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Sinister looking layout. A bit like government gchq in Cheltenham! Big brother stuff!

Television Centre was the epicentre of creativity as it brought together highly talented producers, directors, actors and technicians who shared their craft to produce high quality dramas, comedies, documentaries, news and current affairs programmes and variety shows. What we now have is an insipid industry churning out low budget, low quality content. Technology may change but creativity needs to be nurtured and supported through the kind of collaboration that Television Centre provided.

I visited the TV centre many years ago not in it but looked around the front and back as far as was allowed. Glad I did now, I also found the BBC TV Theatre as well.

Is this a reupload? I'm sure I watched this a couple of weeks ago.

Fascinating. Skill sets consigned to history.

All swept away a few years later by digital development.

Has acton rehearsal rooms gone to ? And what happened to sheperds bush theatre?

Luxury flats! Luxury Flats! Luxury Flats! Who are these people that can afford them and how many of them are there? Don't listen to the politicians, there's plenty of money around.

I found these online. Was the bbc now fit for purpose, or a drain on the licence fee payer?: The BBC reportedly pays around £12 million per year in rent for three studios and stage 6 at the Television Centre in rent for the 3 studios (Studioworks) and stage 6 (BBC Studios). The BBC's move to Salford was budgeted at £942 million, which included the cost of the relocation and the operating costs for the Salford site up to 2030. The BBC was able to manage the move within budget while maintaining broadcast continuity. MediaCity in Salford costs the BBC £3m more a year to run than the national average for a similar building The budget analysis lists costs including £170m on rent by 2030, £218m on new TV studio services and £15m on new radio and orchestra studios. With costs including a lease which is estimated to be £50m, £37m on fitting out the buildings, plus a further £64m on "people-related…

All I remember on the final night of Television Centre was the programme they put on with numerous figures from over the years, all describing the choice as a terrible mistake.

There was i know other offices nearby on the road that doctor who used and sheperds bush theatre so they owned a lot round there

Remember the days like me, when the studio P A said , change set as soon as you can studio, we're on Telecine, hundred pounds a minute ! The signal was piped to EMI at Hayes for recording in those days!🧐

Why isn't this listed? White City station named after it. Why wasn't it turned into flats? What happened to Wood Lane station and its entrance just nearby?

What studio is good morning Britain shot in? I guess the arguement as well is so much bbc stuff is made by production companies and location shooting is done so much it’s more economically viable

The BBC cannot help itself, it’s run by complete idiots now, there haven’t made a decent programme in over 20 years.

I worked for make up running the make up girls mirrors and all there make up equipment to different studios or outside broadcast I was based right under the restaurants and looked outside to the blue Peter garden the stars that had to come in threw the ground floor up to the restaurants was a eye opener great memories

Oh my word. Hadn't realised it had changed that much. Main question is what happened to the BBC club in TVC? Spent many happy evenings there in the 90s.

It’s sad and disappointing what’s happened to it I used to work there in the Comedy Department in the 90s and Early 00s yes they still have studios but it’s not the same most of them are gone the BBC has moved to Manchester and mostly Scotland now the memories will stay with me forever the BBC shouldn’t have sold it they could’ve redeveloped it

Absolutely criminal !

Great video

Thanks for taking the time to make this update for us Jamie. I never worked at TVC but I got to accompany a colleague (at around the time you made your 2013 video) on a tour. We could go anywhere we wanted. Walking into an empty studio through the doors to the ring road was one of the weirdest emotions I have ever experienced. It was complete sadness for what we were losing but when I started listing all of the programmes I grew up with in my head it became overwhelming. It was the silence and complete lack of anybody that was most amazing. Nostalgia is a strange thing. Who knows what the right or wrong decision will turn out to be? One thing we do know, is that you have made two brilliant, high quality films that will be watched for many years to come. Thanks again.

I am pretty sure This Morning is filmed there as I remember seeing outside shots and noticing the new outside and the television centre frontage which of course was confusing given it is an ITV show!

Ghastly overdeveloped site. I wonder who actually pays for those people to have the ‘privilege of living in these ‘Luxury Flats' ?

Thanks for putting this video together quite Bittersweet seeing the changes, I worked in the doughnut /ring corridor for a week or so installing optic fibre on the ground level and basement (lots of fun graffiti) area in 2006. Having grown up watching the beeb and being familiar with the building and studios it was quite an experience being amongst the working throng, standouts were meeting Andy peters, seeing Jeremy Paxman and Graham Norton who was filming strictly dance fever, I was up a pair of ladders working above a false ceiling and when I descended I was surrounded by 30 or so young women wearing leotards doing stretches. It’s nice to see some of the flourish has been retained, I especially liked the main foyer in the doughnut as I was leaving Jordan turned up in a horrid pink limousine…

You said there was 8 studios, what happened to studio 9 aka 90s cbbc has that been demolished and what about the blue Peter garden?

So the Blue Peter garden was destroyed/ built on too,?

Another Dinosaur takes its place in History.... So long and take all those Skeletons in the Closet with Ya....

been years since i left london it is a shame the creative talent has gone .... but regards the building i think the development is sympathetic and stylish ..... it is a remarkable building in its design from the 60s .......

Fascinating, thank you for this! Growing up I dreamed of working here. The huge campus-style TV studios (Including regional ITV) are still exactly the kind of environment I would love to work in. Alas, I don't think you would find that outside of movie studios (And most of them seem to be converted warehouses rather than planned studio complexes)

I work in a TV stuxio (outside London), and we've had very little business since early 2023 - the BBC were probably right to sell off this space when they did!

The spirit of auntie Beeb will always be here ❤❤

Its sad to see. I visited here back in 1992 when I got invited to visit CBBC. memories of childhood ❤❤❤

But where's the Blue Peter garden and Petra's statue ?

On the bright side it does at least address in part the scarcity of luxury flats that plagues contemporary London.

Good riddance. BBC should solely charge their own viewers and stop leeching off of other channels viewers. If they can't afford that, they should shut up shop and leave broadcasting to the people who can afford to do it fairly. We don't make people pay a supermarket licence to sainsburys to be allowed to receive gifts or to use a food bank.

A place I worked for nearly quarter of a century. Very sad it had to close, but as you say - things have changed, technology moved on, and the BBC not what it was. Notable that other big broadcasters are in out-of-town sites (Sky, Discovery etc.) but the BBC thought itself so important to retain Broadcasting House in the middle of town. Like you said - I watched TVC as a child and was desperate to work there. My first day working I watched from my 2nd floor office Tomorrow's World doing an item live from within the doughnut. I was very excited seeing cue lights on the cameras match what was coming off air on BBC1!

I cancelled my license back in 2020 (after waking up to their propaganda bullshit ) and have never missed the BBC for a second ! ! !

How sad glad we visited this place with a friend on a Studio Tour and it was on a Children in Need Live broadcast. Saw Kylie Minogue, several others and Terry Wogan for which We had a picture taken. What Memories this place had! Reminds me of Teddington Studios demolished back when.

It’s such a crime a lot of tv dramas now mostly made in the north west of England

The BBC has become an anachronism. It should be privatised.

What a lovely video to watch thank you for up loading it

All I can say is there was life before TV Centre & there is life in her yet, progress is important, otherwise we will still be there, smoking, drink driving, not wearing seat belts and equality would not be a thing, be proud of what was and move with time.

Yes, very sad it went. The studios at Lime Grove, just down the road from there, went to Luxury flats too!

I started my career at the beeb in the East Tower and moved to the Design Building at about the same time that you were there. I treasured my MCP ticket. 😂 Interesting to see how it’s developed. Thanks for sharing.

I rarely comment, but this video and reading the comments made it hit home to me how the loss of BBC TV center has meant a lot to me. I truly loved the BBC as a child and loved the programs and celebrities. I nagged my mum insessently to take me to visit the TV center - which we did one day. I still remember us climbing some trees so I could look into the Blue Peter garden!! We even saw Noel Edmunds driving out of the studios while we were there! To anyone who worked there I just have to say a heartfelt thank you. The BBC has a place in my heart and I am sad how that terrific building has been repurposed, but glad it still exists! However, I'm not so downbeat as some people - I know things look bad, but we need to pick ourselves up and get on with reinventing ourselves.❤

I worked at TVC from '03 to the point they turned the lights off (my dept. was the last one out the building). My childhood was defined by the BBC and I never wanted to work anywhere else. I'm just pleased I got to work here, at least for part of my career. It was a wonderful place, but even by mid-00s was in dire need of a massive refurb, so much of the infrastructure was worn out. Amusingly I returned for a look around on almost the same day you did for this video - uncanny!

Is it progress? As Sir Starmer would say in PMQT… NO! Such a pity, now it's all luxury flats. Always found the BBC TV Centre a very exciting to drive past back in the 1990's. Thanks for the upload.

Things have to move on, the investment needed to bring it up to date would have been uneconomic.

I’m no fan of Clarkson or Top Gear but that the BBC basically gave away its biggest earner to Amazon over a tiny incident which didn’t involve the police perhaps demonstrates the broken thinking occurring in the organisation. Sure, dock Clarkson a year’s pay or suspend him for a while, but killing Top Gear was sheer financial lunacy. As for the building, it would have made a great but expensive museum; I hope it was thoroughly documented before everybody left. It’s certainly a place where dreams were made to come true. It’s a shame that buildings of an era aren’t more prized- I see the same happening in Prague where spaces in which literal central-European despots planned wars are being renovated away into wine bars and luxury flats. Soon all the “ugly beauty” of communist era design will be gone.

I guess a plus side is tgat a lot of the original archetecture still remains and has been slightly considered during the refit. Glad to see the beeb sort of retuning to the site. Always sad to see a slice of history go but this could have been so much worse.