Limehouse Studios was an independently-owned television studio complex, located at the eastern end of Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs in London, which opened in 1983. The building was demolished just six years later, in 1989, to make way for the massive Olympia & York development of Canary Wharf which now occupies the site. A television studio is an installation in which television or video productions take place, either for live television, for recording live on tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for postproduction. ... HSBC Tower (left), One Canada Square (centre), Citigroup Centre (right) Canary Wharf in Tower Hamlets, London, United Kingdom, is a large business development on the Isle of Dogs, centred on the old West India Docks in the London Docklands. ... The Isle of Dogs is a peninsula in the East End of London. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Olympia and York was a major property firm. ...

One of the first successes of the London Docklands Development Corporation, the studios were housed in the immensely strong converted shell of a disused rum and banana warehouse built in 1952. Under the design of Terry Farrell, this was transformed into a complex containing two studios of 3000 and 6000 square feet and various associated production offices and post-production facilities. The two studios were contained in suspended concrete boxes mounted on independent giant springs to reduce external vibration, and the whole complex was fitted out to the highest standards. The London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) was a quango set up in 1981 to regenerate the Docklands area of east London. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Categories: People stubs ...

As one of the then few independent facilities in London, founded by a group of executives from the former Southern Television after that company had lost its ITV franchise in 1981, the new studios quickly became the venue of choice for many of the independent production companies now making programmes for the new Channel 4, helped also by the popular hospitality boat moored alongside in the dock. Among the many programmes made at the studios at that time were Who Dares Wins (1983-88); Treasure Hunt (1983-89), including a celebrity episode in 1985 where the studio itself was the final "treasure" location; Janet Street-Porter's 1987 "yoof tv" series Network 7; and the first series of Whose Line Is It Anyway? with Clive Anderson in 1989. The studios were also the home for the first nine series of Spitting Image from 1984 to 1989, for ITV. Southern Television was one of the original ITV companies, serving the south-central and south-east of England from August 30, 1958 until 12:45 AM on January 1, 1982. ... The history of ITV, the United Kingdom Independent Television commercial network, goes back to 1954. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Channel 4 is a public-service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Treasure Hunt was a popular UK game show, based on the format of the French show La Chasse au trésor, which appeared on Channel 4 between 1983 and 1989 and was revived by BBC Two in 2002 and 2003. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Janet Street-Porter (born December 27, 1946) is an outspoken media personality in the United Kingdom. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Network 7 was a shortlived but influential BAFTA winning youth music and arts programme screened on Channel 4 over two seasons in 1987 and 1988. ... Whose Line Is It Anyway? (sometimes abbreviated to Whose Line?), is an improvisational comedy show. ... Clive Anderson Clive Anderson (born December 10, 1952 in Middlesex, England) is a former barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned television presenter from the United Kingdom. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that ran on the United Kingdoms ITV television network from 1984 to 1996. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Following their eviction in 1989, the owners moved all the equipment they could to the former Lee International Studios at Wembley. But the name disappeared when the parent company Trilion collapsed three years later. Wembley is a place in the London Borough of Brent. ...

External links

• Limehouse Studios unofficial history
• Limehouse Productions profile by the BFI