Real Housewives team make home at ABC Building
THE production house behind The Real Housewives Of Cheshire has been revealed as the first tenant for the new ABC Buildings development in Manchester city centre.
Farm Group also supplies the inhouse gallery, technical, creative post-production and management teams for BBC Sport and BBC Sports News. And it covers major events and tournaments including the Olympics, football, the Rugby World Cup and Wimbledon.
Farm Manchester will open a 25,000 sq ft facility at ABC, part of Enterprise City, Allied London’s new cluster for creative, tech and digital industries, based at the former site of Granada Studios.
As renovation work is underway ahead of the launch in October, Farm Manchester has been housed in The Riverside facility, just next door to the ABC Buildings.
Michael Ingall, Allied London’s chief executive, said: “We set up All Studios in 2017 to revive the iconic television studios at St John’s, since then we’ve seen a huge demand for city-centre media facilities and we’ve welcomed the likes of BBC, Netflix and Amazon. “The Farm Group’s move to The ABC Buildings – one of our key media hubs at Enterprise City – is of massive significance for the cluster and growing proof that the north will be an international destination for content production and talent. Michael Ingall, chief executive of Allied London
“The media industry is expanding rapidly as online content companies like Netflix and Amazon continue to disrupt how we buy, stream and receive media content.
“Our vision for Enterprise City will support these evolving industries to continue to grow in both scale and importance.”
Farm Manchester’s new home will be based on one floor, along with a 40-seat screening theatre.
Paul Austin, MD of Farm Manchester, said: “The news about the Farm setting up in Manchester created a real buzz and we had many clients that wanted to work with us, before the big launch in October.
“Riverside is perfect for us as it allows us to work with some of these clients and start to build up work that can carry on and finish in the new building.
“We have been blown away by the volume and quality of responses we have had so far, and the level of talent that want to work for the Farm in Manchester.”