But I think generally the YouTube studios are used as a four waller.
Often people film without multiple cameras and cut between them in post, rather than as a live production. Or use something like OBS to stream live. They're more stages than studios.
The likes of Netflix and YouTube don't need TV studios. Their productions use film techniques, so use 4 wallers and sound stages
Spot on about Netflix - they only have interesting in 'long tail' content - like drama and docs, which don't use traditional TV studios. (Though they do use multicamera OBs for capturing stand-up comedy)
YouTube? They have studios in their buildings - and are doing some multicamera stuff (including live streaming). They aren't 'traditional' studios - but they have control rooms with decent sound desks etc., and broadcast crews are employed to work in them.
And yet YouTube does have TV studios - and several of them - at its temporary HQ in King's Cross and planned for its permanent HQ too.
But are they multipurpose multicamera production studios, or ones for simple interviews or 'vloggers'?
Some of them are definitely capable of decent live music production in sound terms (64 channel SSL desk), and broadcast crews are employed to drive them.
For studio audiences getting to Pinewood using public transport is totally useless. But there is a large car park - so that's all right then..
Well, indeed - and they have a shuttle bus for their staff so they clearly know it's an issue. If they're regularly filming audience shows there, which they are, surely it would make sense to keep the bus running into the evening? If you're inviting audiences (and these shows rely on them being there), they surely have an obligation to make it easier for them to get there.
I wernt to a show at Pinewood a few months back and we ended up sharing a cab back to Uxbridge tube station with two lads from Bradford who were absolutely blown away by the Uber app, before just making the last tube of the night. A bit of an adventure, but massively inconvenient.
I went to the first recording of Grownups (the BBC3 Sheridan Smith/Susan Nickson vehicle that wasn't Two Pints at all, definitely not) which went on for ever and ever. SS didn't half fluff her lines. Luckily the up-and-coming warmup was one Jason Manford who kept everything ticking along nicely.
Conversely when I saw the Lottery: Jet Set there were some audience members who were determined to take a loo break despite the show only being about 40 mins long, and after being hushed back to their seat ended up noisily climbing over the barriers at the back while the draw was taking place live on air...
(this was a few weeks before Fathers4Justice-gate so perhaps unsurprising the audience could move about uninhibited!)
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Well I would have been happy to sit there and watch SS fluff them lines as many times as she wanted to (yes I am a big SS fan ))
Stratford from SW London isn't that bad, nice fast tube from Waterloo, and soon on Crossrail I think.
If itv does set up in Stratford its very unlikely they'd have a general purpose studio like they did in the south bank
As well as Sky, Elstree and Pinewood are pigs to get to
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I don't know about pinewood and Sky as I have never been to a show in either of these studios, but Elstree is not that hard to get to from Central London, We stayed there a few years back and used it as a base to visit London to, its has its own rail station that is the last on line you can use your travel ticket on, as I don't like driving in London we parked at the station, and then travelled into London. but we could have also used a good local bus service, but walking from the station to and from both the BBC Elstree site and Elstree Studios is also possible as its not a long distance to them.
Thing is about Elstree is that it's on the Thameslink line, which is 4 trains an hour which for most Londoners is like a third world train service.
Mind you Sky is near the tube but the walk from the station is fairly long and grim. I can't remember why but last time I came back from there I walked for ages along the A4.
The problem with audiences anywhere is what happens late at night, if there's a tube or nearby then it's less of an issue especially these days.
One advantage that Elstree has is when it's used for elections. I'd imagine it's easier getting MPs from all the constituencies north of London.
Before WWII there were plans well underway to extend the Northern Line to Elstree (in fact I believe the lines are still half built underground) with the intention of serving new housing estates planned for the area. However building work stopped during the war and the Attlee government of 1945 introduced legislation which limited the expansion of urban areas into rural towns and so the station was scrapped.
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