Breakfast Television Centre in Camden Town was sold to MTV Networks in 1993, with the famous eggcups still standing on the roof of the building beside the Regent's Canal.

A look at the studio put together by ITN to cover the 2001 General Election for ITV and some more recent images, showing the London Today and ITV News sets. Photographs: Mike Cooper [2001 image]

the ITV Election 2001 set at ITN’s Gray’s Inn Road headquarters.

ITV News Studio

These images below show the ITV News set from 2006

ITV London Today Studio

This image below show the ITV News London Today set from 2006

The London Studios (also known as The South Bank Studios, The London Television Centre, ITV Towers and Kent House) in Waterloo, Central London was a television studio complex owned by ITV plc and originally built for London Weekend Television. The studios were located in Central London and were situated on the South Bank next to the IBM Building and the Royal National Theatre. The building was set on 2.5 acres of land and was 24 floors high. The London Studios closed on 30 April 2018.

Granada Studios were television studios on Quay Street in Manchester with the facility to broadcast live and recorded programmes. They were the headquarters of Granada Television and later ITV Granada between 1956 and 2013. At the time of their closure, the studios were the oldest operating purpose-built television studios in the UK.

Granada Studios Tour

The Granada Studios Tour operated from 1989 to 1999 and gave the public the opportunity to visit the Coronation Street set and explore other Granada productions. Although such theme parks based on television and film had been successful in the United States, the idea of such a scheme was unprecedented for a British television company. John Williams, head of studio operations at Granada, promoted the project to provide a new revenue stream for Granada, the only television company to embark on such a venture. The park featured a replica of No. 10 Downing Street, and visitors were shown how television is produced, had the opportunity to present a weather forecast and learned about special effects. The main feature of the tour was the set of Coronation Street, which allowed visitors access to the street and take photographs.

Further images of the studios on Quay Street in Manchester

Sadly the famous Granada TV red lettering was taken down above the penthouse suite in October 2010 as they were corroded and posing a health and safety hazard. At the same time the exterior was spruced up with a lick of paint and new ITV signage appeared in time for the media arriving for the recording of Britain's first televisied election debate.

A new era begins… ALL Studios, Manchester

A huge thank you to Allied London the owners of Granada's former home, who granted TVARK permission to document their buildings before redevelopment of the site begins. The best news is that Allied London recognise the heritage of the Quay Street buildings and are keeping the old studios and refurbishing them for future Film and TV productions, under a new brand – ALL Studios, great news for Manchester!. The complex will become part of the new St John's neighbourhood in the city centre.

Thames Television made documentary shows, news and sports programming were at its studios Euston Road headquarters. It closed its Euston Road studios in 1993 after they lost their ITV franchise.

When ABC was replaced by Thames Television the Teddington Studios became the main production centre for Thames's entertainment programming – gameshows, children's programmes, dramas and comedy. The site consisted of 8 studios in total, as well as post production editing facilities. When Thames lost its ITV franchise to Carlton Television, which took over in 1993, the studios became independent.