Wimbledon Film & Television Studios is an English film and television production company and facilities provider, located in

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, between

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and Wimbledon in

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History

Wimbledon Studios was established as the Merton Studios. The studios were previously a wine-distribution warehouse, which was acquired by

Thames Television Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992. Thames Television broa ...

as a replacement for their Barlby Road base in

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in the early 1990s. The studios were also used for the Channel 5 soap opera ''

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'', which was produced by Thames and had moved from a site in

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. An exterior street set was built for the programme, which has also since been used by other productions and is available for hire. Thames which later became

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stayed at the studios until 2010 when ''

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'', by then the only show produced there, ended. After the cancellation of ''The Bill'' by ITV, Talkback Thames's owners,

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, sold the studios. Panther Securities Plc purchased the site for £4.75 million in September 2010 and set up Wimbledon Film & Television Studios in October 2010, to provide a new production facility to the film and television industry. The facility has three studios: two large studios of approximately and one 5,000-square-foot studio. In August 2014, it was announced that Wimbledon Studios had entered administration with several employees being made redundant as a result. Marjan TV network currently holds the lease on the building Enquiries for studio hire are handled by The Location Collective.

Studios

*Studio 1 (7690 sq ft, 29 ft height clearance) *Studio 2 (8160 sq ft, 29 ft height clearance)

Free-standing sets

* Street set (

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's ''Under the Sun'' music video; '' Derren Brown: Apocalypse'' trailer) * The Common Inn pub set (Dizzee Rascal - Bassline Junkie, David Brent - Equality Street)

Production history

* '' The Iron Lady'' (feature film) * '' Tipping Point'' (ITV1) * '' Episodes'' (Series 2 & 3; BBC2) * '' Spy'' (Series 1 & 2; Sky1) * '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here'' (ITV1) * '' An Adventure in Space and Time'' (

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special; BBC) * ''

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'' (BBC1) * '' Big School'' (BBC1) * ''

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- Equality Street for

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'' (BBC1) * ''

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'' (BBC1) * '' Only Fools & Horses Sports Relief 2014 Special'' (BBC1) * '' Inside No. 9'' (BBC2) * '' Misfits'' (E4) * '' Russell Howard's Good News Sketches'' (BBC3) * ''

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'' (BBC3) * ''

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'' (Series 2) * '' Bad Education'' (Series 2; BBC3) * '' The Angel'' (Sky1) * '' World Series of Dating'' (BBC3) * ''Nixon's the One'' (Sky Arts) * ''

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'' (Sky1) * '' Anna and Katy'' (Channel 4) * ''

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'' (BBC2) * '' Watson & Oliver'' (BBC3) * ''

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'' (E4) * ''Pride'' (feature film) *
Junk
' (BBC)

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