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We’re delighted to announce that Victoria Wood has joined the campaign. She writes:

“TV Centre was always a great place to work and it seems barmy to demolish viable studios that are fully functional.  I’m not saying this for sentimental reasons.  It just seems so wasteful to get rid of them.”

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Fawlty Towers star and co-author Connie Booth is the latest famous face to join the campaign. She writes:

Entertainment is one of the UK’s growth industries. To meet increasing demand I fully support the campaign to save the five BBC TV Studios and to ask the BBC governors to rethink their cost-cutting policy.

Yours sincerely, 

Connie Booth

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Dear Auntie,

Make no mistake;  I love the BBC, I’ve worked for you all my life, you are the cultural force of the Nation. But why, oh why, do you persist in getting it  wrong?  ‘Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves’ was what my mother taught me. You have squandered licence payers’ money before, but to demolish Television Centre is both wasteful & absurd.  You  demolish television history, television present and television future. They are THE best studios in the country – as the many shows having to find new homes are now discovering. Are you scared of having a studio base in London? Are you pandering to politics over practicality? It’s not too late to change your mind – a lady’s prerogative after all. Prove to us that there is still a will for the BBC to provide, as it always used to, the very best facilities to make the very best programmes in the world.

Yours affectionately,

Miriam Margolyes

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Another legendary ‘Blue Peter’ presenter has joined the campaign. John Noakes presented the flagship children’s show from 1965-1978 alongside his beloved border collie friend Shep. He also presented the popular ‘Go With Noakes’ from 1976-1980. He writes the following:

“In a time when, worldwide, the economy is being squeezed, it seems a dreadful shame to close these studios, which are both functional and financially viable assets”

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‘Citizen Smith’ & ‘My Family’ star Robert Lindsay has joined the campaign. He has this to say:

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Legendary magician Paul Daniels has joined the campaign. Paul recorded many of his TV shows at BBC Television Centre. He has this to say:

“Having studios so far out of London to run the business of the BBC is madness and totally false accounting.                 The accountants destroyed Hollywood and it took the stars to get the place back up to profit.”

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Still one of the all-time favourite Blue Peter presenters – Janet Ellis is the latest star to join our campaign.

She writes:

‘I hugely support the campaign to reverse the decision to close 5 out of the 8 studios at what used to be Television Centre. That idea is short-sighted, ridiculous and bewildering.  There would be a lot of explaining to do in the future if this vital and viable asset was lost. There is still time!’

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Actress Prunella Scales CBE is best known for her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty in the classic BBC sitcom ‘Fawlty Towers’. Every episode of the show was recorded in TC8 at BBC Television Centre – regarded by many as the finest sitcom studio in the country – and one of the five studios due for demolition under Stanhope’s plans. She writes:

“As an actor who has worked in the BBC T.V. Centre’s excellent studios over many years, I’m shocked at the proposal to demolish half of this valuable facility, especially at a time when television studio space is in short supply, and often geographically inconvenient.”

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