Old Granada Studios to become “All Studios”

The old thread has been archived. A development in the long running Old Granada Studios story. It looks like the current owner wants to re-equip the site (after a fashion) so that it can once again host shiny floor audience shows. Presumably they’ve seen the obvious gap in the market for multi purpose medium sized studios and want to exploit it. Good for them. However, I’m slightly worried about the line where they say they want to keep it economical, and keep 4-wall spaces with facilities for multi camera tv productions as required. That sounds like drive-in arrangements to me, where the studios have no permanent galleries, just connectivity to the outside where an OB truck can be parked up when needed. Better than nothing though I suppose.

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/tech/former-granada-studios-to-reopen-as-tv-and-film-space/5130649.article

The end of that article states the following:

"Also within Enterprise City will be a 200-bedroom hotel run by Soho House and a refurbished 1960s brutalist block, which will be reopened as the ABC Buildings, providing space for film, TV, media and tech companies."

So it looks like Granada House is being retained then.

Will fit in well with all the redevelopment and regeneration in that part of Manchester. Good news - much better than it becoming an Ikea.

I hope this will work out. It will mean more access to studio space, especially the lack in central London.

Thing is, how much are the studios at Media City used? If they're still empty a lot of the time this isn't going to help the shortage in London

This is old news. Allied London, the owners of Old Granada Studios, announced this as far back as March 2017.
Here's an article published by ProlificNorth on 9th March last year:

Granada’s historic studios will produce entertainment shows again.

They’ve not been used a great deal as far as I can tell under the current situation but that may well be because of an almost total lack of technical infrastructure. I think they’ve found most use as exhibition space, band rehearsal rooms etc.

Anyone can rent Studio 6 now:
https://www.appearhere.co.uk/spaces/old-granada-studios-studio-six

Just read this article about the Old Granada Studios.

At one stage, there was talk about all/part of Granada House becoming a bespoke hotel called something like the "(Manchester) Grande Hotel" (a name presumably chosen because at a quick glance "Grande" is similar enough to "Granada" to be misread). Is that no longer happening, then?

I liked the idea of red neon signage with almost-looks-like-it-says-Granada wording being restored to the Manchester skyline.