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Teddington Studios


The T-Bag series was filmed at what used to be the Thames studios at Teddington Lock, just down the road from Kingston Upon Thames.

The studios themselves have been used to film many productions since the collapse of Thames, including the infamous Pop Idol, reality TV style sitcom The Office, BBC's morning discussion show Kilroy, Men Behaving Badly, and weekend morning Kid's show Diggit.

To find out loads more about the Studios, visit the Teddington Studios website.

Here are some photos that I took just to give you an idea of where T-Bag was filmed.
Pictures

Teddington Studios main entrance - taken in Broom Rd.

The Studios from the other side of the Thames.

Practically the same photo, even though I walked a good distance down the lane towards Kingston since the photo above - this is a seriously large building!

This photo shows the surroundings of the studios. It is facing the bridge crossing the Thames with the studios behind me and to my right. The area is lovely - relatively quiet considering that we are still in the London area (albeit a fairly long way from the centre!). Bits of The Bill are also filmed in this area - one episode featured the Bentall Centre in Kingston just down the river.

 

This is a photograph of the studios from the air. Broom Road is to the south and the Thames to the North.


I did try to see if I could get into the studios, but as I entered the reception, the lady behind the desk began to look panicky - as if I were about to try to blow it all up. I asked if they did tours of the studios, but apparently they don't since the collapse of Thames. When I headed back out of the building, she took her finger off of the emergency button, switched off the searchlights and sirens and called off the burly guards with the doberman pinschers...

Anyway, the majority of the T-Bag series was filmed in Studio 3 - Teddington's smallest studio. Here is a floorplan.