Run by different companies, so bit of both (some had different stages with one studio building, though the ARC was one big interconnected multi-level set, but rarely if ever seen as such). Same catering bus for both, different breaks!
Filming order?
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You wouldn't have a production order for The Bill 1987-91 would you, Lance? I've been watching these for a long time and hair styles and story arcs change with the wind so i'd love to watch them in the order they were made if possible!
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It's a puzzler
One of the curious anomalies, similar to the Sulu thing in I Mudd, is that in "Light Duties" (Series 4, Episode 1) PC Ken Melvin places a bet in Reg Hollis's betting pool on Burnside becoming the new Detective Inspector, and a big deal is made about it, but by the time "Just Call Me Guvnor" (Series 4, Episode 6) rolls around, they make a big deal about PC Malcolm Haynes chasing Hollis about getting his payoff from correctly betting on Burnside. It's not impossible to reconcile, but it does stand out, as the former feels intended to be a setup for the latter, and both scripts were written by the same guy (The Bill creator Geoff McQueen), so I can only guess that actor unavailability played a part! 
The novelizations present them in a wildly different order that feels more logical continuity-wise, eg Burnside's introduction isn't until waaaaay later after a whole bunch of stories where he's absent on TV but which were broadcast after his introduction, among a bunch of other little continuity issues, so if I were to take a guess, those may be in the production order.
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A studio is a facility. So I don't know what point you're trying to make, nor what ARC refers to.
The Bill has different titles at the beginning of that series, Lance, which alternate for three months or more so I've always assumed the production order that way!
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The ARC was the headquarters of the characters in Primeval, one of the two series that Ben Miller was starring in simultaneously.
Anomaly Research Centre. The main base for the Primeval team from season two.
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