Three main streets traversed around these buildings, and a 215m-long replica of the Singapore River was also constructed for filming purposes.

Originally envisioned for the local broadcaster to produce greater variety of dramas on English, Malay, and Tamil languages, Tuas TV World was aimed to break the constraints imposed by the predominantly Chinese-style set in Caldecott Broadcast Centre.

Several Television Corporation of Singapore (later Mediacorp in 1999) period dramas were filmed there including Strange Encounters 3 (1995), Tofu Street (1996), The Price Of Peace (1997), Wok of Life (1999), and Hainan Kopi Tales (2000).

[1] After about a decade of operations and declining demand for period dramas, the facility had become too costly for the broadcaster to maintain.

[4] The land on which the remaining structures of facility is currently zoned as a reserve site, with its future use yet to be determined.