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Katya Baker of Quartermaster and Jim Harding of VERB, the two execs behind studio facility, Home of Production, give their take on the future of studios

There’s two drop-in events next week

The ongoing production boom in the U.K. will get a welcome boost with the launch of new...

Film/TV studios developer Quartermaster is to open two new television studios in the UK The studios will service the growth in demand for new content and the UK’s world-class creative industry. Designed for TV and high-end drama production, the facilities are located in London and Birmingham. The studios in Stratford, London, will be open from summer 2021 and the Birmingham City University studios from winter 2022, with the potential for temporary space to be available in Birmingham next summer, subject to demand. Quartermaster is also progressing separate dedicated film studio development...

By Tim Dams2020-12-21T09:41:00+00:00 Demand is rocketing as production gets back on track, but new facilities and site expansions are coming down the line Producers have complained for years about the challenge of locating studio space in the UK, amid record levels of film and TV production, which hit £3.62bn last year, according to the British Film Institute. The situation is not going to improve in the short to medium term. With production bouncing back in the autumn after being brought to a pandemic-enforced halt in the spring, there is much industry concern over the ‘traffic jam’ ahe...