Crimewatch

Anyone know which studio Crimewatch comes from? Interesting to see the set they're using includes the bare studio walls with all the wallboxes etc visible.

I think it moved to Manchester (Oxford Road?) a few years back. Couldn't say which studio exact though.

There are only two studios at Oxford Road, AIUI Studio B has the fixed set for NWT, so it would have to be Studio A, which is larger and owned by 3SixtyMedia the joint ITV/BBC Resources company operating both Oxford Road and Quay Street sites now marketed as "The Manchester Studios".

Crimewatch has come from TV Centre from many years. It moves between studios at TVC - and at times has come from TC2 (also home to Blue Peter at the moment) though not always. I think it may also have come from TC3 (which is bigger) in the current set.

Most TV Centre studios have similar looking walls...

AIUI Studio A has not had TV production facilities for many years, and is now used as a "Four Waller" for single camera production (including film). ISTR that some of Life on Mars was shot in there?

There was also Studio D at Manchester - which WAS operated by 3Sixty ISTR. The Heaven and Earth Show originally came from there before moving to the Granada space and relaunching as "Heaven and Earth with Gloria Hunniford" in a larger Granada studio (6 or 8 ISTR?)

These days I think that only Studio B is regularly used for TV Production at Oxford Road, and AIUI the BBC plan to have no "proper" TV studios of their own at Media City in Salford. Instead they plan to buy space in studios run by a 3rd party, but also to have galleries in the BBC building that can work to office-space studios (like some BBC regional news operations - and conceivably as developed as The One Show's), or work without a studio in the case of sport who often just need a gallery.

Yes, I think it's TC3 these days. As noggin has said, there's only one tv studio at Oxford Road now (Studio-B), and that's permanently used by regional tv. Studio-A was often regarded as a better space than those at Granada with more flexible lighting and a better gallery, but it's now hired as four-waller without a production gallery. Any BBC programme made in Manchester is usually recorded at Granada (though a BBC Manchester endcap does not necessarily mean the studio recording took place in Manchester of course!). Studio D closed when Heaven and Earth show was axed. Before H&E it was used for a BBC Choice show I think, and the D stood for "Digital". I've heard it was a fairly small space for a network studio.

I think Studio 6 at Granada is Granada Reports and all the local programs etc.

that's because somebody knicked the cyclorama

It's Studio 2 for Granada Reports.

Although its been quietly mentioned this week, basically ITV have made a gentlemans agreement with Media City UK to move over to Salford Quays when the Studios open by 2012. So what this means for Network Production from Manchester is uncertain, as is the future of the Quay Street base, they were going to move into the 'bonded warehouse' but those plans have obviously been shelved.

Anyone think this programme is way over-produced?
The music beds, pointless camera turns, RIDICULOUS scripting, and the glass walls with 'victim' and very large arrows pointing to pictures... It's like a sick joke parody of The Wire.
It's almost as if someone had a good idea, and can't quite pull it off.
And while we're on the subject, can the BBC find it within their HUGE organisation to cab a couple of lights up to the studio. It's too dark, full stop.

The glass penboards are particularly awful I agree.