The Leeds Studios

The Leeds Studios
Yorkshire Television Studios
Front of the main Leeds Studios building
Alternative names	Yorkshire Television Studios
General information
Type	Television studios
Location	Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Address	Kirkstall Road Leeds
Current tenants	ITV Yorkshire ITV Studios
Construction started	1967
Completed	1968
Inaugurated	1968
Renovated	2013
Owner	ITV plc
Technical details
Floor count	4 (at height)

The Leeds Studios (also known as the Yorkshire Television Studios or YTV Studios) is a television production complex on Kirkstall Road in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ITV plc had proposed to close the studios in 2009, however later in the year had a change of mind and instead decided to refit them as high definition studios.

The Leeds Studios were originally the home of Yorkshire Television and are now owned by ITV plc. The complex houses the main studios and administrative headquarters of ITV Yorkshire, which also has smaller offices in Sheffield and Kingston upon Hull.

ITV programmes produced there include: 3-2-1, My Parents Are Aliens, Where the Heart Is, The Royal, Heartbeat, Wire in the Blood, Bruce's Price is Right and A Touch of Frost. Countdown was regularly made for Channel 4 here until April 2009 (when it moved to The Manchester Studios and then to MediaCity in Salford) as was Win My Wage, a new gameshow for Channel 4 made by independent company Hotbed Media in 2007. The studios were also home to Through the Keyhole, (which began as a YTV production on ITV, but was later made by David Frost's company Paradine Productions for Sky1 and the BBC) and were used for the interior shots on hit comedy The League of Gentlemen and medical drama Bodies (both for the BBC). The revived Bullseye on Challenge was also recorded at the Leeds Studios as was the 2006 series of Mastermind, due to the closure of Granada Studios for the removal of asbestos at the time.