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Or the location for Fawlty Towers:
http://www.btinternet.com/~c.tomlinson/wgaf9.jpg
http://www.btinternet.com/~c.tomlinson/wgaf1.jpg
Pictures from: The Unofficial Guide To Fawlty Towers
tvarksouthwest posted:
If you think Brookside is in a state you obviously haven't seen Follyfoot Farm, used in the 70s series :
www.follyfoot-tv.co.uk
www.follyfoot-tv.co.uk
Or the location for Fawlty Towers:
http://www.btinternet.com/~c.tomlinson/wgaf9.jpg
http://www.btinternet.com/~c.tomlinson/wgaf1.jpg
Pictures from: The Unofficial Guide To Fawlty Towers
NG
What happened to the old Big Breakfast house?
AFAIK after the fire it was bought privately and turned into a home . . .
Before the arson attack Channel 4 was hoping to get around £1million for it's sale. It eventually sold for about 40% less.
Since then, the owners have completely repaired and renovated it. They've kept a ten foot barbed wire topped security
fence attached to the old white picket fence, to prevent East End chav thugs getting in and wrecking the place again.
"The Cottage" as it's now known, is a residential property. The owners even lived in part of it during the repair work.
Meanwhile, back on topic ... here's a birds eye view of Brookside Close . . .
http://djgm.co.uk/misc/Brookside-Close-from-above.jpg
Did Channel 4 own the cottages ? I'd have thought that Planet 24, the makers of the Big Breakfast did? After all, it was an independent production wasn't it - not a Channel 4 in-house production (which historically were just a couple of shows like Right to Reply)
noggin
Founding member
DJGM posted:
cromerlad posted:
SOL posted:
What happened to the old Big Breakfast house?
AFAIK after the fire it was bought privately and turned into a home . . .
Before the arson attack Channel 4 was hoping to get around £1million for it's sale. It eventually sold for about 40% less.
Since then, the owners have completely repaired and renovated it. They've kept a ten foot barbed wire topped security
fence attached to the old white picket fence, to prevent East End chav thugs getting in and wrecking the place again.
"The Cottage" as it's now known, is a residential property. The owners even lived in part of it during the repair work.
Meanwhile, back on topic ... here's a birds eye view of Brookside Close . . .
http://djgm.co.uk/misc/Brookside-Close-from-above.jpg
Did Channel 4 own the cottages ? I'd have thought that Planet 24, the makers of the Big Breakfast did? After all, it was an independent production wasn't it - not a Channel 4 in-house production (which historically were just a couple of shows like Right to Reply)
NG
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They bought the whole street of houses in a new estate. It was cheaper, easier and quicker to do it that way than go down the Eastenders route of building a street and sets
Cheaper for Mersey TV. I suspect that because the BBC already owned the Elstree site, it was cheaper for them to use space they already owned, and had facilities for, than buy/build new property and new equipment. (Eastenders has never, at least in recent years, had full gallery facilities. Although it is cut multicamera, the cut is just done on a simple matrix, not a vision mixer!)
Brookside (like Eldorado which used the same concept) was, initially, a nightmare - because the houses were not built for production, and thus didn't have removable walls, or decent sound properties. Mersey TV always had high technical standards though, and from the beginning used new, good quality cameras.
In contrast, EastEnders was shot at Elstree, using EMI cameras that were over 15 years old and had been retired from other BBC studios... The premises were bought from ATV when they had to become Central and locate all their production in the Midlands (previously ATV had some production at Elstree) - so the Beeb inherited some decent TV studios (albeit that needed refurbing).
Mersey made the right decision for their production, arguably the BBC made the right decision for theirs. They started from different positions.
noggin
Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
josh205 posted:
were the houses in a real street or studios, and mainly is the picture real
They bought the whole street of houses in a new estate. It was cheaper, easier and quicker to do it that way than go down the Eastenders route of building a street and sets
Cheaper for Mersey TV. I suspect that because the BBC already owned the Elstree site, it was cheaper for them to use space they already owned, and had facilities for, than buy/build new property and new equipment. (Eastenders has never, at least in recent years, had full gallery facilities. Although it is cut multicamera, the cut is just done on a simple matrix, not a vision mixer!)
Brookside (like Eldorado which used the same concept) was, initially, a nightmare - because the houses were not built for production, and thus didn't have removable walls, or decent sound properties. Mersey TV always had high technical standards though, and from the beginning used new, good quality cameras.
In contrast, EastEnders was shot at Elstree, using EMI cameras that were over 15 years old and had been retired from other BBC studios... The premises were bought from ATV when they had to become Central and locate all their production in the Midlands (previously ATV had some production at Elstree) - so the Beeb inherited some decent TV studios (albeit that needed refurbing).
Mersey made the right decision for their production, arguably the BBC made the right decision for theirs. They started from different positions.
DJ
RE: The (former) BIG Breakfast House . . .
Did Channel 4 own the cottages ? I'd have thought that Planet 24, the makers of the Big Breakfast did?
After all, it was an independent production wasn't it - not a Channel 4 in-house production (which
historically were just a couple of shows like Right to Reply)
Planet 24 did own the (former) BIG Breakfast House at first. Channel 4 bought it in 1996, prior to the first relaunch.
noggin posted:
Did Channel 4 own the cottages ? I'd have thought that Planet 24, the makers of the Big Breakfast did?
After all, it was an independent production wasn't it - not a Channel 4 in-house production (which
historically were just a couple of shows like Right to Reply)
Planet 24 did own the (former) BIG Breakfast House at first. Channel 4 bought it in 1996, prior to the first relaunch.
CW
I seem to recall one of the BBC continuity announcers mentioning about that before the start of one of the episodes of Open All Hours.
Charlie Wells
Moderator
stevek posted:
heared recently that doncaster council want to pull down the street open all hours was filmed on.
I seem to recall one of the BBC continuity announcers mentioning about that before the start of one of the episodes of Open All Hours.
JO
What happened to the old Big Breakfast house?
AFAIK after the fire it was bought privately and turned into a home . . .
Before the arson attack Channel 4 was hoping to get around £1million for it's sale. It eventually sold for about 40% less.
Since then, the owners have completely repaired and renovated it. They've kept a ten foot barbed wire topped security
fence attached to the old white picket fence, to prevent East End chav thugs getting in and wrecking the place again.
"The Cottage" as it's now known, is a residential property. The owners even lived in part of it during the repair work.
Meanwhile, back on topic ... here's a birds eye view of Brookside Close . . .
http://djgm.co.uk/misc/Brookside-Close-from-above.jpg
Did Channel 4 own the cottages ? I'd have thought that Planet 24, the makers of the Big Breakfast did? After all, it was an independent production wasn't it - not a Channel 4 in-house production (which historically were just a couple of shows like Right to Reply)
So the houses just to the left of the close, where they also owned by Channel4/Mersey TV or are these privately owned?
Also interesting to see how far back that wooded area goes, seeing as the final storyline was all to do with building an incinerator(sp) there
noggin posted:
DJGM posted:
cromerlad posted:
SOL posted:
What happened to the old Big Breakfast house?
AFAIK after the fire it was bought privately and turned into a home . . .
Before the arson attack Channel 4 was hoping to get around £1million for it's sale. It eventually sold for about 40% less.
Since then, the owners have completely repaired and renovated it. They've kept a ten foot barbed wire topped security
fence attached to the old white picket fence, to prevent East End chav thugs getting in and wrecking the place again.
"The Cottage" as it's now known, is a residential property. The owners even lived in part of it during the repair work.
Meanwhile, back on topic ... here's a birds eye view of Brookside Close . . .
http://djgm.co.uk/misc/Brookside-Close-from-above.jpg
Did Channel 4 own the cottages ? I'd have thought that Planet 24, the makers of the Big Breakfast did? After all, it was an independent production wasn't it - not a Channel 4 in-house production (which historically were just a couple of shows like Right to Reply)
So the houses just to the left of the close, where they also owned by Channel4/Mersey TV or are these privately owned?
Also interesting to see how far back that wooded area goes, seeing as the final storyline was all to do with building an incinerator(sp) there