plans of the issuer to convert a portion of the site in a virtual attraction where visitors can see how to make your favorite

BBC Television Centre was closed on Sunday, but the company has ambitious plans to return after redevelopment, with an attractive virtual, allowing visitors to explore the creation of your favorite programs, including Top Gear, EastEnders and Radio 4 Today.

After a series of farewell events over several weeks, the last of more than 5,000 employees have left the site in Wood Lane BBC the weekend, ending nearly 53 years occupation.

The movement was a decade in the planning, as part of a strategic portfolio rationalization property of the BBC, including the remodeling ? 1bn Broadcasting House in central London and World Service Near leaving Bush House.

Coincidentally, the timing of the move allows the company to put some distance between the center of the TV and it has associations with the sexual abuse scandal Jimmy Savile.

However, the BBC will continue, after a break of two years in the building designed by Graham Dawbarn with programs like Strictly Come Dancing - who temporarily move to Elstree - about to return to center TV in 2015 after again.

Before that, the developer Stanhope, who bought the site for 200 million pounds in a 999-year lease, start work to demolish the dilapidated parts in 1970 and the site office building, shops , apartments and a hotel.

The BBC has created a joint venture with Stanhope, TVC Development to oversee the next chapter in the history of Television Centre. Although no longer the seat of power, channel controllers and other senior executives who move to New Broadcasting House, with BBC News, the company is re-occupy 20% of Television Centre after it is remodeled .

Part of the site is a "digital experience of the BBC" - audience by providing better facilities and additional shows, interactive attractions These include an exploration area of ??programming companies. succession. A proposal is that visitors do they use programmed with your date of birth to images of virtual reality programs for the small display as a tourist attraction.

Alan Yentob, creative director of the BBC, which began work in the television center there are more than 40 years, said there was a debate about the exact form of attraction should take, but he was determined to reach ambitious. Yentob provides an attraction that gives "an idea of ??the scale of the BBC and the scope of what he does, and the roots of early television, from there now."

addition to exploring the history of the BBC, said he wanted Yentob attraction for visitors to discover how it is now showing that rigor, Top Gear, Doctor Who and Sherlock made .

"You can imagine the virtual BBC at any time of the day - walking into a room and see John Humphrys make the show now and then to see what is going on in India BBC World, "he said." Then see EastEnders being recorded in the morning. BBC would be a virtual experience. "

three studies and new dressing rooms prior art from 2015, so that the center can accommodate television as more ... with Jools Holland and children in need. The old exam television center, where they were issued today, Newsnight and BBC1 bulletins and the main reception will be redesigned to provide offices for the sales staff Corporation 1200 arm, BBC Worldwide, to from 2014.

In a gesture to the BBC open to the public, was abandoned traditional queue waiting outside Television Centre for a ticket to a show. Instead, the public will be allowed to central court building "donut" for a drink or a meal before a show.

There are also plans to turn the giant courtyard in front of the TV Center - an area the size of Trafalgar Square -. In a public space that could be used to host programs, events and farmers markets

Andrew Fullerton, project development planning and design trade BBC, said the goal was to open the redesigned site to its subscribers, whether they come to shows or company with the staff of the Company. "The idea in the future, which is welcome, arrive early, relax, have a coffee, and then go into the studio."

Andy Griffee, the project manager of the BBC for the transfer of thousands of officials Centre TV New Broadcasting House, said more than 10 years, streamlining the real estate portfolio of the company has produced a gain of € 736m - not including ? 200 million from the sale of the land to the west of London, in Stanhope.

Figures

New BBC Broadcasting House renovation: EUR 1.046bn

Construction Costs: ? 800

technology costs: EUR 154m

Number of employees increased from Television Centre New Broadcasting House and other buildings in central London BBC 5500

Number of offices in New Broadcasting House: 4500

The final curtain call of BBC TV Centre

Last show of the study: Comic Relief - March 15

Last event: Madness Live: Goodbye Television Centre - March 22

Last Performance recorded Study: BBC variety show Entertainment - March 25

last race to go through the galleries of study: Urbi et Orbi, the Pope - March 31

BBC TV Centre staff and displays: where are they now

New Broadcasting House, central London

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