SP
X Factor would work in a theatre wouldn't it? Availability would be an issue I guess.
UB
Don't think it really fits with the theme of the show considering the acts will have already performed infront of a full arena at bootcamp. An arena is the only option outside of a studio if you ask me.
X Factor would work in a theatre wouldn't it? Availability would be an issue I guess.
Don't think it really fits with the theme of the show considering the acts will have already performed infront of a full arena at bootcamp. An arena is the only option outside of a studio if you ask me.
BR
In it's heyday taking it out on the road for the live shows would have been great - perhaps setting up in 5 arenas for 2 weeks each. I suspect though the budget would have been curtailed somewhat with the recent deal (well, based on ratings it should have been), so I think a studio is the only option, and studio options are becoming more and more limited.
JK
I think X Factor will move to Elstree Studios next year. There are two huge studios, Stages 1 and 2. These are named the George Lucas stages. Both are 15,770 Sq Ft in size and the BBC lease one of them for Strictly Come Dancing. The other one is there for anyone to rent. X Factor would be idiots not to use this stage. They only do live shows from early October until mid December anyway, it is close to London, any other options such as Pinewood make it further from London.
There is a feeling among BBC staff that they do not want to bring Strictly back to Television Centre's Studio 1. Studio 1 is just over 10,000 Sq Ft, this is around 5,000 Sq Ft smaller than the stage the use now since 2013. Plus it has been mentioned the facilities at the redeveloped Television Centre will not be up to the standard and quality of Elstree, so I do not see them moving Strictly back in 2017.
There is a feeling among BBC staff that they do not want to bring Strictly back to Television Centre's Studio 1. Studio 1 is just over 10,000 Sq Ft, this is around 5,000 Sq Ft smaller than the stage the use now since 2013. Plus it has been mentioned the facilities at the redeveloped Television Centre will not be up to the standard and quality of Elstree, so I do not see them moving Strictly back in 2017.
JK
X Factor would simply not suit Studio 1 at the London Studios. First, that studio is rented out to many productions in the course of a week, making ITV Studios a lot of money, for example the Graham Norton Show usually tape there on a Wednesday/Thursday. Alan Carr Chatty Man also use it at times, along with Have I Got News For You and Jonathan Ross Show, however some of these use Studio 2 also.
The large balcony tiered seating which is a key element of Studio 1 also hinders X Factor.
The London Studios is just far too popular and profitable with other productions using it in one week, for ITV to stop renting it out, and have a ITV production such as X Factor in the studio for October - December.
The large balcony tiered seating which is a key element of Studio 1 also hinders X Factor.
The London Studios is just far too popular and profitable with other productions using it in one week, for ITV to stop renting it out, and have a ITV production such as X Factor in the studio for October - December.
SW
The X Factor isn't an in-house ITV production. In any case, the studio ownership is unrelated to who produces the programmes, it has to be booked and paid for in the same way. I remember The Bob Mills Show, the Larry-Sanders-but-real chat show in the nineties, having to move studios one week because their normal studio at The London Studios was being used for a BBC programme. And that was an LWT production.
The London Studios is just far too popular and profitable with other productions using it in one week, for ITV to stop renting it out, and have a ITV production such as X Factor in the studio for October - December.
The X Factor isn't an in-house ITV production. In any case, the studio ownership is unrelated to who produces the programmes, it has to be booked and paid for in the same way. I remember The Bob Mills Show, the Larry-Sanders-but-real chat show in the nineties, having to move studios one week because their normal studio at The London Studios was being used for a BBC programme. And that was an LWT production.
NI
X Factor doesn't necessarily need to come from a to studio, it can easily be broadcast from a soundstage using a mobile broadcast unit.
As someone has already stated, rumours are the team at SCD don't want to downsize to TC1 and having two huge programs with live audiences at the same time in the George Lucas stage(s), would be a logistical nightmare.
As someone has already stated, rumours are the team at SCD don't want to downsize to TC1 and having two huge programs with live audiences at the same time in the George Lucas stage(s), would be a logistical nightmare.
HC
And confuse viewers even more, the studio they had to use was over at - BBC Television Centre.
I think that was the show where Danny Baker was booked in no time at all as a guest, because he'd just been sacked from Five Live for some comments he made during the weekday spin-off of the original
6-0-6.
The team had been trying to book guests all week, with limited success, leading to Mills to say to the production team, just to forget planning and book whoever was in the news on the day of recording.
I remember The Bob Mills Show, the Larry-Sanders-but-real chat show in the nineties, having to move studios one week because their normal studio at The London Studios was being used for a BBC programme. And that was an LWT production.
And confuse viewers even more, the studio they had to use was over at - BBC Television Centre.
I think that was the show where Danny Baker was booked in no time at all as a guest, because he'd just been sacked from Five Live for some comments he made during the weekday spin-off of the original
6-0-6.
The team had been trying to book guests all week, with limited success, leading to Mills to say to the production team, just to forget planning and book whoever was in the news on the day of recording.
SW
Oh, I can talk about The Show all day, it was a remarkable series. I wrote about it a few years ago - http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/indexfaee.html?page_id=427
Your memories are actually of two different episodes, they had topical guests every week and the Bake was one of them, helped by him being mates with Mills and other members of the production team who he'd worked with when he was at LWT (although after he left LWT he says in his book they were a bit cool towards him, and when he appeared in a panto produced by some crook who ran off with all the money, he says that the biggest embarrassment was that they featured it on Police 5 on LWT and didn't even ask him to appear).
The other bit was on the last show where some guest pulled out right at the last minute, so they had to do a panicked ring round of everyone in their address book, and within a few minutes they had about a dozen people all willing to appear, so Mills said "If we do this again, we won't book any guests in advance, we'll just phone them up an hour before the show". I remember Jeremy Beadle was the standby guest in the end.
The team had been trying to book guests all week, with limited success, leading to Mills to say to the production team, just to forget planning and book whoever was in the news on the day of recording.
Oh, I can talk about The Show all day, it was a remarkable series. I wrote about it a few years ago - http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/indexfaee.html?page_id=427
Your memories are actually of two different episodes, they had topical guests every week and the Bake was one of them, helped by him being mates with Mills and other members of the production team who he'd worked with when he was at LWT (although after he left LWT he says in his book they were a bit cool towards him, and when he appeared in a panto produced by some crook who ran off with all the money, he says that the biggest embarrassment was that they featured it on Police 5 on LWT and didn't even ask him to appear).
The other bit was on the last show where some guest pulled out right at the last minute, so they had to do a panicked ring round of everyone in their address book, and within a few minutes they had about a dozen people all willing to appear, so Mills said "If we do this again, we won't book any guests in advance, we'll just phone them up an hour before the show". I remember Jeremy Beadle was the standby guest in the end.
ME
As has been said as great as studio 1 at The London Studio is for more traditional saturday night fare e.g. Saturday Night Takeaway, it would look really bad compared to Fountain for X Factor - it's all a bit too square and as also mentioned the balcony seating is a big limitation. I would have said Elstree was the most likely location due to proximity to London, but obviously if they can't manage both Strictly and X Factor on the same site then that's a no go (I don't see why, Elstree is a huge spread out site compared to many TV centres, I'm sure it'd be a case of if there's a will there's a way...they were crammed into Fountain backstage with portacabins and the like)
HC
It's not the space at Elstree that's the issue under discussion - it's the fact that SCD and X Factor would end up using different ends of the George Lucas Sound Stage - at the same time.
Not sure what the sound proofing is like to split up the GLS stage. Don't think it's got floor to grid soundproof doors down the middle (unlike, ironically, Fountain Studios)
Not sure what the sound proofing is like to split up the GLS stage. Don't think it's got floor to grid soundproof doors down the middle (unlike, ironically, Fountain Studios)