{"id":556858,"date":"2025-11-08T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/556858\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:20:13","slug":"can-birmingham-regain-its-tv-crown-becoming-britains-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/556858\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Birmingham regain its TV crown becoming Britain&#8217;s Hollywood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The city was once synonymous with groundbreaking television. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its innovative BBC drama department produced Play for Today, tackling social issues with bold storytelling. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham-based entertainment shows included darts-based gameshow Bullseye, Spitting Image, Telly Addicts and anarchic children&#8217;s show Tiswas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millions tuned in nightly to watch the ATV soap Crossroads, as well as the BBC&#8217;s weekday Pebble Mill At One. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midlands Today presenter Nick Owen said working at the BBC studios in its heyday was &#8220;just brilliant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So many dramas came out of there&#8230; Pebble Mill was an absolute hub of activity in broadcasting, both in gameshows, dramas and documentaries&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had worked at ATV, later renamed Central, before moving to the BBC co-hosting national show Good Morning with Anne and Nick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Interior scenes for nautical soap Howard&#8217;s Way and All Creatures Great and Small, though set in coastal and rural locations respectively, were also filmed at Pebble Mill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city was once synonymous with groundbreaking television. Its innovative BBC drama department produced Play for Today, tackling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-556858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115513106507793146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}