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The Studios

dock10 has started a television revolution that is helping to make programmes in a fresh new way, bursting with can-do confidence and you-got-it attitude. Our ten television studios are purpose-built to handle any size and style of show, but it’s our people that make the biggest difference. We do everything we can to ensure your production is as good as it can be. This starts with us putting your show first, rising to your challenges and finding more ways to say yes. That’s why your production belongs here at dock10 – the new home of television.

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The Studios Specifications

HQ1

UK's biggest multi-camera TV Studio for major productions

Size: 12,550 sq ft Audience: 1,000

Credits: All Together Now, A Question of Sport, Jane & Friends, Michael Bublé at the BBC, Harry Styles at the BBC, Help the Animals at Christmas, Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow, Bullseye, Play Your Cards Right, Strike It Lucky, Take Your Pick, The Price Is Right, 20 Years of The Black Eyed Peas, Guess the Star, Pitch Battle, Goes Wrong Show, Porridge, Quizmaster, Britain's Brightest, Sport Relief, The Voice UK, What would your Kid Do, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Who Dares Wins, BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Big Quiz Corrie Vs Emmerdale, Goodnight Sweetheart, In It to Win It, Let It Shine, Rolling in it, Still Open All Hours, Swashbuckle, The Code, The Voice Kids, Tonight's the Night, World of Sport Wrestling & Even Better Than The Real Thing

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HQ2

Large size multi-camera TV studio

Size: 7,650 sq ft Audience: 600

Credits: 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, A Question of Sport, Jane & Friends, Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate, Buy it Now, The Furchester Hotel, Naked Attraction, House of Fools, The ITV Leaders' Debate 2015, Citizen Khan, Eurovision: You Decide, Are You Being Served?, The ITV Leaders' Debate 2019, The Price is Right, Crackerjack, Goes Wrong Show, The £100K Drop, The ITV Leaders' Debate 2017, The Sarah Millican Television Programme, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Alphabetical, Britain's Brightest Family, For what its worth, Gino's win your wish list, Got What It Takes, In with the Flynns, John Bishop's Britain, John Bishop's Only Joking, Mastermind, Sam and Marks Big Friday Wind Up, The Boss, The Wright Way, The Slammer & !mpossible

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HQ3

Medium size multi-camera TV studio

Size: 4,800 sq ft Audience: 200

Credits: Final Score, Football Focus, Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2, Blue Peter, The Tez O'Clock Show, For what its worth, Frank Skinner's Opinionated, Justin's House, Saturday Mash-Up!, Something Special & Gigglebiz

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HQ4

Large size multi-camera TV studio

Size: 6,300 sq ft Audience: 300

Credits: The World's Most Shocking Ads With Shane Richie, The Sarah Millican Television Programme, Dragons Den, Countdown, Got what it takes, Judge Rinder, Mastermind & University Challenge

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HQ5

Small multi-camera TV studio

Size: 1,000 sq ft

Credits: CBBC, Newsround & Match of the Day Kickabout

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HQ6

Small multi-camera TV studio

Size: 1,000 sq ft

Credits: CBeebies

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HQ7

Small multi-camera TV studio

Size: 1,600 sq ft

Credits: Final Score, Football Focus, Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2, Blue Peter & Saturday Mash-Up!

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HQ8

Small multi-camera green screen studio

Size: 750 sq ft

Credits: Pitch Battle (behind the scenes), The Tez O'Clock Show, The Voice UK (behind the scenes), Cbeebies Watch & Sing, YolanDa's Band Jam, Something Special, Top of The Box, Rob Beckett's Mr & Mrs & Meet the Richardsons

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HQ9 BBC Philharmonic

Very large specialist orchestral studio

Size: 6,400 sq ft Audience: 250

Credits: BBC Philharmonic Presents: Pet Shop Boys, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic with Omer Meir Wellber, Elbow with the BBC Philharmonic & YolanDa Brown's Bring The Noise Adventure

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HQ10 Audio Studio

Specialist multi-purpose audio studio

Size: 1,000 sq ft Audience: 100

Credits: The Voice UK (behind the scenes), BBC Radio Drama, Daily Service, Woman's Hour & Let It Shine (behind the scenes)

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HQ11 Outdoor Studio

Connected broadcast space with large screen

Size: 50,000 sq ft Audience: 5,000

Credits: Blue Peter, The ITV Leaders' Debate 2015, The ITV Leaders' Debate 2017, The ITV Leaders' Debate 2019, Sport Relief, Antiques Roadshow & Gok Live: Stripping for Summer

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HQ12 Open Centre Mezzanine

Event space with external views of MediaCityUK

Size: 4,500 sq ft

Credits: Blue Peter, The Voice UK, School Report & Watchdog

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Turnaround Team

When it comes to getting your set and lights in and out, nobody does it better than our much-loved turnaround team. Enormously popular with our clients, they’re known for making it all so easy for visiting productions, that they want to come back and do it all again and again. Nothing’s too much trouble, and there’s nothing they can’t handle.

Dedicated Audience Team

The people in your audience have a real passion for television and we make sure they have the very best experience from the moment they arrive at The Studios. Our enthusiastic team welcomes your audience to a dedicated waiting area where they soak up the TV atmosphere, ready to be part of your show.

Client Facilities

Making sure that your production team, talent and guests are as comfortable as possible is all part of the dock10 difference. This means meeting even the most diverse and demanding requirements by not only having the full range of facilities you’d expect, but also the flexibility to significantly scale up any elements to give your production everything it needs.

Remote Gallery

dock10's innovative remote gallery solution provides a technically creative way for live sports television to be delivered. Whether it's live from stadiums across the country or on-location from major international events, our galleries give remotely based production teams complete control as if they were at the event. This enables you to simultaneously manage concurrent feeds from multiple locations, as well as playing-in content.

Virtual Studios

Our industry-leading 4k UHD ready virtual studio capability has literally no limits. Combining Virtual and Augmented Reality, together with live data, our designers can translate your vision into photorealistic sets that will form a spectacular environment for your production. The system enables studio sets to combine physical and virtual elements in such a way that they are indistinguishable from each other.

Sport

dock10 supports the production of thousands of hours of coverage for leading sports broadcasters. This expertise and experience in delivering many of the nation's best-loved sports shows means that we offer innovative and trustworthy solutions for any scale of production. Our dedicated and talented team brings together next-generation studios and post production services.

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