Studio One (TV show)
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Ash & Tom on the set of Studio One
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| Directed by | Rima Yahfouf (Season 1–current) David Coyle (Season 1) Ehab Noor (Season 1–current) |
| Presented by | Tom Urquhart Aishwarya Ajit |
| Country of origin | UAE |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 605 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Yara Awad (Seasons 1-3) Robert Hillier (Season 1) |
| Producer(s) | Ray Addison (season 1-current) Faraz Javed (Season 1) |
| Running time | 60 mins (Season 1) 30 mins (Season 2-4) |
| Production company(s) |
Dubai Media Incorporated Dubai One |
| Release | |
| Original network | Dubai One |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original release | 12 January 2011 – 11 March 2014 |
| External links | |
| Website |
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Studio One is a live daily English-language lifestyle show broadcast on Dubai One in 16 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Created by the same team that produced Dubai One's popular weekly show Ask One, Studio One is known for its eclectic mix of lifestyle features and celebrity interviews, interactivity and is primarily aimed at women and families. Season One was hosted by Tom Urquhart and Saba Wahid. At the end of the first season Saba left the show and was replaced by former show reporter Aishwarya Ajit. Studio One has been described as Dubai One's flagship show
Studio One evolved from Dubai One's successful weekly television show Ask One which first aired in September 2010. Ask One was pre-recorded and broadcast weekly at 19:30 on Tuesday nights and featured a mix of real-life stories, interviews, reports, investigations and a regular cookery segment. On 28 December it was announced that from 12 January Ask One would be renamed Studio One and become a live, daily show. There were sixteen episodes of the original series.
Season One of Studio One began on 12 January 2011, with Urquhart and Wahid returning from the Christmas break. The new format featured a number of significant changes from Ask One, including a new set, title sequence, graphics, music and reporters.
Other regular features included live performances, reports from destinations around Dubai and fashion segments on Mondays and Thursdays. Additionally Thursday's had more of a food focus featuring the Mystery Bag Challenge and co-host Saba Wahid preparing one of her own recipes in the 'Quick Foodie Fix'.
On 2 May 2011 Studio One broadcast its 100th episode with a live television link up with a party at Dubai Festival City. The first season finished on 30 June after 120 episodes.
Season Two launched on Sunday 25 September 2011 with the new presenting line-up, new half-hour format, bigger set and a range of new features including The West Wing and Winning Lines.
On Monday 23 January Studio One broadcast its 200th episode.
Season Three launched on Sunday 30 September with a week of love broadcasts on location from Jumeirah Zabeel Saray on The Palm before returning to a brand new studio set located in Dubai Studio City.
Season Four launched on Sunday 8 September with a re-vamped set and increased interactive.
Tom Urquhart is a British journalist, television presenter and radio presenter currently based in the Middle East. He is known for presenting the only live English language lifestyle show in the region; Studio One and for broadcasting on 103.8FM Dubai Eye.
After studying English at university in the UK, Tom worked on several British newspaper titles including a daily broadsheet in London before moving to Dubai in 2001. After a brief stint in PR he became Deputy Editor of What’s On for Motivate Publishing and Editor at Large for the launch of Hello Middle East.
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