Studio TC2 is used by Lorraine and Loose Women daily, with their sets easily put up and dismantled. The studio is also used by ITV's Peston Show and Channel 4's Sunday Brunch. Studio TC3 has two sets built back to back - This Morning and GMB. Studio TC1 is really the only available studio now for entertainment shows at the reduced complex.
John King - That’s the trouble John, the developer demolished far too many studios when there’s a shortage with the old LWT building shutting to name but one, I could name a few others as well, hence the pressures on rental space is at a premium.
@@jacksugden8190 The likes of Pinewood, Shepperton and Elstree have benefited from the closures of these purpose built TV studios though, amazing isn't it?
I never knew TC2 had two shows, because it's all in the same position every show, for Lorraine & Loose Women, like the set is always in the right position not even the slightest to the side, idk how they do it, I also didnt know it housed BBC for that long.
@@missdonutaltaccount1380 Hi, they have a fast turnaround of sets due to the fact the sets are easily dismantled and put up again. As soon as Lorraine is over at 10am, the team come in and dismantle her set within a half hour and the set for Loose Women as all there ready in the scene dock, for it to be put into the studio within an hour. By 11am, the Loose Women set is ready, audience chairs in place and the studio audience arrive around 11.45am. The whole set is taken down and the studio is left empty by 3pm if the studio is to be used by another production in the evening. If not, the Lorraine set is brought back into the studio for the next day. Great team work, and carefully constructed sets make the fast turnaround very easy.
@@missdonutaltaccount1380 TC2 opened in 1960 along with TC3, the first studios brought into service when what was BBC Television Centre opened in the summer of 1960. TC1 shell was built, but it would take a further four years before TC1 was opened for business in 1964.
Michael O'Keefe - as the bbc (a lease) with the landlords, so stupid after closing the old LWT complex on the South Bank, BBC Studio Works surely could work out of NBH.
John King - Me too in the days when it had news studios N1 and N2, this was pre 1999, I saw many shows there, these days it’s a shadow of its former self, and too bad the wrecking ball hadn’t stopped, as what you see now was listed, hoped it would come down.
Well the BBC shouldn’t have treated it like sh*t then. Thank god TV is still being made there and that the building itself remains, albeit with a different purpose in parts
@@givemethevalium BBC wanted rid of the building for some reason. They kept three of the eight original studios, the other five are now dust. I remember the best studio there was TC8, so many sitcoms made in there, I bet if you named a few BBC sitcoms of the past, I could tell you they were made in TC8. A truly beautiful studio, which due to its location in the complex could have been kept and maintained on its own, possibly as an independent studio, not owned by BBC Studioworks, but BBC idiocy played and it bit the dust too.
@@johnking5174 TC8 was- I'm presuming- Grace Brothers, Fawlty Towers, and HMP Slade. If only the BBC (or any broadcaster was today making anything to touch their greatness)
We were due to go on the tour, but it was closed the very weekend visiting. Still going tho, to look around the building itself. Before it all happened, you couldn't go past the entrance - now I believe you can go into the reception. Can you go around the building, or is that with 'apartment' passes?
@@jacksugden8190 I know. Still fascinates tho, knowing they were offices, and in some cases, studio galleries. I'd still love to go on the tour tho. To see if Studio 1 really is as big as it looks on the various shows I know that use it.
Idiotic comments on here from ex-BBCers who would rather see it bulldozed than exist into the 21st century. Your blessed BBC gave it no love whatsoever, so thank goodness for private developers and the likes of ITV. Deep down, successive DGs have preferred radio to TV (how much more prestigious is the Today prog than Breakfast, for example; Archers v EastEnders etc). So small wonder it prioritised NBH, which was never, ever as iconic as TVC
@@andy-clewes I take it TC3 is never used for any other programmes other than This Morning and GMB? TC2 is more flexible as the daytime sets of Lorraine and Loose Women are portable right?
Jack Sugden (sore) to be pedantic. It’s iconic as a building Jack what’s so awful about it - can you say what building you think are worth celebrating - what buildings do you admire
@@chrishainstock330 I admired N1 and N2, in their hay day admired News productions 1993-1999, it was such a brilliant set up, the BBC and itv rent TVC, crazy when the BBC once owned TVC, developers could have rebuilt the site with ‘state of the art’ modern studios, more than the current three.
Studio TC2 is used by Lorraine and Loose Women daily, with their sets easily put up and dismantled. The studio is also used by ITV's Peston Show and Channel 4's Sunday Brunch. Studio TC3 has two sets built back to back - This Morning and GMB. Studio TC1 is really the only available studio now for entertainment shows at the reduced complex.
John King - That’s the trouble John, the developer demolished far too many studios when there’s a shortage with the old LWT building shutting to name but one, I could name a few others as well, hence the pressures on rental space is at a premium.
@@jacksugden8190 The likes of Pinewood, Shepperton and Elstree have benefited from the closures of these purpose built TV studios though, amazing isn't it?
I never knew TC2 had two shows, because it's all in the same position every show, for Lorraine & Loose Women, like the set is always in the right position not even the slightest to the side, idk how they do it, I also didnt know it housed BBC for that long.
@@missdonutaltaccount1380 Hi, they have a fast turnaround of sets due to the fact the sets are easily dismantled and put up again. As soon as Lorraine is over at 10am, the team come in and dismantle her set within a half hour and the set for Loose Women as all there ready in the scene dock, for it to be put into the studio within an hour. By 11am, the Loose Women set is ready, audience chairs in place and the studio audience arrive around 11.45am. The whole set is taken down and the studio is left empty by 3pm if the studio is to be used by another production in the evening. If not, the Lorraine set is brought back into the studio for the next day. Great team work, and carefully constructed sets make the fast turnaround very easy.
@@missdonutaltaccount1380 TC2 opened in 1960 along with TC3, the first studios brought into service when what was BBC Television Centre opened in the summer of 1960. TC1 shell was built, but it would take a further four years before TC1 was opened for business in 1964.
Hard to believe that ITV has studios in what was once the studios owned by the BBC.
Michael O'Keefe - as the bbc (a lease) with the landlords, so stupid after closing the old LWT complex on the South Bank, BBC Studio Works surely could work out of NBH.
ITV moved in 2018
You can still on TC1 the Old BBC Blocks printed on the wall
MJones 10 - I cant stick Good Morning Britain’s hosts, especially that opinionated ex newspaper man.
@@jacksugden8190 i guess that comment was kinda irrelevant
I know. It has an eerie feel.
I was at Television Centre during their better years, before their heart and soul was ripped out by the developers from 2013.
John King - Me too in the days when it had news studios N1 and N2, this was pre 1999, I saw many shows there, these days it’s a shadow of its former self, and too bad the wrecking ball hadn’t stopped, as what you see now was listed, hoped it would come down.
@@jacksugden8190 Can you imagine what would have happened if it were not listed?
Well the BBC shouldn’t have treated it like sh*t then. Thank god TV is still being made there and that the building itself remains, albeit with a different purpose in parts
@@givemethevalium BBC wanted rid of the building for some reason. They kept three of the eight original studios, the other five are now dust. I remember the best studio there was TC8, so many sitcoms made in there, I bet if you named a few BBC sitcoms of the past, I could tell you they were made in TC8. A truly beautiful studio, which due to its location in the complex could have been kept and maintained on its own, possibly as an independent studio, not owned by BBC Studioworks, but BBC idiocy played and it bit the dust too.
@@johnking5174 TC8 was- I'm presuming- Grace Brothers, Fawlty Towers, and HMP Slade. If only the BBC (or any broadcaster was today making anything to touch their greatness)
We were due to go on the tour, but it was closed the very weekend visiting. Still going tho, to look around the building itself. Before it all happened, you couldn't go past the entrance - now I believe you can go into the reception. Can you go around the building, or is that with 'apartment' passes?
Simon Lewis - The Helios is for penthouse owners, it’s nothing to do with the studios anymore.
@@jacksugden8190 I know. Still fascinates tho, knowing they were offices, and in some cases, studio galleries. I'd still love to go on the tour tho. To see if Studio 1 really is as big as it looks on the various shows I know that use it.
2:37 They forgot to add ITV logo.
Idiotic comments on here from ex-BBCers who would rather see it bulldozed than exist into the 21st century. Your blessed BBC gave it no love whatsoever, so thank goodness for private developers and the likes of ITV. Deep down, successive DGs have preferred radio to TV (how much more prestigious is the Today prog than Breakfast, for example; Archers v EastEnders etc). So small wonder it prioritised NBH, which was never, ever as iconic as TVC
At least it hasn't been knocked down yet, hopefully quality shows will be made there one day
do they leave those screens running all day?
Only if the studios are operational or if tours are taking place :)
@@andy-clewes I take it TC3 is never used for any other programmes other than This Morning and GMB? TC2 is more flexible as the daytime sets of Lorraine and Loose Women are portable right?
John King - screens declvide one set from the other.
1:45
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Eye saw, should have demolished the lot after the BBC moved out, as very few buildings left including the centre ring.
They had to keep part of the complex, especially the fascade of TC1 as it is a listed building.
Jack Sugden (sore) to be pedantic. It’s iconic as a building Jack what’s so awful about it - can you say what building you think are worth celebrating - what buildings do you admire
@@chrishainstock330 I admired N1 and N2, in their hay day admired News productions 1993-1999, it was such a brilliant set up, the BBC and itv rent TVC, crazy when the BBC once owned TVC, developers could have rebuilt the site with ‘state of the art’ modern studios, more than the current three.