The BBC’s project to build a brand new, HD-ready Albert Square and expand the external EastEnders set will now cost £27m more than originally planned.

The original 2015 forecast for the scheme was £59.7m, but the revised budget is now £86.7m, the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed.

What were the reasons for the overspend there 😉

Yeah but it’s only licence fee payers money so why should BBC care?

It’s to do with the building materials
Brickset means brickset.

It’s to do with the building materials
Brickset means brickset.

Well done! That worthy of perchypanther. 👏🏻

Brickset means brickset

Let’s hope it’s Strong and Stable

Rickoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!

Get aaaart of my Public Accounts Committee!

who cares

They’ll probably fill the funding gap with a Grant.

Decent value given the viewing figures, how long they got out of the last one and exports etc.

You might think as they’re not ‘real’ houses etc they’d cost less, but they’re more than just houses with 3 walls.

They’ll probably <strong>Phil</strong> the funding gap with a Grant.
Missed an opportunity there…

You might think as they’re not ‘real’ houses etc they’d cost less, but they’re more than just houses with 3 walls.

Indeed – you can’t take the garbage we build and furnish real houses out of into a working TV studio. Especially not a standing set for a soap opera.

Anything I’ve built that looks like a house cost more than a house to build (if you discount land value and utilities), but looking like a house is only one of the jobs it has to do.

and the upstairs of the Queen Vic will still be backwards, based on the layout the living room shouldn’t overlook the square……..bugs me more than it should

Decent value given the viewing figures, how long they got out of the last one and exports etc.

Given what ITV must be getting and the surrounding area on Corrie tours it could be a good investment – the point from above on reasons was also down to some of it was inflation and other was that it’s the unpredictable nature of working on brownfield sites

Well done! That worthy of perchypanther

That was much better than the dross I usually churn out

I wondered what the guys who did the Scottish Parly and the trams were up to these days.

I wondered what the guys who did the Scottish Parly and the trams were up to these days.

Crossrail

Should have taken the opportunity to can the whole thing rather than spend millions to extend the misery. Hatefull programme.

BBC produces hardly anything I want to watch these days. Eastenders is, like all soaps, a pile of shit.

JP

Unbealevable.

Unbealevable.

I know. 3.5p per viewer hour. Holby City costs nearly treble that 🙂

Unbealevable

Well played 😉

I don’t know watts fowler, the fact that you made that pun or the fact that I laughed at it. Took me a minute to cotton on.
This sort of thing gets on peoples wicks and makes them want to legg it.

Perchy! You’ll be setting off my Ang-ina!

What’s your motivation here druid?

Anti-licence fee?

But they’re nice clean gaffs, not just any old dirty den.