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(September 2003)

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Andrew Founding member
Who's got the biggest TV studio in the UK? Is it at BBC TV Centre, London Studios or somewhere else?
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MrTomServo
Andrew posted:
Who's got the biggest TV studio in the UK? Is it at BBC TV Centre, London Studios or somewhere else?


The largest studio might be at Leavesden in Hertsforshire, if I'm not mistaken. It's not strictly a television studio, though.

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Leavesden Studios, that's where they filmed the first series of Fame Academy.

It's HUGE!!!!
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Hatton Cross
Patrice posted:
Leavesden Studios, that's where they filmed the first series of Fame Academy.

It's HUGE!!!!


If Leavesden Studios is otherwise known as Shepperton studios, then you are correct - however I thought the largest studio/sound stage is the James Bond stage at Pinewood.

The largest purpose built studio for television in the country is either TC1 (at TV Center) or Studio 1 at LWT - Not sure which..
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Possibly the studio at Fountain TV in Wembley - it is 2 studios with a partition wall that can be romoved to make 1 big one. At one point it was the biggest in the UK
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fanoftv
Speaking of tv studios. Are this mornings windows really windows, as they looked out of them today and waved. And when Alison was outside you could see long black windows in relation to where the this morning studio would be.

So would this studio be a converted office or would they have built windows into the side of the studio?
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Steve D
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If Leavesden Studios is otherwise known as Shepperton studios, then you are correct - however I thought the largest studio/sound stage is the James Bond stage at Pinewood.


No, Leavesden is north west of London and is a converted Rolls Royce factory. It was converted especially for the production of one of the new Bond films - Goldeneye I think - because the usual 007 stage at Pinewood was fully booked.
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fanoftv posted:
Speaking of tv studios. Are this mornings windows really windows, as they looked out of them today and waved. And when Alison was outside you could see long black windows in relation to where the this morning studio would be.

So would this studio be a converted office or would they have built windows into the side of the studio?


There are windows, but they are tinted otherwise they would be too bright for the cameras. Hence they aren't so easy to look into than out of
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fanoftv
Why when they just zoomed in were there like pixel things. Is this to do with the glass being tinted?

And is London Today/Tonight's studio real windows?

Were all of these studios built with windows?
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Pete Founding member
Hatton Cross posted:
The largest purpose built studio for television in the country is either TC1 (at TV Center) or Studio 1 at LWT - Not sure which..


Isn't Studio 5 at Tyne Tees bigger than TC1?

and it's TV *Centre*
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fanoftv posted:

And is London Today/Tonight's studio real windows?


Yes.

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Were all of these studios built with windows?


Yes, the London Tonight one was built on a piece of roof specially for the launch of LNN. The This Morning one was used for something else and converted into a studio.

These things would have to be specially built. To take a studio and knock a hole into it would be problematic and the chances of having one in the right location would be very rare
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According to http://www.wembley.towntalk.co.uk/about.shtml and http://www.brent.gov.uk/tourism.nsf/0/2f9e227ecb1cc03580256c36004c0957?OpenDocument

Fountain Studios in Wembley has 'the biggest purpose built Television Studio in the country'

The Fountain website is under reconstruction so no exact details.

Studio 1 at BBC TV Centre is larger than the biggest studio at the London Studios

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