Burbank, Los AngelesAlbuquerque, New Mexico
TV studio rental in Los Angeles
A turnkey television studio in Burbank for talk shows, game shows, news and live broadcasts: multi-camera, audience seating, teleprompter and 250+ sets that load in seconds.
- Multi-camera taping
- Audience seating at both studios
- Teleprompter system included
- Green rooms and dressing rooms
Or call 818-934-3775 Burbank 818-861-7317 Albuquerque
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
What's included
A TV studio rental that comes with the show's whole toolkit
Rent a turnkey television studio in Burbank, the Media Capital of the World, built for talk shows, game shows, news and press days. The set is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your host live, in camera, on our stage. You see the finished shot on the monitor while you tape, and the next look loads in seconds. Nothing is added later in post. New to it? Start with how virtual production works in Los Angeles.
A typical television studio rental in Los Angeles gives you a lit floor and a grid. The set and the team that runs it are your problem. Ours is turnkey: the studio, the technology, the operator who runs the virtual sets and 250+ ready-to-film sets are already on the floor, and set changes take seconds instead of overnight resets. Shoot the morning show set before lunch and a news block on the network news set after lunch, on the same floor. Browse every talk and game show set or newsroom and news desk set in the library.
Burbank television studio specs
- Address
- 154 S. Victory Blvd, Burbank, CA 91502, across from Nickelodeon Studios
- Studio floor
- Pre-lit green screen cyclorama; 20-ft ceiling, 15 ft to grid; silent HVAC; isolated power
- Cameras
- Three cinema cameras, each with its own Unreal Engine render, plus a 13-ft encoded jib and encoded Vinten heads
- Virtual sets
- Three Unreal Engine systems, three Ultimatte 12 keyers and Mo-Sys StarTracker camera tracking, composited live, in camera
- Prompters
- Beam-splitter and presidential teleprompters
- Audience
- Stadium-style seating built into the stage
- Video village
- A giant LED video village where the whole team watches the finished composite (a monitoring screen, not the background)
- Recording
- Multi-camera ISO and composite recording
- Live output
- A live video-linking pipeline sends the composited set out in the feed to your channel or stream
- Lighting, audio
- Fiilex and Astera lighting, a two-ton grip package, Sennheiser lavs and booms, a Yamaha mixing console
- Talent
- Five green rooms, dressing rooms, hair and makeup, production offices
- Parking
- 20+ parking spaces; drive-on load-in
Included in every rental
- The studio and the 250+ virtual set library
- Lighting and audio packages already on the floor
- The teleprompter system
- Green rooms, dressing rooms, makeup and production offices
- The operator who runs the virtual sets in real time
Optional
A crew package: three camera operators, one on the jib, plus a teleprompter operator, backed by 25+ years of network television experience. Or bring your own team.
Every show is quoted on its own. See what drives the cost.
The pre-lit green cyc also rents on its own for traditional chroma key: see green screen studio rental. Month-to-month production offices for series prep sit in the same building.
In Albuquerque: three ARRI Alexa 35 cinema cameras, a telescoping camera crane for talk and game show coverage, three teleprompters, audience seating, and dressing rooms and makeup on site. The same patented method runs there, and the studio is a New Mexico Qualified Production Facility, where qualifying spend can reach the 30% refundable rate under New Mexico's film incentives.
On the floor
Inside the television studio in Burbank
Cameras, prompters and seats for a studio audience, already in place when your crew arrives.
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Watch the reel
Talk shows, game shows, news and specials taped in our TV studios
We pioneered real-time virtual production in Burbank in 2007, now patented as CastleVision, and television has taped there ever since. Kevin Hart's Hart to Heart shot on the Burbank stage, and our clients include Warner Bros., HBO, Netflix, NBC, CBS, Amazon, BET, Paramount and Hearst. Hover to preview; click to play with sound. Tap to play with sound.
Ready for your taping
Talk show, news and game show sets that load in seconds
Each one is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your host live, in camera. Load one for the first segment and swap to the next between blocks.
Check availability
Check TV studio availability for your show
Tell us the format, episode count, cameras, audience and dates. A producer replies with availability and a quote.
- Included: the studio, the 250+ set library, lighting and audio, the teleprompter system, green rooms, and the operator who runs the virtual sets
- Audience seating at both studios, stadium-style in Burbank (see Burbank sound stage rental)
- Quoted against your actual shoot, never a rack rate
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Every TV format
TV studio rental for talk shows, game shows, news and press days
The same TV studio rental covers every multi-camera format. Pick yours and see the sets, specs and workflow built for it.
- Talk shows
- Late-night, morning, daytime and sports looks for a three-camera show. Teleprompter, jib and an optional crew with deep talk show experience. Shot here: Kevin Hart's Hart to Heart, Oh Hell No! With Marlon Wayans, the Diarra From Detroit cast-reunion special. Talk show set rental →
- Game shows
- Stadium-style audience seating in Burbank and fast multi-cam resets between rounds, with zero set-storage fees between seasons. Shot here: Fameless, Celebrity Prank Wars, Oh Sit! Game show studio rental →
- News
- Anchor desks with swappable city skylines. National, local, sports and political looks, lit for broadcast. News set rental in Los Angeles →
- Host wraps
- Batch a full season of wraparounds and promos in a day, with teleprompter, lighting and audio on the floor. Shot here: Mission Unstoppable (CBS), Jack Hanna’s Passport (ABC), Ring Nation. Host wrap sets and studio rental →
- Press junkets
- Run a full press day on a virtual set that recreates the show's world, or a talk or news backdrop that changes live per outlet. Press junket studio →
- Interview shows
- Sit-down interviews on the same turnkey talk and news sets, multi-camera, with broadcast audio. Interview and video podcast studio →
Shooting a feature, pilot or narrative project instead? That's our film studio rental: the same studios, geared for single-camera work. Spots and campaigns have their own commercial studio rental page.
Broadcast and live
Broadcast studio rental for news, live shows and specials
A broadcast studio has to do more than look good on one camera. It has to record every angle, feed a live show and keep the host on script. In Burbank, the studio records multi-camera ISO and composite at the same time, so the edit gets each clean camera and the finished picture. Beam-splitter and presidential teleprompters keep hosts and anchors on the copy, and a live video-linking pipeline sends the composited set out in the feed to your channel or stream, the same setup companies use to livestream a corporate town hall.
Producers and clients watch the finished composite on the giant LED video village in Burbank, the big screen where the whole team sees exactly what the cameras are making. It is a monitoring screen, not the background: the set is drawn by Unreal Engine and composited live, in camera. Here is how that compares with shooting on an LED volume.
For a newscast, load an anchor desk with a swappable city skyline, like the broadcast studio set, or see every desk on our news set rental page. Network specials have been produced on the same Burbank floor, from the BET Awards 2020 to John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero. In Albuquerque, the studio runs Blackmagic switching and routing with AJA Ki Pro recording and three teleprompters.
Shot here
TV shows taped in our Los Angeles television studio
Talk shows, game shows, host wraps, specials and series scenes have all been shot on the Burbank floor. A sample by format, with the full list on our TV and film credits page:
- Talk shows
- Hart to Heart with Kevin Hart (NBC/Peacock), Oh Hell No! With Marlon Wayans, Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart & Snoop Dogg, and the Diarra From Detroit cast-reunion special (BET+).
- Game shows
- Fameless, Celebrity Prank Wars, Oh Sit! and Stump’d.
- Host wraps
- Mission Unstoppable with Miranda Cosgrove (CBS), Jack Hanna’s Passport (ABC), Harlem Globetrotters: Play It Forward (NBC), The Great American Journey (NBC), Ring Nation, and host segments for Discontinued with Bruce Campbell.
- Network specials
- Celebrity Crime Scene: Princess Diana (FOX), Celebrity Crime Scene: Marilyn Monroe (FOX and TMZ), the BET Awards 2020, Graduate Together, John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero, and the 2019 FOX Fall Preview.
- Series scenes
- Scenes for Bad Thoughts (Netflix), Inventing Anna (Netflix), Bosch (Amazon) and Deadliest Catch (Discovery), plus Hilton Head Island, a 32-episode series that shot more than 50 locations without leaving the Burbank studio.
Comparing studios? Our guide to where talk shows and game shows tape in Los Angeles covers the big lots too.
How it works
How renting the TV studio works, from format to first taping
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Tell us your show
Format, episode count, cameras, audience, dates. We scope the studio, crew and schedule around the show, not the other way around.
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Pick your look
Choose from 250+ ready-to-film sets or have one customized to your brand. Your look is stored digitally: no storage fees between episodes or seasons.
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Tape, turnkey
Walk in and shoot. Sets load in seconds, the operator who runs the virtual sets is included, and what you see in the monitor is the finished shot: no set build, no strike.
Both studios run the same pipeline (how CastleVision works): L.A. Castle Studios in Burbank, the Media Capital of the World, and Albuquerque, a New Mexico Qualified Production Facility where qualifying spend can reach the state's 30% refundable film tax credit. The set library is shared, so a season can split between the two without losing its look. The engine behind it is explained on our Unreal Engine virtual production studio page.
Two shows, one day, the same floor
A traditional TV stage gives each show its own built set. A second format means a strike and an overnight reset, and between seasons you pay to store the set. Here the sets are files. Tape a talk show and a game show on the same floor the same day, with the same cameras, teleprompters and audience seating.
What moves the price of a taping day
The quote moves with shoot days, cameras, audience, crew size, how complex the set is, which studio you book and any custom environment work. See what a studio day includes and how we quote it.
Questions
TV studio rental questions
- How much does it cost to rent a TV studio in Los Angeles?
- We quote each production against its actual scope, format, days, cameras, audience and crew, rather than a rack rate. Because the studio, sets, lighting and audio, and the teleprompter system are already included, and crew is a simple add-on, your budget goes to the screen instead of building and striking a physical set. Tell us your dates and we will price it.
- Does the TV studio have audience seating?
- Yes, at both studios. The Burbank stage has stadium-style audience seating built in for game shows, talk shows and live-audience tapings, and the Albuquerque studio seats an audience too. Green rooms, makeup and dressing rooms support talent and guests. Tell us your audience size in your inquiry and we will confirm the layout.
- Is the TV studio multi-camera ready?
- Yes. Both studios run a multi-camera Unreal Engine pipeline with our patented CastleVision system, with its own render for each camera, plus teleprompters (beam-splitter and presidential in Burbank) and broadcast-grade lighting and audio. So a three-camera talk show, game show or newscast works out of the gate.
- Can we broadcast or livestream from the TV studio?
- Yes. Both studios run a live video-linking pipeline, so the composited set goes out live in the feed to your channel or stream, and viewers see the finished set, not a green screen. In Burbank the studio records multi-camera ISO and composite at the same time, so the edit also gets every clean angle. Albuquerque runs Blackmagic switching and routing with AJA Ki Pro recording.
- Do you provide crew with the TV studio rental?
- Every rental comes with the studio, sets, lighting and audio packages, the teleprompter system and an on-stage virtual system operator who runs the virtual production system for you. So you are not hiring a separate systems team on top of the studio. An optional crew package adds three camera operators, one on the jib, plus a teleprompter operator, backed by 25+ years of network television experience. Or bring your own team.
- What TV shows have shot at your studios?
- Kevin Hart's Hart to Heart and Celebrity Crime Scene: Princess Diana for FOX shot in our Burbank studio, and so did Oh Hell No! With Marlon Wayans, Fameless, host wraps for Mission Unstoppable, and network specials including the BET Awards 2020 and Graduate Together. Our clients include Warner Bros., HBO, Netflix, NBC, CBS, Amazon, BET, Paramount and Hearst. The same studio floor handles talk shows, game shows, news, host wraps and press junkets.
- Where is the TV studio in Los Angeles?
- At 154 S. Victory Blvd, Burbank, CA 91502, directly across from Nickelodeon Studios, about five minutes from Warner Bros. and roughly fifteen from Hollywood. There are 20+ parking spaces and drive-on load-in. Our second studio is at 8610 President Pl NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Can we keep the same set for every episode and season?
- Yes. Sets live on drives, so there is no storage fee between episodes or seasons. Reload the exact set, lighting and framing for pickups or a new season, even months later. We can also build a custom look to your show’s brand.
Plan your TV taping in Los Angeles
Everything a producer checks before booking a television studio.
- Talk show set rental Morning, late-night, daytime and sports looks for a three-camera show.
- Game show studio rental Audience seating and fast resets between rounds.
- News sets Anchor desks with swappable city skylines.
- Host wrap studio Batch a season of wraps and promos in a day.
- Press junket sets A backdrop that changes live for each outlet.
- Talk and game show sets in the library Morning show, sports desk and game show arenas.
- Newsroom and news desk sets Network, upscale news-talk and sports desks.
- Burbank studio: gear, rooms and directions Cameras, jib, lighting and every support room.
- Albuquerque studio Same pipeline, with the 30% refundable New Mexico credit.
- Studio tour and facility photos The floor, control desk, green rooms and makeup.
- Book a studio tour and live demo By appointment, for producers with a project.
- Rates and what is included What drives the quote: days, cameras, audience and crew.
- Shows shot here Television, film and commercial credits.
- Sound stage rental in Burbank Height to grid, parking and load-in for the same floor.
- Film studio rental Features and series at both studios.
- How CastleVision works The patented method behind the live composite.
See a TV set load in seconds, live in the studio. Tours run by appointment at both studios for producers with a project. Or send your format and dates and a producer replies with availability and a quote.
