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IS
Inspector Sands
WillPS posted:
essentially Lenton Lane were the most modern studios in Europe when they opened, but union practices at the time meant that most of it was not used until they all-but-closed Broad Street in 1993, and by then it was relatively out-of-date.

Surely it got used a lot in the 1980's, most of Central's biggest programmes came were made there.


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My impression with the remaining studio(s?) in Lenton Lane is that it's only a matter of time before they too are lost. They've barely ever been used for the last 8 years and I suspect they just don't have anything better to do with them right now.

I thought there was only 1 left as a studio and that was used for teaching rather than being hired out as a TV studio. The building itself probably won't be going soon I'd have thought
BU
buster
Johnny83 posted:
buster posted:
Johnny83 posted:
IIRC didn't Carlton London have a better relationship with LWT than Thames did?


Yes, they rented a fair bit of space in the tower. By the time of the ITV merger you had the slightly odd situation where Carlton's scheduling and planning team were on the South Bank but LWT's were over at Grays Inn Road with the Granada sales operation!


I see so even though it was LWT's building they were in another building (ITN's?) bloody hell that must have been confusing



Well strictly speaking ITN don't own the building and haven't done for some time, so they're renting the space from the same owners that ITV are. One of the main flaws in Greg Dyke's consortium bid for ITV in 2006 was that it planned to sell off 200 GIR, a building that ITV do not own and never have!

Another thing to remember about 200 Grays Inn Road is that from mid-1993 it was the home of the ITV Network Centre as well as Granada sales (which is how the planning elements of LWT ended up there too, I believe). ITV still have a few floors here - sales, online, broadcast and a few other bits and pieces.
NW
nwtv2003
Col posted:
The Manchester Studios/Quay Street (for however long's left)


End of next year I believe, not sure when Regional News, Countdown, University Challenge and Jeremy Kyle are going, but when Corrie goes that I understand is the death knell for Quay Street.
IS
Inspector Sands
buster posted:
Another thing to remember about 200 Grays Inn Road is that from mid-1993 it was the home of the ITV Network Centre as well as Granada sales (which is how the planning elements of LWT ended up there too, I believe). ITV still have a few floors here - sales, online, broadcast and a few other bits and pieces.

Westcountry had an office there in it's early days too.

Granada were dotted around quite a bit, they had offices just round the corner from the London Studios too, this was where the Granada Sky channels were based.
BU
buster
Inspector Sands posted:
buster posted:
Another thing to remember about 200 Grays Inn Road is that from mid-1993 it was the home of the ITV Network Centre as well as Granada sales (which is how the planning elements of LWT ended up there too, I believe). ITV still have a few floors here - sales, online, broadcast and a few other bits and pieces.

Westcountry had an office there in it's early days too.

Granada were dotted around quite a bit, they had offices just round the corner from the London Studios too, this was where the Granada Sky channels were based.


Yes I was based there a short while - offices on Hatfields, was still covered in Granada Plus/LWT etc logos in 2007 when we left! Think it's been disposed of now.
IS
Inspector Sands
buster posted:
Yes I was based there a short while - offices on Hatfields, was still covered in Granada Plus/LWT etc logos in 2007 when we left! Think it's been disposed of now.

I had an interview there many many years ago and the sofa I sat on for it was from the set of Surprise Surprise.

Talksport is based in Hatfields but a different building I assume
BU
buster
Inspector Sands posted:
buster posted:
Yes I was based there a short while - offices on Hatfields, was still covered in Granada Plus/LWT etc logos in 2007 when we left! Think it's been disposed of now.

I had an interview there many many years ago and the sofa I sat on for it was from the set of Surprise Surprise.

Talksport is based in Hatfields but a different building I assume


Yeah when we were there there was a huge wall full of Men and Motors "talent" photos, hugely out of date (M&M was still going at this point but had dropped all the slightly dodgy programming a few years previously).

Yes Talksport was a few doors down.
WP
WillPS
buster posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
buster posted:
Another thing to remember about 200 Grays Inn Road is that from mid-1993 it was the home of the ITV Network Centre as well as Granada sales (which is how the planning elements of LWT ended up there too, I believe). ITV still have a few floors here - sales, online, broadcast and a few other bits and pieces.

Westcountry had an office there in it's early days too.

Granada were dotted around quite a bit, they had offices just round the corner from the London Studios too, this was where the Granada Sky channels were based.


Yes I was based there a short while - offices on Hatfields, was still covered in Granada Plus/LWT etc logos in 2007 when we left! Think it's been disposed of now.


Awesome nostalgia! Is there any pictures?

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Westy2
Jez posted:
Westy2 posted:
Jez posted:
623058 posted:
Jez posted:
Also, A Country Practice on HTV was shown in the 5.10pm slot from 1994 until it ended in 1999. Before that I believe A Country Practice was in the 3.25pm slot between the afternoon news and CITV.


HTV played out the last episode of CP same day News at Ten got axed.

Nearly all the ITV companies completed the Sullivans in late 1988 or early 1989 except for HTV, and Scottish Television which took until 1993 to complete the series.

When Westcountry Television took over from TSW, they initially dropped The Sullivans from their schedule, only to bring it back a while later due to popular demand. The was short-lived, however, and Westcountry then dropped the series completely, meaning that viewers in the South West never saw the entire series (this similarly happened with The Young Doctors).


The Sullivans was dropped in a few regions - ATV, TSW/Westcountry and Yorkshire never saw it all. On HTV we were lucky we saw all the aussie soaps until the end but were one of the last region, if not the last, to complete ACP and The Sullivans. We finished Sons and Daughters in 1991 and Prisoner in 1996 so about average in terms of how quickly we completed them.

ACP was all over the place - initially 1 hour episodes once as week (on just a Friday for a long period but may have bene other days), then when Sons and Daughters ended in 1991 ACP replaced that Wed-Fri at 3.25pm and for the first time was shown in the half hourly eps like other regions did, then it was increased to 5 times a week, still at 3.25pm, at some point during 1992, then moved back to 1 hour episodes on a Friday at the start of 1993 as Blockbusters moved from evening to daytime so there was no longer a daily slot for it, then when Blockbusters ended it replaced it at 4 or 5 half hourly eps a week again, then from 1994 moved to 5.10pm but was on anything between 2 and 5 days a week, mostly 2 days.

Bascially if there was something better to show, or if the slots were needed for proper regional programmes then ACP lost slots and they showed it just a few times a week. Other regions seemed to treat it better, Thames/Carlton for example seemed to like it and showed it 5 days a week for a large part of its run.

Yes I remember the end of ACP coincided with the end of the original News At 10. I think they timed ACP to end this date by increasing the number of eps a week from 2 to 4 in Jan 1999. The following Monday Home and Away moved to 5.05pm, regional programme were at 5.30pm and the news hour was 6pm-7pm as it is now.


ATV did show The Sullivans. Central didn't ISTR, so it must have been axed in the Midlands no later than December 1981!


I believe ATV dropped it before the end of 1981


Having a dig around You Tube.

Any idea when these got shown in the UK? (I'm guessing late 70's?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI12_n8AICQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSifzgRM5SQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VNul1kMu9M
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A former member
Westy2 posted:


Having a dig around You Tube.Any idea when these got shown in the UK? (I'm guessing late 70's?)

SOLO ONE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI12_n8AICQ&feature=related

Doctor down Under: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSifzgRM5SQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VNul1kMu9M


* SOLO ONE, 1977, 1978 and 1979, not network BUT not all stations broadcast the series. Who did not broadcast it?

* Doctor down Under: wiki say 11 January 1981. Load of CRAP: ( now changed)

It starting being broadcast in Summer 1980, it was not Networked. ATV and westward had it 17.15, Yorkshire at it 10.30, while Grampian, STV HTV, Granada and southern had it 19.30, it seems Thames did not broadcast it but LWT did in Jan 1981? Any ideas if it was on ealry?

* Chopper Squad , Weekend filler by many station from 1979, again all over the place....
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The first five series (Doctor in the House, Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge, Doctor at Sea and Doctor on the Go), were produced by London Weekend Television between 1969 and 1977.


So Why did it take LWT over a year to screen the The series (Doctor Down Under)? and why was it place in the worse slots that "END Of part one" 3.30pm Sunday.
CR
ColonelRed
What were the rules about networking when the schools were on holiday ? Were companies able to network between 0930 and 1200, or did the commercials feed still happen

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