[2] Themed screenings were held across Newcastle to allow the public access to the Tyneside Cinema experience as work on the restoration project continued.

[2] The Tyneside reopened in May 2008, following the major restoration of its original auditorium, alongside a modern extension and redevelopment of the upper floors designed by Fletcher Priest Architects and consulting engineers Cundall.

[19] A new bar, and a film learning centre called the Tyneside Studio, partly designed by filmmaker Mike Figgis, were also installed.

The cinema started a donation campaign to offset their financial losses, but CEO Holli Keeble said it was at risk of permanent closure.

[26] In November 2019, following an employment tribunal, Tyneside Cinema was found to have discriminated against a former employee who lived with mental health disabilities, and had not made reasonable adjustments to protect them.

In response, CEO Holli Keeble and chair of the board Lucy Armstrong issued a statement saying that they took "the safety and well-being of our team at Tyneside Cinema very seriously, and strive to cultivate a culture of equality and inclusivity in the workplace".

[28] Following this, over 200 current and former employees issued a counter-statement condemning the official response, stating:We feel strongly that existing training policies, grievance procedures and mechanisms for whistle-blowing are not fit for purpose.

[32][33] In the statement, Armstrong said: "We both recognise that in order to give the Tyneside Cinema the best opportunity for future success it is right that we both move aside and allow a new team to take over.

[33] A 15-page executive summary was made public on October 21, which described the review team's overall conclusions regarding the culture at the Cinema:[34]On October 22, the board of trustees issued their own statement in response, in which they accepted "all the findings and conclusions" in the report:First and foremost, we apologise profusely to anyone affected currently or previously by the culture and behaviours that have been identified as being systemic at the Cinema over the last seven years.

The report makes clear how difficult some of the 100 participants found the experience, and we thank them for their courage in coming forward and bringing the issues to light.

[33]The Tyneside Cinema won the Building Conservation and Tourism and Leisure categories as well as the overall accolade Project of the Year at the 2009 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors North East Renaissance Awards at Newcastle Civic Centre on 25 April 2009.

Judges described the Tyneside Cinema restoration as “an excellent example of a building conservation project”, calling the cinema “a successful commercial venture that has employed creative and innovative design to breathe new life into a leisure facility that is rare and in many ways unique, a project that is playing a regenerative role in the widest sense of the word”.