New BBC Services studios

Don't they share it with newsround showbiz, and i presume they do the CSO's on the morning and lunchtime summaries from their too.

Aren't the CBBC and Xchange sets the same space, except they have the wall that divides them, and have the opening to access either from the other. I presume newsround is somewhere through the doors.

The restaurant block (is the one that i was trying to describe), would be an ideal location to bring CBBC together.
I know that CBBC on One & Two use the garden (as did the channel earlier this year usually on a saturday or sunday afternoon when they would have been in studio 9, as they had problems of what to do with the bug like sculptues as they are painted with the red pattern on one side and the purple on the other, and the channel use blue.), but the CBBC Channel could use this more, perhaps having a high balconey built onto the current restaurant block so that even if CBBC on one/two are using the garden, they could present from their, and look down on them.

One of my favourite weeks was when they were redesigning and decorating studio 9 the week before the bugs. Michael had left, and Angellica went behind the scenes of different shows on different days. It was quite nice to see it.

Yeah that was good that week. I liked the old Yellow and Black idents other then the ones on now, What happend to Emlin was it? he took over Otis, seemed to me like he was only there for about a month and then went.

No more than any other part of the building, but as Dan says it would give them their own seperate building based around the exsisting studio 9 and BP garden



IIRC it used to be a make-up store



It's kitchens and plant for the restaraunt block

You can't hire any studio - several are permanately used by various programmes or departments, others would be no good for general use.



BBC Resources is the company that own runs studios and facilities such as Post Production, although they aren't responsible for as much as they once were - Resources in network radio, news and the regions were merged back into the respective departments several years ago.

BBCBroadcast is concerned with channel playout and presentation, it also has a section that makes trails/adverts/promotional material.



Yes, if they said that BBC programmes had free range of whatever they wanted they'd be no point in having a programme budget.

Well, they would still need a budget for sets, presenters, guests (if any), crew members, all staff, etc. You'd just deduct the price that they would pay to hire the studio (if a BBC programme) from the programme budget, so that all equipment and studios are effectively free for BBC programmes to use.

Thanks for all that - very interesting.

Good point about technology making things take up less space - I suppose this has freed up a lot of studios/made room for new ones.

They must be really struggling with BH totally closed!

So what exactly is the diffrence between a programme paying for the studio.... and the cost of the studio being deducted from the programmes budget?

It's not totally closed. The original part is closed, but the 2 modern extensions are still open. They are far bigger and had most of the studios in them anyway.