Wasn’t the TVM basically a warehouse they did up and filled as a console room?
TARDIS Console Room 2023 (Potential Spoilers)
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Wasn’t the TVM basically a warehouse they did up and filled as a console room?
Well... the set was certainly in a warehouse that they turned into a studio. But the same was also true of the Upper Boat Studios too, where the 2005-2010 and 2010-2012 TARDIS sets were. And famously the TARDIS set was filmed in a tent for the 7th Doctor story "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy".
I thought the Greatest Show stuff was a pick up once the asbestos was done?
On the TVM I always thought it was literally they just used a whole warehouse and stuck the Tardis sets in whilst using some of the warehouse itself xD
I’ve actually gone off the new Tardis set a bit — it’s the closest in many ways to the sets of old, but it’s almost too big, to the point I can’t imagine it ever being used usefully. It feels… less homely. Even the old console room had that to it, whereas this is more… Star Wars. More clinical even.
Not that I am watching the show atm.
I’ve ended up going back to the Wilderness Years stuff. I suppose it’s my Who Happy Place.
Back when all I wanted to be was someone who wrote those things.
Oddly, I don't really feel that way about the TVM console room (though it's walking right up to that point), but I do feel that way about the Thirteenth Doctor's console room. It's all the holes in the walls and undefined light-sources coming through them. It feels like if they turned on all the house lights, you'd be able see the entire rest of the soundstage from right there. Even if you couldn't see them clearly with all the darkness and the smoke, it felt like the TVM room did have solid walls and wasn't just a mesh shell.
Oh I agree. That was awful. Truly bad. The TVM… that look works, and almost makes the inside of the Tardis from Invasion of Time make sense by extension. The Thirteenth Doctors room, one part scrap merchants wet-dream, one part New Age Crystal woo-woo gone extreme, managed to look so stupidly cheap. Bits of it just looked like they had forgot to put away the lighting rig. Made washing up bowl walls look classy in comparison.
Not quite sure what you mean by a "pick up". The planned studio sessions had to be cancelled after asbestos was found in the main studios at BBC Television Centre, but a large "tent" – actually more of a sort of enormous temporary shed or lean-to – was erected in the car park of the BBC's Elstree studios to enable studio filming to be completed. Fortunately The Greatest Show in the Galaxy was set in a giant circus, so filming in a tent probably ensured most of the production looked better than it would have if it had been filmed in the studio as planned!
The TARDIS interior was also filmed in this "tent"/"shed". This is notable as the last appearance in the classic series of the traditional TARDIS interior.
My understanding is that it was a warehouse attached to the Bridge Studios complex just outside Vancouver, where the TVM was filmed. But I don't have my copy of Regeneration to hand, it's still in storage since I last moved house along with most of my Doctor Who books.
I like that it's got the classic "white minimalist" look, and I really like the console's mix of high and low tech, advanced and obsolete technology, but I do agree that for an enormous space a lot of the volume seems unusable to the point of impracticality. It seems to take a lot of inspiration from the concepts of Matt Savage, but simultaneously lacks... warmth?
Mine too. Big fan of the New Adventures novels. They're what turned me into a Doctor Who fan in the first place.
There were moments with the 13th Doctor's TARDIS interior where you could see the actual studio walls and ceiling lighting rig on camera.
Not quite sure what you mean by a "pick up". The planned studio sessions had to be cancelled after asbestos was found in the main studios at BBC Television Centre, but a large "tent" – actually more of a sort of enormous temporary shed or lean-to – was erected in the car park of the BBC's Elstree studios to enable studio filming to be completed. Fortunately The Greatest Show in the Galaxy was set in a giant circus, so filming in a tent probably ensured most of the production looked better than it would have if it had been filmed in the studio as planned!
The TARDIS interior was also filmed in this "tent"/"shed". This is notable as the last appearance in the classic series of the traditional TARDIS interior.
My understanding is that it was a warehouse attached to the Bridge Studios complex just outside Vancouver, where the TVM was filmed. But I don't have my copy of Regeneration to hand, it's still in storage since I last moved house along with most of my Doctor Who books.
I like that it's got the classic "white minimalist" look, and I really like the console's mix of high and low tech, advanced and obsolete technology, but I do agree that for an enormous space a lot of the volume seems unusable to the point of impracticality. It seems to take a lot of inspiration from the concepts of Matt Savage, but simultaneously lacks... warmth?
Mine too. Big fan of the New Adventures novels. They're what turned me into a Doctor Who fan in the first place.
Like a pick up shot where they, for example, shoot the Tardis scenes for Show in studio time allocated to say Patrol. I can see that isn’t the case. It was rumoured the walls were seen in a skip after this, so I imagine someone couldn’t be bothered packing it up to go home afterwards. Sad really.
I might flick through Regeneration later — it’s either in there or maybe the DWM TVM special where I got this idea xD
