ITV abandons the South Bank

There is also the Wimbledon Studios where Tipping Point is filmed, they have two studios at 7,000 and 8,000 Sq Ft each.

LH2 Studio where X Factor will be in the autumn has nearly 17,000 Sq Ft of space.

Riverside Studio 1 will be opening in 2018 with 6,500 sq Ft of space.

These will help, but having main studios in a prime location in London is what matters. These are all spaced out

The new itv studios design plan:
http://itvsouthbank.com/ITVEB.pdf

Looks really good. Demolition won't start until Summer 2018 and completion won't be until Winter 2023.

The 'temporary' studios for the daytime shows will need to be far more than just temporary, given that they'll be there for 5 years.

5 years is a long time in TV. Isn't that how Breakfast ended up in Salford because by the time Mediacity was built there had been so many changes they no longer met the required number of jobs being moved to the North.

This Morning in particular will need something decent that doesn't put viewers off, as it can't just be excused as a stop gap. The other programmes could be lifted to another location without viewers knowing the difference.

I bet Lambeth council won't pass that massive ITV logo signage. Of course by 2023 ITV probably won't still have that logo.

Pathetic how? That's clearly all they need.

So ultimately, will This Morning still have a view of water (the nod to its Liverpool heritage) come 2023?

From the plans it looks like they're not even demolishing that part?

It doesn't look really good at all. It's a bland, glass fronted, office block with an itv logo on it. The tried and tested "old building in a digital age" excuse is wheeled out yet again, as is "Ill suited to modern production workflow". Such cobblers, it makes me scream. Those are world class studios, loved by the crews and designers who work in them and they'll be sorely missed.

ITN have the studios they have because of cost cutting. ITV News London I am sure would like to have their own dedicated studio, which they had from 2004-2012, before being lumped in with the national news bulletins.

Such a huge building 200 Grays Inn Road, but ITN can not open another 3,000 Sq Ft studio to accommodate ITV News London or other productions. It reveals the money not being spent on news production at ITN.

If ITN had another studio, Good Morning Britain and Lorraine could easily move in, and being based at ITN would help with news output. Sadly they don't.

You'll probably find staff at ITN are more concerned about making news programmes than wanting a studio to mess around in...

Why would it make any difference, it'd still be ITV hiring a studio that isn't theirs.

Even if there was a free studio available the London news would still share a studio with the national news. It's all about saving money, running two studios unnecessarily is far more expensive than running one.


ITN are not opening other studios because they don't need any. And GMB and Lorraine couldn't "easily" move in, they need a lot more than just studio space.