“Peak TV production is behind us now,” says one senior industry executive. “The great British studio building boom is officially over. Property companies thought riding that wave would be a big success; now datacentres are the new studios.”
Four years ago the industry hit peak TV as the streaming wars fuelled a record £7.8bn spend on UK-made productions.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/09/tv-film-studios-developers-datacentres-ai-boom