Orbital Studios Partners with Television City to Open Advanced Virtual Production Studio in Los Angeles

Television City and Orbital Studios have agreed to install a new LED volume at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, moving Orbital’s headquarters and several LED walls from the Arts District onto the historic 25-acre lot. The facility will support productions of all scales.

Television City, Orbital Studios Partner on New Hollywood Virtual Production Studio

Opened in 1952 as CBS’s first West Coast videotape studio, Television City produced shows such as “The Carol Burnett Show,” “All in the Family,” “The Price Is Right,” and “The Young and the Restless.” Designated a Historic-Cultural Monument in 2018, the lot was sold to Hackman Capital Partners for $750 million. Facing a broader industry shift that has drawn many productions to other states, the facility has opened its stages to influencers and pursued expansion to stay competitive.

Television City, Orbital Studios Partner on New Hollywood Virtual Production Studio

The partnership involves Orbital Studios founder and CEO A.J. Wedding, Television City executive director Anthony Mazziotti, and owner Hackman Capital Partners. CBS remains a historic reference point.

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Orbital’s LED volume features camera tracking, real-time rendering, AI-assisted virtual art, and location-reconstruction tools such as 3D Gaussian Splatting. Recent work includes FX’s “The Drop: A Snowfall Saga,” Netflix’s “Nemesis” (digital reconstruction of downtown Los Angeles), “Justified: City Primeval,” “History’s Greatest Heists,” and the docuseries “World War II with Tom Hanks.” Virtual production has also been used on Disney+’s “The Mandalorian” and HBO Max’s “House of the Dragon.”

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The LED volume allows productions to capture global settings without leaving Los Angeles, helping retain local creative work, crew jobs, and spending. The partnership is presented as a strategic response to the migration of filming activity to other jurisdictions.

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Anthony Mazziotti said the collaboration places Television City among the most advanced production environments while honoring its historic role. A.J. Wedding highlighted the responsibility to respect the studio’s legacy and to ensure future stories are made there.

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• “We could not be more excited to welcome Orbital Studios to Television City,” — Anthony Mazziotti, Executive Director of Stage Operations and Marketing, Television City

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• “Their work puts this lot among the most advanced production environments anywhere, while honoring everything these stages have stood for. This is exactly the kind of partnership that keeps Television City both iconic and essential.” — Anthony Mazziotti

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• “Walking these stages, you feel the weight of what was made here,” — A.J. Wedding, Founder and CEO, Orbital Studios

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• “Generations of crews poured everything they had into these rooms. That legacy makes us determined to get it right. We’re bringing the latest in virtual production technology and the most talented virtual art and AI artists inside spaces that helped define American television, because the best way to honor a storied place is to make sure the next great stories happen there, too.” — A.J. Wedding

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Orbital’s R&D lab will keep advancing AI-driven workflows while the LED volume supports upcoming episodes of “The Drop: A Snowfall Saga” and future virtual-production projects. Television City intends to market the facility to domestic and international productions.

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