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FE
Felek
Holby City ED

The building on the left is the one used at the end of the title sequence, and is usually in the background of the exterior shots.
TE
tellywatcher
Hmmm, think it's probably Portillo, looking from the back.

Anyway... moving further down, could this be Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp sitting on the wall?
PT
Put The Telly On
Shame Maidstone Studios aren't available in streetview yet as is the rest of the South East (below London) at the moment.
IS
Inspector Sands
Matt posted:
ITV / ITN HQ Gray's Inn Road

Fountain Studios (Home of The X Factor, Pop Idol, Britain's Got Talent, Friends (London Episodes) etc, also - I found out recently - the original home of Associated Rediffusion and, following the hand-over, temporary home for LWT)


Indeed, compare this view

With these from the excellent TV Studio History
http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/images/wembley%20ext%201-nov%201961%20450p.jpg

http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/images/wembley%20LWT.JPG

http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/images/wembley%20lee%20usual%20angle%20450p.jpg
IS
Inspector Sands
davidlees posted:


Although the studios and technical areas themselves are in a couple of warehouses around the back which haven't been done by Google but look like this on Microsoft's Birds Eye View
IS
Inspector Sands
HQ of Freemantle Media/Talkback Thames/RTL also where Channel 5 broadcasts from

BBC London and home of the BBC Trust

Turner House, home of CNN, Cartoon Network etc

Chiswick Park, home of lots of channels including Disney, Discovery and ITV
JR
jrothwell97
Going back to the Paxman/Clarkson/Portillo saga, from the same shot as posted earlier, just panned around a hundred degrees to the left (just behind the bus stop...) http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bbc+television+centre&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=14.723988,39.550781&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.511433,-0.224729&panoid=7YSmIDtoeA_xP2zF4IdZTQ&cbp=12,210.99424458394435,,2,14.46321279800479&ll=51.511347,-0.224705&spn=0,359.986224&t=h&z=16

That is Clarkson. So that narrows the other man down to Paxman or Portillo, and I think Portillo.
PE
Pete Founding member
thats too thin to be clarkson
AS
Aston
Just because it's by TVC, doesn't mean it's anyone famous. There are literally thousands of people working there, it could quite as easily be a member of staff...
JC
JonathanC
With whoever posted the ITV Anglia one, if you go round the to the other side of the building, you can see their giant satellite dish with the ITV logo on it and some text.

I only know this as I may have accidentally driven in to there once. Whoops.

..not in to the satellite dish itself, that'd get me in trouble.
ST
stevek2


that is the back of devs and number 12 beside the kabin, noticed the street view software also blurs some street signage it thinks is number plates, ie black letters on white or yellow backgrounds so street signs and divertion signs get blurred as well

I'm surprised they didn't get our friend Jez in the shot Wink

the 'clarkson shots' have now dissapeared so makes you wonder Confused
AD
Adam
Tyne Tees City Road (front)

...and from behind (notice where the old logo has been removed from studio 5)

Their new studios at the Watermark

BBC in Fenham

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