17 April 2023
Having opened in January 1956, the BBC’s Midland television studios are finally complete
11 April 2022
A visit to the Scenery Block – the first part of the new BBC Television Centre
10 January 2022
Work is well underway on a building to replace ITN House on Wells Street in London
17 May 2021
Jack Robertson reminisces about the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, once a thriving theatre and now, in 1962, home of Scottish Television
17 February 2021
Is Radio Caroline coming back in 1970, in television form?
10 March 2020
From chromakey to cycloramas, the jargon of television production in 1975 is explained here
19 November 2018
Is Pebble Mill a white elephant? It has been, but that might be about to change says the Daily Telegraph in 1972
7 November 2017
From the North: Tom Hargreaves remembers a tour around Granada’s studios in 1967
17 November 2016
The BBC Handbook for 1961 celebrates the opening of the first studio at Television Centre
29 March 2016
The handover from the Alpha Studios in Aston to the new Paradise Centre in Birmingham in 1969
3 August 2015
Practical Television in 1958 looks at Granada’s branch studio in London
20 July 2015
Practical Television in March 1962 looks in-depth at Westward’s almost-complete studio complex
17 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the song and dance campaign to save ATV and Elstree studios
4 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the history and development of ATV’s Elstree studios
4 October 2010
The second part of Roddy Buxton’s analysis sees ATV Network, ATV Midlands, Daybreak and Central at Elstree
17 August 2010
How Lenton Lane, Central’s studios in Nottingham, went from nothing to something and back to nothing – by someone who was there.
15 August 2010
How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.
1 March 2007
1997: time for a final trip around ATV Centre before all the gear is sold off.
30 October 2005
Glenn Aylett details Glasgow’s new and existing BBC and independent television production centres