JO
What and when? I can only remember Gameshows coming out of the now defunct Paintworks studios. It wasn’t that big and they’d have struggled to accommodate anything bigger than DOND.
Big Brother Panto and Shattered came from Bristol, as I think did the pre-recorded Fool Around with... on E4 and probably other Endemol shows of the time when they were churning out the cheap reality formats.
Shattered was East London according to the first episode on YouTube? I didn’t know much about the Big Brother panto and it has an Endemol West endcap. Didn’t realise that EFourum was but I can’t find any clips of that.
Edit: Turns out that EFourum has the Endemol West endcap. So looks like that’s correct.
Yes, think that was Black Island Studios in the middle of London. C4 have a phase of doing cheap reality shows at Endemol's studios in Bristol too.
What and when? I can only remember Gameshows coming out of the now defunct Paintworks studios. It wasn’t that big and they’d have struggled to accommodate anything bigger than DOND.
Big Brother Panto and Shattered came from Bristol, as I think did the pre-recorded Fool Around with... on E4 and probably other Endemol shows of the time when they were churning out the cheap reality formats.
Shattered was East London according to the first episode on YouTube? I didn’t know much about the Big Brother panto and it has an Endemol West endcap. Didn’t realise that EFourum was but I can’t find any clips of that.
Edit: Turns out that EFourum has the Endemol West endcap. So looks like that’s correct.
Last edited by Jon on 21 June 2020 12:20pm
HC
Yeah - I thought Shattered was done from a stage at Three Mills Studios in Bow - which may have been the reused and reworked set they also used for The 24 Hour Quiz, they produced for ITV.
DO
First clip I found says it's from there. I was going to have a look and see if I could work it out (I know that place like the back of my hand) but they were explicit about it so no point!
I thought Shattered came from Tobacco Dock?
First clip I found says it's from there. I was going to have a look and see if I could work it out (I know that place like the back of my hand) but they were explicit about it so no point!
BR
Did another show come from there later. I do strongly remember a reality show being filmed there but didn't think it was Shattered (though I was completely wrong on the location of that). So many one-off reality series seemed to be churned out in the mid-noughties they do all somewhat blend into one.
Anyone know where Unanimous was filmed - that only had one series but had a rather cool "bunker" set. Was a great format too but was never going to survive in comparison to Big Brother.
Anyone know where Unanimous was filmed - that only had one series but had a rather cool "bunker" set. Was a great format too but was never going to survive in comparison to Big Brother.
JO
I remember Unanimous quite well, Alex Humes later going on to pretend to be a Russian pilot in another ambitious Channel 4 reality TV attempt Space Cadets 
Funny how squabbling over money was all the rage for TV producers at one point, Golden Balls of course but they somehow went even worse with Divided randomly hosted by former tennis player and GMTV host Andrew Castle!
Funny how squabbling over money was all the rage for TV producers at one point, Golden Balls of course but they somehow went even worse with Divided randomly hosted by former tennis player and GMTV host Andrew Castle!
JA
I enjoyed Space Cadets myself, though it didn't seem to be recieved that well, sadly.
One thing I remember on the Channel 4 website's forum for that show, there were several people insisting it was a double bluff and they were all in on it and that would be revealed on the final episode, and they were preparing to gloat at how stupid everyone was for believing it ("see you tonight" they were saying on the morning of the last episode). Funnily enough none of them ever posted again after the final episode when no such reveal ever happened.
One thing I remember on the Channel 4 website's forum for that show, there were several people insisting it was a double bluff and they were all in on it and that would be revealed on the final episode, and they were preparing to gloat at how stupid everyone was for believing it ("see you tonight" they were saying on the morning of the last episode). Funnily enough none of them ever posted again after the final episode when no such reveal ever happened.
SW
Well, they did do this one - http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Art_School
Not quite the same, but it got in the papers because John Humphrys spoke a lot about how contrived it all was.
I've said this before, but a few weeks before it happened, Media Guardian did a story about how C4's schedule for that week was full of TBAs and speculating if that was because they were doing a run of Celebrity Big Brother but keeping it a secret. I sometimes miss Media Guardian although clearly that article is pretty much your average DigitalSpy thread now.
Did another show come from there later. I do strongly remember a reality show being filmed there but didn't think it was Shattered (though I was completely wrong on the location of that). So many one-off reality series seemed to be churned out in the mid-noughties they do all somewhat blend into one.
Well, they did do this one - http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Art_School
Not quite the same, but it got in the papers because John Humphrys spoke a lot about how contrived it all was.
I enjoyed Space Cadets myself, though it didn't seem to be recieved that well, sadly.
I've said this before, but a few weeks before it happened, Media Guardian did a story about how C4's schedule for that week was full of TBAs and speculating if that was because they were doing a run of Celebrity Big Brother but keeping it a secret. I sometimes miss Media Guardian although clearly that article is pretty much your average DigitalSpy thread now.
BR
Loving the BB3 ep - probably the most "normal" ep so far, even with a big twist in the middle. You look back at these very early series and realise every cast member seemed to contribute something, which was lost a few years later when we began seeing 20+ housemates a series.
They've stitched a couple of edited eps together too - the Day 15/16 one, now jumping to Day 19.
They've stitched a couple of edited eps together too - the Day 15/16 one, now jumping to Day 19.
GO
I noticed Karl Warner, head of E4, was a researcher on that series. Shame we can't see all the credits of all these episodes, a hell of a lot of people (perhaps most?) working in TV entertainment at senior level today did at least one series of Big Brother, whether on C4 or C5. It was a great way of learning how to make entertainment.