Elstree Calling

 

The George Lucas Stage, Elstree Studios. Photo: © Elstree Studios Ltd. 

 

 

Welcome to Elstree Calling, which is my unofficial website dedicated to Elstree Studios, a busy film & TV studio facility which is located in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, close to central London.

 

Elstree Studios has long been the home of some of the very best film & television productions made in this country and my website celebrates its long history. I update this website, which is currently celebrating its fifth anniversary, on a regular basis with news and features on the past, present & future of Elstree Studios, so please remember to keep checking back.

 

Incidentally, if you have ever worked in-front and/or behind the camera at Elstree Studios, and would be willing to take part in an interview for this website, then please email me at: paulburton73@hotmail.co.uk.

 

Finally, thank you for visiting this website.

 

Paul Burton

 

 

This website was last revised and updated on: Tuesday 17th August 2010

 

 

I am pleased to announce that Elstree Calling is currently celebrating its fifth anniversary of being online! Started by me - Paul Burton - in 2005, Elstree Calling continues to chart the past, present & future of Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. During its first five years a host of people, including film & TV actors, actresses, producers, directors and technicians etc., have kindly allowed me to interview them for this unofficial website. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them and, of course, all those of you who have visited this website during this time. And fear not, there's lots of new interviews and features relating to Elstree Studios set to be added to this website to in the coming months.

 

Here's to the next five years!  

 

 

The management of Elstree Studios has revealed that it is to mark the 85th anniversary of the historic complex in 2011. They have also announced that plans are currently being made to expand the facility with more stages and production space.

 

The year 2011 will also be important to Elstree Studios as it will mark the 15th anniversary since Hertsmere Borough Council took over the site.

 

More news will be added to this website as it reaches me.

 

 

Concession caterers Couture have won the contract to run the in-house bar, canteen, coffee shop and stage catering at Elstree Studios.

 

Couture's fresh produce philsophy beat off the competition to see their creative food offering brought to Elstree's TV & film studios. Couture, who price themselves on championing the best of British produce, took over the catering facilities on Monday 16th August 2010. 

 

Couture will now oversee a refurbishment programme over the coming months of all the catering facilities at the studio complex. 

 

 

 

Elstree Studios now has an official Facebook page. To visit, 'Like' and invite your friends to this page, please click here. 

 

 

I have now fully revised & updated the Production Village page on this website. To visit this page, please click here. 

 

 

The final series of Big Brother to be shown on Channel 4 and E4 is currently being made at Elstree Studios. The reality series, which first started in 2000, moved to the studio complex in 2002.

 

The final of BB11 will take place at the site on Tuesday 24th August 2010. An All Stars version will then take place which will see many of the former Big Brother housemates entering the famous compound.

 

An extra special welcome to all those of you visiting this website who are Big Brother viewers or Big Brother production team members!

 

To read my features on Big Brother, please click here and here. Or to visit the official website for Big Brother, please click here. 

 

 

I have just had the pleasure of shooting my third short film at Elstree Studios and on location nearby. Entitled, Louisa, this film will be broadcast on Showcase TV 2 (Sky 216) later this year.

 

 

 

Starring actress Vicki Michelle ('Allo 'Allo!, Emmerdale) and also featuring her actress daughter, Louise Michelle, my short film Resentment, which I filmed at Elstree Studios during 2009, continues to be broadcast at various times on Showcase TV 2 (Sky 216). The film is being shown as part of a compilation programme of short films called Ronke. It has, to date, been broadcast approximately one-hundred times.

 

For more information on Resentment, which has been made by my not-for-profit film production company, Paul Burton Films, please click here.

 

 

Please visit Elstree Calling's online aStore where you can buy a host of DVDs, books and CDs that have some form of connection to Elstree Studios and/or the film & television productions made at the site. Please click here to visit the shop now.

 

 

Elstree Calling is an unofficial website dedicated to Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. It was founded and is run by the film & television historian Paul Burton, and is in no-way connected to Elstree Studios Ltd. or the present owners of the studios, Hertsmere Borough Council. All of the official photos of Elstree Studios featured on this website have been used with the kind permission of Elstree Studios Ltd.