Other recent credits also include: Blankety Blank, Family Fortunes and Supermarket Sweep The site was originally chosen by the now defunct ITV company Southern Television in 1979 for a proposed new studio facility should it win the contract from the Independent Broadcasting Authority (the UK television regulator at the time), for the new dual South and South-east of England region in 1981.

It was part of the agreement with the IBA that TVS needed to provide a separate studio facility for the South East region.

When TVS lost its ITV franchise, it retained the Maidstone facility with a view to becoming an independent production company.

IFE subsequently launched a UK version of The Family Channel based at Maidstone, using some elements of the TVS programme archive.

The studios were bought in 2002 by a local consortium of businessmen under the name Dovedale Associates for £4.25 million, headed by ex-BBC producer Geoff Miles.

The name Television South Ltd, TVS and the colour logo device had been re-registered to lighting cameraman Keith Jacobsen, who traded as an independent production company with no links to the original.

[6] The area including car parks and outbuildings to the east of the studio premises were bought by Hillreed Homes.