Commercial services

BBC Studios

BBC Studios produces premium British content for - and takes it to - audiences in the UK and internationally. It builds valuable global entertainment brands like Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing, and extends fans’ enjoyment of shows through activities such as live events and games.

Powered by British creativity, BBC Studios works with outstanding creative talent with a range and quality that is unsurpassed making it Britain’s most-awarded production company.

The business is the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDb; it is the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the world’s biggest distributor of British content.

In the last five years the BBC Studios has doubled revenues and profits and the business has ambitious plans to double again by 2027/28 through organic and inorganic growth.

BBC Studioworks

BBC Studioworks are a commercial subsidiary of the BBC providing studios and post production services to all the major TV broadcasters and production companies.

Located across sites in Elstree, Glasgow, and Television Centre in White City, BBC Studioworks are home to some of the nation’s most watched and loved television shows. They offer world-class studio and post production spaces, equip them with the right technology and engage the most dedicated and talented people in the industry.

From Elstree, BBC Studioworks offer fully equipped HD TV studios totalling up to nearly 60,000 sq. ft. of studio space. The studios can hold audiences up to 800 people and are supported by 50 ancillary rooms including standard, star and superstar dressing rooms, green rooms, group rooms, production offices, make up and wardrobe rooms.

Across the three studios at Television Centre in White City, they provide over 22,000 sq. ft. of TV studio space as well as scalable post production facilities. The facility is served by an array of flexible technical and support areas including tapeless recording facilities, apparatus rooms, dressing rooms, green rooms and production offices as well as a storage area.

Covering a large footprint of 10,500 sq. ft, BBC Studioworks Kelvin Hall in Glasgow can accommodate both long-term residencies and spot bookings for a wide range of entertainment shows across multiple genres. The sound and lighting galleries are the largest that BBC Studioworks has built across its entire UK footprint. As part of a wider redevelopment initiative at the site, it repurposes a previously derelict section of a historically important building.

Credits include ITV Studios Daytime’s Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women, Talkback’s Celebrity Juice for ITV2, CPL’s A League of Their Own for Sky, So Television’s The Graham Norton Show for BBC One, Remarkable Television’s Pointless for BBC One as well as BBC Studios’ EastEnders.