scheduled for May, so that’s when we’ll first see them onscreen. Followed by The X Factor in October.



Yes, you’ve got the wrong information.
ITV have re-signed with The X Factor for the next 3 years (a joint deal with BGT).


Quite sad to see (most of) BBC Television Centre, Teddington Studios and Fountain Studios all being knocked down in the past few years. All historic TV studios, but that’s life I suppose.
On the positive side there are plans for the regeneration of the world's first television studios

http://www.alexandrapalace.com/news/...-fund-support/
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Old 05-12-2016, 14:42
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Just looked this facility up online - not far from Fountain Studios in Wembley then.
The BGT live shows are scheduled for May, so that’s when we’ll first see them onscreen. Followed by The X Factor in October.



Yes, you’ve got the wrong information.
ITV have re-signed with The X Factor for the next 3 years (a joint deal with BGT).


Quite sad to see (most of) BBC Television Centre, Teddington Studios and Fountain Studios all being knocked down in the past few years. All historic TV studios, but that’s life I suppose.
the x factor is then news to me ,though i am not a big fan of the show . it is really sad to see at least 50% of all tv studios close down ,when there is still a big demand for tv studio production. i guess these days its anything will do if it works? with the news of AP being fully restored i would hope the BBC or other tv companys would make good use of an upgraded 1936 tv studio ,though the idea of a vistors centre is also good .i do look forward to seeing
tvc studios reopening next year . maybe someone could turn birmingham or nottingham into another mediacity of the midlands as this too was another tv heartland in its day.
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Old 05-12-2016, 17:37
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Even with the closure of Fountain Studios, there are still many others left in London.

Other than News cupboards in Birmingham, I can't think of any studios there. Ridiculous for a city of over 1m people. The Midlands is very badly served.
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Old 05-12-2016, 17:54
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Other than News cupboards in Birmingham, I can't think of any studios there. Ridiculous for a city of over 1m people. The Midlands is very badly served.
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Old 05-12-2016, 18:01
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That's the first time I have heard of those studios!
What programmes have been made there?
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Old 05-12-2016, 19:28
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Isn't BBC 1's Doctors made in Birmingham ? A far cry from the days of Pebble Mill however. And the BBC Birmingham OB is long gone.
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Old 05-12-2016, 20:15
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Gosh!!! I remember Freddie and The Dreamers being one of the guest bands.
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