The Bill's studios sold for £4.75m
Old home: The Bill was filmed at Merton Studios for more than 20 years
11 April 2012
The makers of axed ITV show The Bill today sold the south London studios where the police soap was filmed for more than 20 years.
Fremantle Media, which also produces The X Factor and The Apprentice, will collected £4.75 million in cash for the sale of Merton Studios. Property investment company Panther Securities is buying the freehold and the studios' assets.
Panther chairman Andrew Perloff and outside investors are also investing in a separate company which will run the studios. They plan to take a 10-year lease.
Talkback Thames, Fremantle's subsidiary, opened Merton Studios in 1989 as a purpose-built site for The Bill, which had already been on the air since 1984.
