Studios

Having opened in January 1956, the BBC’s Midland television studios are finally complete

The life of a floor manager in BBCtv is a tough one…

A visit to the Scenery Block – the first part of the new BBC Television Centre

The Wales and West contractor’s new studios have opened

Work is well underway on a building to replace ITN House on Wells Street in London

Jack Robertson reminisces about the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, once a thriving theatre and now, in 1962, home of Scottish Television

Is Radio Caroline coming back in 1970, in television form?

From chromakey to cycloramas, the jargon of television production in 1975 is explained here

Is Pebble Mill a white elephant? It has been, but that might be about to change says the Daily Telegraph in 1972

The TVTimes in 1967 looks back over 40 years of the Elstree studios

A gallery of recent pictures from MediaCityUK in Salford

From the North: Tom Hargreaves remembers a tour around Granada’s studios in 1967

The BBC Handbook for 1961 celebrates the opening of the first studio at Television Centre

The handover from the Alpha Studios in Aston to the new Paradise Centre in Birmingham in 1969

Practical Television in 1958 looks at Granada’s branch studio in London

Practical Television in March 1962 looks in-depth at Westward’s almost-complete studio complex

Having decent studio space: from pride to an embarrassment in 60 years

Rob Williams takes a tour of Television South

Wandering round the BBC’s former Manchester studios

Roddy Buxton on the song and dance campaign to save ATV and Elstree studios

Roddy Buxton on the end of ATV and Central’s Birmingham citadel

Roddy Buxton on the history and development of ATV’s Elstree studios

The second part of Roddy Buxton’s analysis sees ATV Network, ATV Midlands, Daybreak and Central at Elstree

How Lenton Lane, Central’s studios in Nottingham, went from nothing to something and back to nothing – by someone who was there.

How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.

Extending the studios as Central launches

Roddy Buxton hits the 4th Floor

Our exploration of ATV Centre continues

Goodbye to Broad Street

East Midlands television centre

ATV’s Television Garden

Roddy Buxton explores the Brookside set

Central News East… or not

1997: time for a final trip around ATV Centre before all the gear is sold off.

Glenn Aylett details Glasgow’s new and existing BBC and independent television production centres

TV from Northam comes to an end

From the Euston Road to the banks of the Thames

TV from Northam spans a lifetime

The earliest architecture of television

Regional studios and London monoliths

Tricks of the trade exposed

Television moves in on the cinema and theatre

The state of the UK film industry

Set design makes television

Say goodbye to ATV Centre and hello to oblivion