TV studio buildings.

I always thought that studio A was mothballed "permanently" when the 3sixtymedia venture was founded. All BBC Manchester productions then being filmed at Quay Street?

BBC TVC. Taken a few years back a little while after the car bombing which runined some of the frontage. It's all been replaced now with a wavey roof which scares me and a big revolving door.

Isn't that the VIP guest foyer? Only when I saw Little Britain filmed about this time last year -there was access to that area but I wasn't sure whether to enter or not.

No this is the plebs' entrance (underneath the news centre). VIPs enter through the barriers and drive up to the centre of the curve of the question mark (where the fountain was) and go into the stage door entrance. It's the one the contestants on National Lottery Jet Set run out from.

James

Indeed, and not just for GMR but there are also national studios too. I heard a while back that the 2 sets of studios were leages apart in terms of facilities but I don't know if that's still true!

Neither of those are the case.

1. NBH has more than one TV studio. There is the regional news studio used for North West Tonight, and also the small digital studio built for BBC Choice/Knowledge production, which survived the mothballing. This is now used for The Heaven and Earth show. The large studio has been mothballed I believe - but the studio space is still usable as a four-waller.

2. If the BBC used 3SixtyMedia's facilities they would be using 3SixtyMedia's facilities. Although they are on the Granada site, they are operated as a joint venture with the BBC - and aren't "Granada's facilities" any more. I suspect Granada would be very happy if the 3Sixty facilities were fully utilised, and making them a profit, rather than empty and costing them money in lost income...

In reality, if the BBC do move CBBC and Sport up to Manchester (the governors have still yet to approve this - and AIUI it depends on a licence fee increase of a decent level) they will need a lot of facilities, and the existing NBH and 3Sixty operations are probably not big enough.

If all CBBC and Sport production moved up you'd need :

3 x Presentation studios (one for CBBC on One/Two, one for CBBC Channel, one for CBeebies)
1 x Medium production studio (Blue Peter)
1 x Small production studio (XChange)
1 x Broom cupboard (Newsround Digital)

1 (probably 2) x small production studio (Sport)

Plus capacity to make further CBBC studio shows - like those currently made in the bought out capacity at BBC Elstree (Bamzooki, Tikkabilla etc.), and other TVC studios.

There might be scope to share studios between sport and kids though.

Here are a few pictures of the new BBC Scotland studios which are currently under construction in Glasgow:

This is what it looks like now:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Get13/pq.jpg

This is what it will look like when it is finished:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Get13/absd.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Get13/02.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Get13/9df538ef.jpg

This is what the interior will look like:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Get13/87af215a.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Get13/b45570c8.jpg

What a waste of licence fee money that is, can't they build cheap buildings, rather then start of the art ones

I assume you mean "state of the art", but in any event I'm not sure I agree.

Apart from the technical equipment (which costs what it costs), the building is steel and glass. Pretty standard building materials these days, and considerably cheaper than a stone clad building.

Yes State of the art, it looks very fancy it has to be said, can I ask how much this is costing, it looks expensive!

I'm sure I replied to this thread earlier. oh well.

I think it's a horrible looking building. It has no character and is just a big glass brick. It's plain, dull and just rubbish IMO.

well I would agree it's rubbish.