On the east side of the site, there is a neighbouring building called Gabriel's Wharf. Kent House is a 24-story tower block, and was home to ITV plc and many production offices including ITV Studios and Shiver Productions. Therefore, in the absence of a date we know we can confidently welcome you as our guest, we have contacted all existing ticket holders by email and provided a full refund. Although the parent companies merged, and are now one (called ITV plc), Granada Television Ltd still exists as a subsidiary of ITV plc, and owns all ITV plc's studios (wholly in Leeds and London, and formerly as a joint venture with BBC Studios & Post Production in Manchester). The chosen site stood beside the then new Royal National Theatre on the South Bank of the River Thames. On April 13, the final show of This Morning was filmed ahead of the move. 38 quai du Point du Jour 92100 Boulogne … ITV studios which host popular daytime shows are relocating to a different London base. By the time the two companies merged in 2004, all of Carlton's studios had either been sold, or were surplus to requirements, so were sold soon after.
When ITV franchises were permitted to take one another over in the 1990s (which had previously been restricted), Carlton and Granada, between the two companies, eventually owned all the franchises in England and Wales. There were several hand-prints displayed in the audience waiting area with hand-prints of presenters including Vernon Kay, Al Murray, Melvyn Bragg, Lorraine Kelly, Paul O'Grady, Graham Norton, Stephen Fry, Fern Britton, Phillip Schofield, Davina McCall, Des Lynam, Fiona Phillips, Eamonn Holmes, Gabby Logan, Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, Ben Elton and Ian McKellen. Initially, ITV intended to redevelop the site with three smaller studios, but in October 2018 it announced it would not be returning to the South Bank, and the whole site would be redeveloped into premium housing.
The audience were instructed to queue to the left hand side of the studios near to the reception entrance and under a cover where they were escorted into one of the studios once security checked. ITV has left its current location in The South Bank Studios in Waterloo. It was bought in 1969, and construction work, awarded to Higgs and Hill, began in 1970. The following shows have relocated their filming locations... McDonald’s worker pays customer’s bill after he calls mum to ask for her order, Cadaver dogs smell HUMAN REMAINS by Carole Baskin's missing husband's lake house, EastEnders fans sob as Denise is reunited with adopted son after he is orphaned, Lee Evans spotted for the first time in two years after quitting showbiz, Amanda Holden 'distracts' fans by 'wriggling' her boobs in new TikTok challenge, ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. On social media, the building is named 'ITV Towers' since the purchase in January 2013.
When LWT succeeded ATV as the London weekend ITV franchisee in 1968, it rented Associated-Rediffusion's old studios at Wembley (later known as The Fountain Studios) while plans for a new studio complex in central London were drawn up. We connect millions of people every day and shape and reflect the world they live in, we are More Than TV. These included Good Morning Britain, The Graham Norton Show, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and The Jonathan Ross Show.
There were two waterproof TV screens with live ITV programmes shown on them.
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There were weather studios producing the ITV national, and some of the network's regional forecasts at ITN's headquarters in Gray's Inn Road. The site closed in April 2018 for demolition. ITV will not return to the South Bank Studios but are selling the old site.