Host Wrap Studio Rental
Host Wrap Sets & Studio Rental for TV Wraparounds
Batch-shoot a season of host wraps and wraparound segments in a day, your host live in camera in any of 250+ virtual sets.
- Mission Unstoppable shot its wraps here
- Teleprompter system and virtual set operator included
- Pickups months later, no storage fees
- Studios in Burbank and Albuquerque
Browse the set library: 250+ ready-to-load sets →
Or call 818-934-3775 Burbank 818-861-7317 Albuquerque
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Host wrap reels and set demos from our studios.
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Host wrap sets
Places to send a host without the travel.
What's included
Batch a season. Every set is already built.
- Multi-camera studio with live, in-camera compositing on every camera
- 250+ photoreal virtual sets that load in seconds, from network desks to city streets
- Teleprompter system included: beam-splitter and presidential prompters in Burbank
- Lighting, grip and audio package already rigged and tested together
- Virtual system operator included; camera, jib and teleprompter operators optional
- Green rooms, dressing rooms, makeup and production offices on site
- Holiday, tournament and sponsor versions of the same look without relighting
- Pickups months later on the exact same set, with no storage fees
- Burbank or Albuquerque: the same sets and pipeline at both studios
Productions that have trusted us
The networks, the streamers and the studios have all shot here.
Hart to Heart, Aquaman 2, Inventing Anna, Bosch, The Mummy, Greenland, Deadliest Catch and national spots for T-Mobile, Amazon and Domino's. Full credit list
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Tell us the season and how many wraps you need.
Tell us the format and your dates. A producer replies with availability and a quote.
- Included: the studio, 250+ ready-to-load sets, lighting, grip and audio, dressing and green rooms, and the operator who runs the virtual sets
- Two studios, in Burbank, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque shoots qualify for New Mexico’s 30% refundable film credit
- Quoted against your actual shoot, never a rack rate
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What is a host wrap? Wraparound segments explained
Host wraps, or wraparounds, are the short hosted segments slotted between blocks of show or movie content: intros, outros and interstitials fronted by a host. On a series they are the open, the tease into the break, the outro and the sponsor mention.
A host wrap looks simple until you are shooting 200 of them across 14 weeks, and every one has to cut together as if it was shot the same morning, even when the host is somewhere different in each.
The wraparound segments producers book a host wrap studio for:
- Season wraps for a network or syndicated series: the host open, the teases into and out of each break, the outro.
- Interstitials and bumpers: the short hosted pieces that bridge one segment or program to the next.
- Promo and sponsor versions of the same wrap: the same line re-shot with a holiday, tournament or sponsor look.
- Hosted segments inside a series, like Bruce Campbell’s segments on Discontinued, where the world behind the host changes with every topic.
Our studios are built for exactly this. Your host stands on our green screen stage, and the location is a photoreal virtual set that appears around them live, in camera. You see the finished shot on the monitor while you film, with no background added later in post, and the location can change between takes. It is the virtual production workflow we pioneered in 2007, now patented, and the operator who runs the virtual sets is included in every rental.
Host segments for CBS, ABC, NBC and E! series
Network host-wrap series have shot their host segments here: Mission Unstoppable with Miranda Cosgrove (CBS), Jack Hanna’s Passport with Alfonso Ribeiro (ABC), The Great American Journey with Kelsey Grammer (NBC), Harlem Globetrotters: Play It Forward (NBC) and Celebrity Prank Wars with Kevin Hart and Nick Cannon (E!). Most of them are Hearst Media Production Group shows.
Ring Nation host wraps were shot here too, and so were Bruce Campbell’s host segments for Discontinued. Watch the McDonald’s Arch segment and the series trailer, and the full credit list has the rest of the series, specials and features finished at our studios.
Travel-show wraparounds, shot in one studio
The set library is why a wrap does not need a plane ticket. A host can open on an Italian village street, tease the break from a New York City block and close on the red rock of the Moab desert in the same shoot day. Sets load in seconds and swap between setups, so the host changes countries between segments, not between shoot days. More looks sit in the city street sets, the mountain sets a sunlit Chinese temple courtyard and the lantern-lit lanes of an ancient Chinese canal town.
Location fees and scouting, travel, per diems, weather days and company moves between looks all come off the budget. What stays is a host in a clean, lit studio with the rundown on the prompter.
Need a look the library does not have? Our in-house set builders and artists build custom virtual environments to a production’s spec, including branded versions for a sponsor, a holiday or a tournament. For a real place, CastleVision is our patented method for filming it, with its real light and movement, and bringing it onto the stage.
A host wrap day, from call time to camera roll
- Send the rundown. The season’s segment list, the looks you want and your dates.
- Everything is ready before talent arrives. The teleprompter is cued, the lighting is locked, the audio is live and the first set is loaded.
- The host walks in, gets the wardrobe touch, and you shoot wraps until lunch. Three cameras shoot at once, each composited live.
- Change the on-camera look between blocks, a holiday version, a tournament version, a sponsor version, without breaking the lighting plot, so the entire season cuts together as a single conversation.
- Walk out with footage. In Burbank the studio records multi-camera ISO and composite, so the edit has every angle and the finished shot.
Gone are the days of piecemealing a host-wrap package from three vendors and hoping the teleprompter, the lights and the audio work together on the day. Here the lighting, grip, audio and teleprompter system are part of the rental, on site and already running. Three camera operators (one on the jib) and a teleprompter operator are optional, or bring your own crew.
The producer’s job on a wrap day is to walk in with a rundown and walk out with footage. Everything between those two points is already handled here. On a host wrap, that is exactly what you want.
Reshoot one wrap months later and it still matches
A season of wraps rarely stays finished. A sponsor changes, a line needs a fix, a network asks for another version. Pickups do not mean a rebuild. Sets live on drives, so we reload the exact set, lighting and framing, even months later, and there are no set storage fees in between. The new wrap is shot on the same set, under the same lighting, as the ones from day one. More on capturing a set before you strike it.
Burbank or Albuquerque: two host wrap studios, one set library
The Burbank studio sits in Burbank, the Media Capital of the World, directly across from Nickelodeon and about five minutes from Warner Bros. For a host wrap day it has:
- three cameras shooting at once on green, each with its own render
- beam-splitter and presidential teleprompters
- multi-camera ISO and composite recording
- Sennheiser lavs and booms and a Yamaha mixing console
- a pre-lit green cyc, with a 20-ft ceiling, 15 ft to grid and silent HVAC
- five green rooms, makeup and production offices, and 20+ parking spaces
- a giant LED video village, where the network team watches the finished composite on the big screen
The Albuquerque studio is about ten minutes from the Sunport. It has three ARRI Alexa 35 cinema cameras, three teleprompters, Sennheiser lavs and booms, an Allen & Heath SQ7 console, AJA Ki-Pro recording, a star-talent motorhome, dressing and makeup rooms, and extensive parking. ABQ Castle Studios is a New Mexico Qualified Production Facility, so qualifying in-state spend there can earn New Mexico’s 30% refundable film credit. The New Mexico film tax credit page explains how it pays out.
Every set in the virtual set library is available at both studios on the same pipeline, so a show can split a season between them without losing continuity.
How a season of wraps is priced
Every production is quoted individually. There is no rate card. The quote follows shoot days, crew size, set complexity, custom environment work and which studio you use. Out-of-town shows fly in with the host and a rundown, so send the season’s segment list, the looks you want and your dates, and we price the studio days before anyone books travel. See how a production is priced.
If the host is anchoring a whole show rather than the segments around it, start with our talk show sets, or compare formats on the TV studio rental page. A full day of interviews with the same talent is a press junket; see press junkets on a virtual set. The same batch-day workflow also powers corporate virtual production: training libraries, internal comms and branded segments, shot the same way.
Produced at our studios
Host wraps shot at L.A. & ABQ Castle Studios.
Network hosts and full seasons of wraparounds, batch-shot at our studios.
Celebrity Prank Wars: Kevin Hart & Nick Cannon
© E! Entertainment
The Great American Journey: Kelsey Grammer
© Hearst / NBC
Mission Unstoppable: Miranda Cosgrove
© CBS
Jack Hanna's Passport: Alfonso Ribeiro
© Hearst / ABC
Play It Forward: Kenny Smith
© Hearst / NBC
Series titles, logos and images are the property of their respective networks and producers. They are shown here solely to illustrate host-wrap production completed at our studios; no affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement is implied.
Sample gallery
Host wrap sets in use at our studios.
A look at host wraps shot at L.A. & ABQ Castle Studios.
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Selected credits
- Mission Unstoppable CBS
- Celebrity Prank Wars E!
- Jack Hanna's Passport ABC
- The Great American Journey NBC
- Play It Forward NBC
- Ring Nation
- Discontinued
Questions
Host wrap studio questions producers ask.
- What is a host wrap?
- Host wraps, or wraparounds, are the short hosted segments slotted between blocks of show or movie content: intros, outros and interstitials fronted by a host. Teases into the break and sponsor mentions count too. Producers batch-shoot full seasons of them here in a day, in a multi-camera studio, every one cut to match.
- How long is a host wrap?
- Short. Think of a 60-second segment fronted by a host, slotted between blocks of the show. The work is in the volume: a season means dozens of wraps that all have to cut together, which is why they are batch-shot in a day on a multi-camera studio floor.
- What is the difference between a host wrap, an interstitial and a promo?
- A host wrap frames the program: the host opens it, teases the break and closes it. An interstitial is a short piece that fills the gap between segments or programs, and a hosted one is a wrap by another name. A promo sells the show or an upcoming episode. All three are short, host-led and scripted to a rundown, so producers usually batch them on the same day, in the same studio.
- Can you batch-shoot a full season of host wraps in a day?
- Yes. The studio is built for it. A multi-camera workflow, a teleprompter system cued before the host arrives and virtual sets that swap in seconds let you turn around dozens of segments in a single day, with repeatable lighting so every wrap cuts together as if shot the same morning.
- What's included with a host wrap shoot?
- The studio, the virtual sets, a lighting, grip and audio package, the teleprompter system, green rooms, dressing rooms, makeup and production offices, and the virtual system operator who runs the sets. Camera, jib and teleprompter operators are an optional package, or bring your own crew.
- Is a teleprompter operator included?
- The teleprompter system is included in every rental. The operator is part of the optional crew package (three camera operators, one on the jib, plus a teleprompter operator), or you can bring your own. The operator who runs the virtual sets is always included.
- Can a host wrap look like it was shot on location?
- Yes. The host stands on our green screen stage and a photoreal virtual set, such as a sunlit Mediterranean village, a green mountain landscape or a European forest, appears around them live, in camera. You see the finished shot on the monitor while you film, the location can change between takes, and there are no location fees, travel, per diems or weather days. Sets load in seconds and swap between setups the same day, so one host can cover several locations without a company move.
- Can we come back later in the season for pickups?
- Yes. Sets live on drives, so pickups do not mean a rebuild. We reload the exact set, lighting and framing, even months later, and there are no set storage fees in between.
- Should we shoot host wraps in Burbank or Albuquerque?
- Either. Both studios run the same pipeline and share the full set library, so a show can even split a season between them. Our Burbank studio, in the Media Capital of the World, has beam-splitter and presidential teleprompters and a giant LED video village where the team watches the finished composite. Albuquerque is a New Mexico Qualified Production Facility, so qualifying in-state spend there can earn New Mexico's 30% refundable film credit.
- How do we get a quote for a season of host wraps?
- Send the segment list, the looks you want and your dates. Every production is quoted individually, based on shoot days, crew size, set complexity and which studio you use. A producer, not a sales queue, reads the inquiry and replies with availability at both studios and a quote.
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- The Burbank studio Burbank, the Media Capital of the World, minutes from the major lots
- The Albuquerque studio Feature films and New Mexico’s 30% refundable credit
- The set library Every set, searchable by room and theme
- Rates and what drives the cost How a production is priced
- Tour the facility What is on site at each studio
- Credits Features, series and shows finished here
Tours run by appointment at both studios. Bring the script or the rundown and we will price the shoot against it.
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