Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

The planning application for The One Show is up at http://idoxpa.westminster.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=MEXGNPRPZ5000

The studio will be on the right on the picture at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/12/bbc-entwistle-deal-cameron-mps

Doesn't look like it will be a great view, especially with the barriers they are proposing.

Wonder if they'll end up encouraging a bit of an outside audience a la This Morning at the Albert Dock... well maybe not having people peering in desperately trying to see through the one-sided glass but you know, that sort of thing.

So The One Show studio will now also be a makey-up studio for the BBC Tour and will have a barriers around it. If it has a window on the ground floor, then any idiot can walk in front of it and do as they please.

EDIT - There will be barriers and security guards. Here's what a mock looks like when the BBC does it. TVF be proud!

So is that the space that is currently occupied by the temporary BBC London set?

Also, just taking a look at the barrier plans:

http://idoxpa.westminster.gov.uk/online-applications/files/32D3F3E9E0F3388BF736A023B3A470F8/pdf/12_12275_FULL-BARRIER_LOCATION_PLAN_15.11.12-2551033.pdf

Surely that will look just terrible on screen? Wouldn't it be better to close the plaza entirely, and for that time use the old BH reception entrance?

Is the plaza / Langham Street a public right of way? That is the only reason I can see why the proposed approach would be appropriate.

Still, hope it wont look poop. That mock looks like we have a great view!

For those of you interested you can now pre-book a tour of the new BH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/tours/bh_london.shtml

It would have made perfect sense to use this proposed studio for Breakfast in the morning and The One Show in the evening

You've got to love the ever-optimistic spin of planning applications:

Good idea. Now if you can please work out how to increase the number of staff at Salford to ensure the BBC are still within their obligations for the regional development grant, work out how to fit the Breakfast production team in BH and then work out how to deal with the massive amount of bad publicity for "BBC wastes money on moving breakfast and moving it back".

If you email them to the producer Mr J. Brass at youresohot@bbc.co.uk that'd be fab.

I've been thinking about it, and being able to use the whole front of NBH will create quite the backdrop. They might as well put those lights to good use! It will make the show all the more 'live' in the sense that it is in the Centre of London and real people could attend events, instead of people brought in for White City ones.

Its a public plaza (It had to be to get planning permission, hence why they are mentioning the 'occassional use' for the programme) so some sort of access has to be maintained at all times. It's exactly the same for Rockafella Plaza outside Studio 1W for Today on NBC. Access is maintainted on the other pavement/sidewalk to where the crowds are. Will be same rules for the BBC.

It does say that the taller barriers will be covered in a vinal covering - so I would take this to mean, multi coloured coverings with 'One' on them. I suppose old BH correctly lit, and the blue lit frontage of the new main entrance of BH will look better than two grey steel office blocks that you currently have.

Studio is in the wrong place though. Better area would have been to try and find a space on floor 4 or 5 of BH, so the cameras look out towards All Souls Church, and beyond to Oxford Circus and Regent Street.

genie: no, if you read the "Full Covering Letter" you'll note that there will be a two metre high fence and 'exclusion zone' of sorts. It appears they are only maintaining access to the piazza during the show because the Council needs them to. Indeed, it specifically says the show does not invite or promote public audiences and the only people outside should be 'casual visitors'. Whether they can maintain that or not will remain to be seen.

Mind you, all the cr*p about educational stuff is basically to get Planning to agree to them doing the show from there. Could be annoying if you worked on the show.

Reminds me of the Arrested Development episode where there's a studio tour to Tantamount Studios: "Oh, that's okay. It's more important to show how we make the show than to actually make it."