The Fountain Studios, Wembley

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The Fountain Studios is an independently owned television studio located in Wembley, north-west London, close to Wembley Park underground station. Originally film studios and then the base of London ITV stations Associated Rediffusion and later London Weekend Television the studios fell into disrepair when the latter vacated to new facilities in central London in the early 1970's. A number of independent companies owned the site until Fountain purchased the site in the early 1990's.

The studio itself, at over 130 × 90 metric feet within the firelanes, is the largest single fully-equipped television studio in Britain, some 30% larger than Studio 1 at BBC Television Centre. Recent productions to have been made there include Pop Idol and The X Factor, and the London wedding storyline of Friends, as well as many sitcoms and audience shows, including The Kumars at No. 42.

An unusual feature of the facility is a soundproof double door which can be lowered in 30 minutes to reconfigure the space into two separate studios, each with their own independent control facilities.

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