BBC prepares to say a final goodbye to Television Centre after 53 years
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21600419[/url]
[quote]Madness will perform live in the front of BBC Television Centre as part of an evening of entertainment bidding farewell to the iconic building.
Celebrating its 53 year history, BBC Four will produce the hour-long programme to be shown on 22 March, nine days before TV Centre closes its doors.
The transition to the BBC's new London home, the central New Broadcasting House, began in October last year.
The 1960s building in west London, once home of Top of the Pops and Blue Peter and sold for £200 million, closes on 31 March and will be redeveloped into hotels, flats, a cinema and office space.
The main television studios will be retained and refurbished for leasing out to production companies, including the BBC, from 2014.[/quote]
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;39736455]can we have pics of the new building in this thread?[/QUOTE]
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This is at night.[/QUOTE][/TD][TD][QUOTE=smurfy;39736611]Wider overview of the new building
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Well at least they're not tearing it down, it looks cool.
sorely disappointed that they're not actually going to let Bill Oddie demolish it
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can we have pics of the new building in this thread?
Yes, madness!
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;39736455]can we have pics of the new building in this thread?[/QUOTE]
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This is at night.
That building is confirmed to be featured in Mirrors Edge 2.
Wider overview of the new building
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[QUOTE=trotskygrad;39736455]can we have pics of the new building in this thread?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadcastinghouse/image_gallery.shtml[/url]
[QUOTE=EvilPengy;39736569][IMG]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/bbcfacadeedit.jpg[/IMG]
This is at night.[/QUOTE]
I give it 50 years.
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This is at night.[/QUOTE]
damn, I think I'm ok with this then :P
(especially seeing that they'll probably continue to use the old building)
I've been in that building :3 I was on that TV Show Exchange on CBBC when I was 7 or something :)
Old building looks like a missile silo from the top.
[QUOTE=James xX;39736667]I've been in that building :3 I was on that TV Show Exchange on CBBC when I was 7 or something :)[/QUOTE]
Thats cool :) Thanks for sharing xD
Wasn't the building also used to film Doctor Who in the early days?
My dad works there, been there quite a few times, its botched together like fuck, just a fuck load of hallways and awkwardly sized rooms.
This building is like 5 minutes from my house.
That building looks like it'd be amazing for urbex
good thing someone else is gonna use it, would be a shame to see it demolished
[QUOTE=Combin0wnage;39736792]Wasn't the building also used to film Doctor Who in the early days?[/QUOTE]
And Monty Python's Flying Circus, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Porridge, Dad's Army, I'm Alan Partridge, Little Britain, Mock the Week, That Mitchell and Webb Look, and [url=http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/tv%20centre%20history.htm#programmes]thousands of other shows[/url]. Pretty much anything the BBC has made since 1960, and many shows for other broadcasters too
[editline]27th February 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=latin_geek;39737092]That building looks like it'd be amazing for urbex
good thing someone else is gonna use it, would be a shame to see it demolished[/QUOTE]
Fortunately it's listed so they couldn't do that
[QUOTE=Angus725;39736690]Old building looks like a missile silo from the top.[/QUOTE]
missile silos are usually UNDERGROUND
[QUOTE=smurfy;39736611]Wider overview of the new building
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Looks like a massive toilet seat, but other than that it's cool.
Ah I heard something interesting about why television centre is round the other day [URL="http://dk.reddit.com/r/BritishTV/comments/18imik/goodbye_television_centre_stars_gather_to_say/c8f8knw"]on reddit[/URL].
[quote]My favourite fact about TV Centre, courtesy of my friend who used to be in engineering there (hello to every in the central apparatus room). The reason it is round is so that signals from different studios would always have to travel the same distance to hit the central switching room. This made mixing between stuff going on in different studios much simpler because the signals were in sync etc. etc.
These days its digital buffering everywhere, but in those days they used to actually snip bits off cables to fine-tune the length of time it took for the pictures to get from the studios.[/quote]
That'll make a kickass hotel.
what is going to happen to the live and kicking intro now
[QUOTE=joe588;39739340]what is going to happen to the live and kicking intro now[/QUOTE]
The same thing thats been happening for the last 12 years. Bugger all!
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