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What schools can look forward to at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London

2019-11-20T10:17:00+00:00

The award-winning attraction for schools has announced new and returning features for next year.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter

Schools can take part in a number of educational workshops at the studio.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London runs an education programme with links to the National Curriculum, and the attraction received the School Travel Award for Best Venue for English Learning in 2017/18. As well as lessons and workshops, UK schools are eligible for school rates that include an entrance ticket to the Studio Tour as well as a 45 minute lesson, broomstick experience, pre-visit tickets for teachers and a number of downloadable resources.

Considering booking a tour for next year? Here’s the schedule of special events to look out for:

Introducing the Art Department

Dates: Friday 14th – Monday 24th February.

Visitors can study the work of the Art Department, which is responsible for a huge amount of Harry Potter props such as the Daily Prophet newspapers and Harry’s Hogwarts acceptance letters. A range of techniques such as wand-making will be showcased and displays will include technical drawings, concept art, prop-making and white card models.

A Celebration of Slytherin

Dates: Friday 3rd April – Sunday 6th September.

Slytherin fans can look forward to a special celebration of the infamous house next year, and see the Great Hall bedecked in the house colours of green and silver for the very first time – including the films’ original banners. Props and costumes belonging to key Slytherin characters will also be on display throughout the Studio Tour.

Dates: Friday 25th September – Sunday 8th November.

The Halloween feature returns next year and so does its dark, scary version of Diagon Alley. The Great Hall will be prepared for a Halloween feast with seasonal food and floating pumpkins, and visitors can watch live wand demonstrations displaying how the films’ battle scenes were directed.

Hogwarts in the Snow

Dates: Saturday 14th November – Sunday 17th January 2021.

The festive event returns next year adding seasonal cheer to a number of the Studio Tour’s displays. Christmas decorations will appear in the Gryffindor common room and the Great Hall will be made up in Yule Ball style. The scale model of Hogwarts will be covered in a blanket of snow and visitors can also discover the different kinds of fake snow that were used in the films to create different effects.

Find out more about the Studio Tour’s education programme and rates at www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/schools .

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A Magical Guide to the Warner Bros Studio Tour in London: Everything You Need to Know

Last Updated: February 16, 2022

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Fact: In my entire life, I’ve only cried once at a tourist attraction.

And judge me all you want, but this cryfest happened at a Harry Potter studio tour.

… Allow me to explain myself.

Like most children born in the 90s, much of my youth was spent daydreaming about the arrival of my Hogwart’s acceptance letter. As this dream dwindled with the hardships of adulting, I instead took comfort in carbs and magical movie marathons.

But, it didn’t take much for these childhood dreams to resurface. A trip to London was all it took to re-open the floodgates (literally).

Let me tell you: for a Harry Potter fan, there is no attraction on this Earth more overwhelming and amazing than the  Warner Bros Studio Tour London, (AKA London’s Harry Potter set tour), which brings you through the filming site for all 8 movies in the Harry Potter franchise.

In addition to sets, you’re also shown countless props, the best gift shop in the world, and even a chance to taste butter beer for yourself. Come on now, is it at all a surprise that I bawled when I got to the end?

Read onwards for important info to know about the tour, some tips to keep in mind and of course, a recap of the experience (with plenty of photos!) Be careful for this section, as spoilers are abound!

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PS: Check out my full list of Harry Potter themed attractions and experiences in London for more nerdy goodness.

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Basic information to know about the Harry Potter Set Tour

If you’re interested in booking the epic Warner Bros Studio Tour in London for yourself, then here are some basic must-knows.

Harry Potter Studio Tour Tickets Info:

I first visited this attraction in 2014 and it was a hot mess then, and has only grown in popularity in the past few years.

If this Harry Potter set tour is a must-do for you, then make sure you book your tickets WELL in advance or you risk not being able to go!

Luckily, even when tickets are sold out on the main site, there are tours you can book online that will have tickets available for sold out dates.

Sometimes, booking with a tour is worthwhile because you not only guarantee your tickets, you also get the convenience of private transport there, which is nice and much less stressful than using public transport yourself.

Here is a breakdown of different Harry Potter Studio tour options that include transport. For your convenience, I also lay out their costs and what they have to offer:

Tickets can also be purchased online from the studio itself  here.

How to Get to the Warner Bros Studio Tour in London:

Despite its name, the Warner Bros Studio London is actually located in Leavesden, which is northwest of London.

While booking a tour/private transport is the easiest and most convenient way to get there, it is still quite painless to reach via public transit, as a shuttle bus runs from Watford Junction railway station.

To get to the Watford Junction station, you need to make use of London’s overground system.

Not sure about the best route to get there? Check out this handy trip planner .  The tour’s website recommends that you arrive at Watford Junction 45 minutes prior to your tour time.  

Remember to bring change, as the cost for the shuttle bus is 2 pounds each way.

NOTE : Leave a lot of leeway for you to get there. We definitely got lost a few times due to the transfers, and were stressed to the max! For a more stress-free experience, consider prebooking a tour that comes with transport. Here’s one for under $100USD.

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Tips for Doing the Harry Potter Set Tour Like a Pro

Having addressed the basics, here are some tips you should keep in mind when planning your visit:

1. Check on the Warner Bros Studio Tour website for special events

The studio tour often has special weeks during which there are specialized displays or demonstrations.

If you have quite some time in London, I suggest looking up when special events are happening and to plan accordingly.

I was luckily around for the beginning of Wand Week, so I got to see wandmakers do their thing and I even got to pose with some Death Eaters. Super cool!

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2. Allow extra time for travel

Especially if you are new to London, trying to navigate the transit there can take time, so give yourself plenty of time to arrive at the studio.

That being said, do not hyperventilate if your ticketed time is fast approaching. While the reservation system does assign you a time, they won’t turn you away if you are a bit late.

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3. Don’t forget to print your Warner Bros Studio Tour ticket

This will make the whole process smoother.

One girl that came with us didn’t print hers and upon arrival, she realized that her order never actually went through.

Luckily, even though they claim there is no box office at the attraction, she was able to purchase a ticket there, but do book in advance to save yourself the trouble.

4. Set yourself a budget for magical souvenirs

Trust me, when you enter the Harry Potter Studio Tour Shop for the first time, you will lose all sense of self control.

You will suddenly want all these things that you would never need.

Legit wizard robe? Okay!

Replica wand? Yes please.

There are so many amazingly crafted souvenirs for sale that you will easily empty your wallet.

For budget-conscious backpackers (like me) or large families with crying children, setting a budget beforehand is a must.

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5. Grab yourself a free Warner Bros Studio Tour London passport

At some point during the tour, you might notice children getting awesome embossed stamps on a Harry Potter passport.

Uh, yeah, those are actually not just for kids!

I shamelessly (and sweetly) asked a staff member for one, and they kindly obliged.

Getting the stamps is fun and having a Harry Potter passport is pretty much the best souvenir ever.

6. Be sure to check out other Harry Potter filming locations around the UK too

If you’ve made it all the way to Leavesden, you’re actually pretty close to a variety of other Harry Potter filming locations!

While this set tour is of course incredible, there are dozens of other real-life filming locations scattered around the UK that you can visit for yourself. Click here for a full list.

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Harry Potter Set Tour Recap with Photos

With those tips out of the way, I’d love to show you some photos and a brief overview of the experience from my visit in 2014. Note that they have added a lot since then, but still…

WARNING: spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. 

Some would say that the best way to experience this tour is by seeing everything first hand, but if you are curious to see photos and more, feel free to scroll further.

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Your magical experience begins as soon as you walk into the building. All around the lobby are canvases with various Harry Potter characters, as well as props and other cool artifacts hanging off the walls.

Even the task of waiting in line (typically the most mundane thing ever) is a joy for this tour.

The queue moves very quickly and there is plenty for you to nerd out about as you wait.

Most notably, Harry’s  cupboard under the stairs , is right next to the queuing area, ensuring that you get a perfect view of this iconic set.

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You’ll notice that groups are taken in based on their spot in line, rather than their timed reservation.

This is why there is some flexibility when it comes to your arrival time.

If you’re a few minutes late, no worries, just hop in the queue and you will make it in all-the-same.  

The tour begins with a brief video introduction to the franchise, followed by a preshow featuring Rupert, Daniel and Emma themselves.

As this preshow concludes, the screen reveals the doors to the  Great Hall!  During my tour, they invited any birthday kids to come up and help open the doors.

After  seriously  wishing it was my birthday, I bitterly watched two ecstatic kids live out their childhood dreams, revealing the first stop of the tour, the amazing…

1. Great Hall!

This is the the only part of the tour where your time will be limited, as they let tour groups in every few minutes.

As such, if you want photos, be sure to snap them  quickly !

Being in this room is an unreal feeling. In addition to the long tables, cutlery and elaborate set pieces, you also get to view costumes from students in each house, and important Hogwarts faculty as well!

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2. The Big Room

After your time in the Great Hall, you are brought into the  Big Room , which houses a variety of sets, props and costumes.

Here, you are given free reign to explore for yourself and gawk at all the amazing pieces the room contains!

Highlights for me were definitely the  Potions classroom  (complete with a Snape costume on display),  the Gryffindor Common Room  and  the Weasley House .

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Many of the sets also have interactive buttons where you can make objects move by pressing them.

This was especially cool in the Weasley kitchen, where the touch of a button could make an iron move on its own, make vegetables chop themselves, etc. Super neat!

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For those seeking a sweet photo opp, there are several green screen opportunities to ride a broom as a Quidditch player and more! I didn’t wait in line for this bit, but it definitely looked like a lot of fun! Here are some photos from the Big Room:

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3. The Backlot

After perusing the Big Room, you are brought outside to the  Backlot , home to a variety of sets including Harry’s  Privet Drive home , the  Hogwarts Bridge , the  Knight Bus  and of course,  the concession stands!  

It’s at this point in the tour that you can live out your childhood fantasy of sipping a nice, cold  butterbeer.  

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Be sure to explore the bridge before you purchase a butterbeer, as no food or drink is allowed on that set. 

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Now, while public opinion seems to be split on the taste of butterbeer, I have to say that  I. loved. every. single. sip.  

It’s very possible that I was blinded by the magic of my surroundings, but I would argue that it’s worth a try regardless!

NOTE: If you want to purchase a souvenir cup, remember to bring a bag or something to wrap it in, as that stuff can get mighty sticky. Here’s a sample of the cool things you’ll see in the backlot!

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4. Art Department, Creature Effects and Diagon Alley

When you’re ready to go back inside, countless wonders from the  creature effects & art department  await you. Here, you really get to appreciate the depth of work put into creating a whole magical world.

I was really wowed by everything.

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In this area, you will see masks, wigs, models and more of your favourite magical creatures.

In this second half of the tour as well, you get to walk through Diagon Alley. The details and work in the set will absolutely blow you away. The shops look so real, you’ll be tempted to go knocking on their doors.

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5. Hogwarts Castle Model

And lastly, the grand finale of the Harry Potter set tour… The model of Hogwarts!

This one here is a real showstopper.

A walkway surrounding the model allows you to view it from all angles, taking in the fine details of this wonderful school.

For many Harry Potter fans, seeing the castle like this is a dream come true. Now, if only it were real!

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At the end of the tour, just before the entrance of the Harry Potter Studio Tour Shop, you will see this wonderfully beautiful quote appear on the screen:

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It was at this point that  I began to bawl.  I couldn’t help it!

Everything that I loved about the series had been shown to me in the past few hours, and for that short period of time, I got to live out my dream of seeing the magical world that made my childhood.

Messy and gross, I walked into the gift shop, which was a massive treasure trove of things you never knew you wanted or needed. Wands for every character? I’ll take 100.

And there you have it,  the most magical experience ever . One day, I  will   visit the Wonderful Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but until then, I think this tour has given me enough happy & geeky memories to last. …. At least for the next little while.

Any more questions about visiting the Warner Bros Studio Tour in London?

 Over to you – have you ever been to the Warner Bros Studio Tour in London? IF NOT, THEN WTF ARE YOU WAITING FOR? No jk, uh I meant to ask, which part would you most look forward to?!

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7 thoughts on “A Magical Guide to the Warner Bros Studio Tour in London: Everything You Need to Know”

Enjoyed every bit of your blog article.Much thanks again. Really Cool.

Thanks for reading! 🙂

bookmarked!!, I like your blog!

thanks Jane!! 😀

Hi Christina! I’m going to be traveling alone to London this week, would the Harry Potter tour be fun for a solo traveler? Also, I was considering buying a groupon for a night tour, but the picture of you holding the butter beer appears to be outside? I guess we would be missing this part of the tour if I went at night then eh?

hi Lisa, I hope this comment isn’t too late! but YES YES YES the tour would 100% still be fun as a solo traveler (provided that you like Harry Potter haha). I didn’t realize they had a special night tour, but the butterbeer was outside in a special lot where they had lots of big props and set pieces (it’s part of the tour) so I can’t imagine they would leave it out for any reason. I have my fingers crossed for you!

Thank you for this article and the pics. I always need to take a peek of the atmosphere beforehand since I’m going solo. I hope they will let me use my selfie stick inside.

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The Ultimate Guide to visiting the Warner bros Studio Tour

The warner bros studio tour ultimate guide.

Warner Bros may be a household name thanks to producing some of the most famous films in history, but the London Warner Bros Studio Tour at Leavesden Studios is famous for one thing and one thing only: The Making of Harry Potter.

Located about 20 miles from central London, Leavesden Studios served as a key filming location for some of the most iconic scenes in all eight of the Harry Potter films. Over a span of ten years, approximately 588 different Harry Potter sets were constructed at the studio, with the most notable being Hogwarts’ Great Hall for Harry Potter And The Philosophers’ Stone (which was one of the first sets to be built at the studio), Dumbledore’s office (as seen in Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets), and the massive Ministry of Magic (which apparently took nearly 22 weeks to build for Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix).

Once filming wrapped for the final Harry Potter film, the studio was left with so many artefacts and studio sets, Warner Bros decided to expand the studio to develop The Making of Harry Potter into a permanent exhibition in 2012. Thanks to the exhibition, nearly 6,000 Harry Potter fans from all over the world visit the studio each day to see some of the many iconic costumes, props and sets that were used in the Harry Potter films over the years.

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Highlights The Warner Bros Studio Tour

From taking a stroll along Diagon Alley, to going aboard the Hogwarts Express, the Warner Bros Studio Tour will make Harry Potter fans feel more spellbound than Neville Longbottom being cast with the Full Body-Bind curse after catching Harry, Hermione and Ron sneaking out of their dormitories.

Visitors will get the chance to glance over portraits in Dumbledore’s office, stare at boxes upon boxes of wands in Ollivanders’ Wand Shop, and even get up close and personal with some horrifying deatheaters and Aragog, Hagrid’s beloved massive, hairy spider. You can also see Harry Potter’s bedroom under the stairs at Privet Drive, Hogwarts school uniforms, and even bump shoulders with Dumbledore, Mad Eye Moody, Dobby and Harry Potter himself.

Not just limited to the tour, visitors can also try out some delicious Butterbeer at the backlot area, buy some chocolate frogs at the Studio Shop, and even take a ride on a broomstick in a green screen technology room so you can take a photo home with you as a souvenir.

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Getting There

Visiting the warner bros studio tour.

Recommended visiting time is around three hours, but if you’re a hardcore Harry Potter fan, you might find yourself spending as long as five hours strolling around the entire studio. During the busier periods, be prepared to wait in a queue around 15 minutes to 30 minutes before entering the venue.

All tickets for the studio tour must be purchased beforehand, and you can collect your tickets at one of the ticket windows outside the studio before entering. You can receive your ticket confirmation either by post or by e-mail, and must show your confirmation to the Car Park Team upon your arrival.

It is highly recommended that you arrive at the studio 20 minutes before your reserved time slot, and be aware that your bags will be searched upon entry by security personnel. If you arrive extra early for your tour, you can access the Studio Cafe or the Studio Shop before you begin your tour.

There are storage facilities for coats, bags, pushchairs and small suitcases that are free of charge in the studio’s lobby cloakroom, and toilet facilities located throughout the studio.

In the studio’s backlot area, visitors can purchase a cup of Butterbeer (a non-alcoholic beverage), and munch on shortbread and butterscotch. You can even take home your Butterbeer stein as a souvenir for £6.95.

There are digital guides available in nine different languages, as well as souvenir guidebooks and activity passports for children which can be picked up at the lobby.

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Ticket prices and Opening hours

Tour times vary depending on what time of the year you visit, however you can expect the first tour to start between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., and the last tour to start anywhere between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Tickets for the Warner Bros Studio Tour cost:

  • £35 for adults (aged 16 years and over).
  • £27 for children between the ages of five and 15.
  • Free for children under the ages of four
  • £36.95 for complete studio packages for children
  • £44.95 for complete studio packages for adults
  • £33 per adult or £25.50 per child for groups of ten to 24 people

Digital guides are available for £4.95, and can be pre-booked with your tickets so you can pick them up once you arrive at the lobby. If you are travelling in a group of three or four people, there are discounted group packages of Digital Guides available for £12.95.

Souvenir Guidebooks are also available for purchase and cost £9.95.

If you are checking out the Warner Bros Studio Circus you might also want to join any of the  free London tours  that are available on offer.

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Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter: where world famous witchcraft and wizardry filmmaking comes to life.

Discover the magic of the big screen and the behind-the-scenes secrets of the Harry Potter ™ film series. Take your students on an enchanting tour of the actual sets used in the films; complete with authentic props and real costumes. You'll see animatronic characters and experience the stunning special effects along the way. Warner Bros. Studio Tour London celebrates and educates visitors of the artistry and craftsmanship in quality film production - on both sides of the camera.

Want to learn even more? School groups can enjoy specially-created educational lessons to complement and enhance the tour in brand new, state-of-the-art learning spaces. These lessons offer students authentic and relevant learning experiences in one of the most exciting and magical contexts: the production of Harry Potter . The film series is used as a case study to explain elements of film production, all of which align with KS2, 3, 4 and 5 learning objectives.

The lessons are particularly valuable to groups studying STEM, Art and Design, Media and Film, English, and Business Studies. Topics covered include:

  • Costume Characterisation
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  • Screenplay Writing
  • Movie Marketing
  • Movie Graphic Design
  • Instructional Writing
  • Camera Choices
  • The Script to Screen process
  • Careers in the Creative Industries

The Harry Potter Studio Tour and educational lessons offer a truly unique and memorable opportunity: to experience the magic of film production at the heart of one of the most popular series to date.

Get in touch for more information on a school trip to Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter. Our team can tailor the perfect trip to suit your class' needs - call today on 0845 293 7970.

Harry Potter World School Trip FAQs

What are the opening times of the studio tour.

The Warner Bros Studio Tour opening times vary depending on the season. However, on weekdays the studio tour typically opens at 09:30 and closes at 20:00. During holidays and weekends the studio tour opens at 08:30 and typically closes at 22:00. Due to the volume of visitors, we have to pre-book groups as soon as possible for the best chance of getting a ticket.

How long is the Harry Potter London Tour?

The average visit to the Warner Bros Studio Tour lasts between three and four hours. You are not limited to this amount of time and can spend as long as you like at the attraction.

What can you expect from the tour?

On the Warner Bros Studio Tour you will visit numerous original sets from the Harry Potter film series as well as two soundstages. There are also many interactive elements of the studio tour and you can also pay for extras, such as a drink of butterbeer and the opportunity to 'fly' a broomstick.

Can you bring your own food and drink to the studio tour?

You can bring food and drink into the Warner Bros Studio Tour but you are not allowed to consume food on the tour. There are numerous locations where you can purchase food and drink during your visit to the studios including The Backlot Café, The Main Food Hall and the Chocolate Frog Café.

Is WiFi available at the Warner Bros studio tour?

There is complimentary WiFi available during your school trip to the Warner Bros Studio Tour.

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Primary school trips .

A primary school trip to London enables pupils to discover many aspects of their curriculum in a short space of time. Our personalised itinerary packages can ensure that your pupils visit Harry Potter World on their trip to London.

Learn more about our Primary School Trips to London here

Cultural Trips 

For a school trip that will inspire your students, you need to look no further than our very own capital city. We can create a cultural tour suited to you, which offers pupils the opportunity to visit the Harry Potter World.

Find out more about our cultural trips to London .

Media and Film Trips 

A media & film studies trip to London simply must encompass a Warner Bros. Studio Tour. A trip to to Harry Potter World is an incredible opportunity for students to experience the film production process at the heart of one of the popular film series.

Find out more about our Media & Film School Trips to London here.

English Trips

For a school trip that will inspire your English students, you need to look no further than a trip to Harry Potter World. Pupils can enjoy educational lessons alongside the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in state-of-art learning spaces.

Find out more about our English Trips to London here.

Planning your first school trip?

If you're planning your first school trip, our essential guide will take you through each step of the process.

  • Choosing your destination
  • Gaining approval from your Local Authority and/or your Head
  • Promoting your tour in school
  • Confirming your booking
  • Tailor-make your tour
  • Completing your risk assessments (including a sample risk assessment)
  • Quick reference timeline
  • Pre-tour checklist

Additional support, resources & information:

Tour planning service

With NST, you’ll get your own dedicated, knowledgeable Tour Co-ordinator who’ll work with you from start to finish. You’ll benefit from their unrivalled destination knowledge, and their experience gained from working with many other groups too. They’ll tailor-make your itinerary from scratch and take care of everything for you:

  • Pulling together an itinerary that runs smoothly
  • Planning the right balance of visits every day with realistic timings
  • Pre-arranging and pre-booking your visits, entrance tickets, passes and meals

You’ll receive your final itinerary a full 4-weeks before you travel too.

FREE school trip promotion pack

We’ll support you and provide everything you need to advertise your school trip around school and to parents. Our free school trip promotion pack consists of:

  • Parents’ letter & permission slip template for you to complete
  • A3 posters to promote your trip around school
  • PowerPoint presentation templates which you can tailor to your own needs
  • Parents’ leaflets covering how NST manage safety, financial protection and details of our travel insurance
  • Online parents’ video which showcases the benefits of taking a school trip

For selected destinations, we’ll provide a trip launch web page using video footage and imagery. This web page is provided by a weblink and can be shared with pupils and parents in many ways.

Risk assessment support including preview visits

Risk assessment plays a vitally important part in the planning and organisation on any school tour. Our risk assessment guide aims to help you understand more about your obligations and how you can more effectively manage group safety on your next educational visit and provide you with risk assessments for your trip.

Planning first school trip

Organising your first school trip can appear to be a daunting process.  If you're planning your first school trip, our guide will help to take you through each step of the planning process, answering frequently asked questions and providing tips and support along the way.  Our helpful guide covers the following: 

  • Choosing your destination 
  • Gaining approval from your Local Authority and/or your Head 
  • Promoting your tour in school 
  • Completing your risk assessments (including a sample risk assessment) 
  • Quick reference timeline 
  • Pre-tour checklist 

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Locate My Trip uses GPS technology and is the easy, convenient way for your school to follow your location whilst on tour. Specifically designed to provide reassurance to both parents and teachers, NST will know where your group are 24/7. If your schedule needs to change, we’ll put plans in place to keep your tour on track. 

With Locate My Trip your group can also share photos and videos with the school and parents, via a secure link, to keep them updated on your experience whilst you’re away.

Watch our short Locate My Trip video here .

Your online school trip organiser - My Tour Manager

Save time and stay on track with your school trip admin with our online orgnaniser - designed to help busy teachers like you.  With My Tour Manager, you'll be able to download FREE resources and access trip paperwork online and in one place. Your personalised checklist details what you need to do and by when, plus you'll receive fortnightly reminders too.  What's more, you can take all your trip documents on the go whilst on your tour with our app, My Tour Manager-On-the-Go.  Find out more and watch out short My Tour Manager video here

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We've created a range of free resources and educational posters to brighten up your classroom!  Take a look at our downloadable posters here

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Our team of school travel experts have unrivalled destination knowledge and experience so they can help to bring your tour ideas to life and might even suggest options you hadn’t already thought of too! So get in touch today and we'll help to create a bespoke, budget-friendly tour itinerary to meet your specific learning requirements.

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Your dedicated Tour Co-ordinator will use their unrivalled local knowledge and expertise to create a tailor-made, curriculum-linked itinerary to meet your group’s exact needs.

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With our online school trip organiser , travel app , free classroom posters and trip launch resources to support your in-school promotion.

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We offer a free inspection visit to your chosen destination to support your risk assessment planning. 

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We’re committed to bringing you the best possible value trips to help make every penny count.

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With over 50 years’ experience , with NST you can rest assured that your group is in safe hands.

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Our risk assessment guidance will help you to manage group safety on your next educational trip.

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Your group’s location can be followed with our trip tracking device - Locate My Trip - plus you’ll have 24/7 support from us whilst you’re away. ​

  • Offsetting carbon emissions

For every trip taken, we'll plant a Maya nut tree in Peru to support reforestation, local communities & biodiversity. Plus, we'll offset an additional tonne of CO2 to guarantee carbon emission reductions. 

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Don’t forget – if your school arranges transport, accommodation and other services directly, you’ll be liable under the Package Travel Regulations – meaning you’ll have all the responsibilities of a travel company, both legal and financial. 

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What will students see and do.

Wands at the ready! Give students the chance to experience the magical world of filmmaking on a school trip to the set of Harry Potter at Warner Bros.’ London studio.

An educational visit to the Warner Bros UK Studio Tour will allow children to explore iconic film sets from one of the most successful series of all time.

You don’t have to be on a filmmaking degree to enjoy the magic of mechanical props or clever camera work. Pupils will be able to see first-hand some of the quintessential props from the series, such as Harry Potter’s Sorting Hat or magical creatures like Buckbeak and Aragog.

Not only will students have the rare opportunity to see props and costumes from Harry Potter and tour the stunning sets, but each school visit also includes a 45-minute lesson led by the site’s qualified teachers and an exciting green-screen broomstick experience.

Children will also learn how artistry and technology both feed into filmmaking with a series of exciting workshops that use hands-on learning activities to bring lessons to life. Visit the website for a full list of the workshops available.

How does the trip link to the curriculum?

Looking for school trip ideas that will allow students to explore their creativity and boost their skills across English, art and STEM subjects? At Warner Bros. Studio Tour London, children can take part in a number of workshops aimed at Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.

In the Studio Tour’s Art & Design workshop, students will explore the many design processes associated with filmmaking, including costume design courses and prop making. Pupils will delve deeper into the technical processes of bringing a film to life in the brand-new STEM workshop.

Elsewhere, children will improve their English language skills with interactive courses that target writing for film and television. Students will learn to follow a screenplay format, and by the end of the day they’ll be able to answer the question “what is a storyboard?”

Qualified by Learning Outside the Classroom, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour offers a fantastic way to engage students in outdoor learning and play. Staff members will be available throughout the tour to answer any questions.

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Teaching resources provided.

Free pre- and post-tour teaching resources are available to download from the website to support your lesson plan.

Activity worksheets cover topics including film set design and prop design, as well as showing students how to write a screenplay and how to plan a scene with a storyboard template.

Browse more ideas for  teaching with Harry Potter .

Minimum and maximum group size

Educational trips can host a minimum of 20 students and a maximum of 90 students.

Details of risk assessment

Details of the studio’s school trip risk assessment can be found online. Free planning visits are available for teachers.

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Facilities On-Site

School groups can access a picnic area prior to entering the Studio Tour or upon leaving. An outside seated area is located in the backlot where groups can eat packed lunches with other visitors.

A lunchroom is also available on a first-come-first-served basis. Lunch boxes can be pre-ordered for students on the morning of your tour.

Other restaurants and cafés on site include the Chocolate Frog Café, which serves sweet treats, the Hub Café, which serves Starbucks drinks and snacks, the Food Hall and the Backlot Café, which both serve hot and cold dishes. The iconic Butterbeer drink can be purchased at the Backlot Café.

Gifts and souvenirs can be purchased at the Studio’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter shops, including the Studio Shop, the Forbidden Forest Shop and the Railway Shop. To maximise your time and avoid queues, pre-paid bags can be made up for every child.

Opening Times

School trip lessons last 45 minutes and start at 9.30am, 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm.

It is recommended that you allow 3.5-4.5 hours for your visit.

Primary school trips cost £17.75 per person, with one free teacher place for every five students.

Secondary school trips cost £20.50 per person, with one free teacher place for every 10 students.

All prices include the cost of Warner Bros. Studio Tour London tickets.

Please note that tickets for school groups must be booked at least six weeks in advance.

Travel arrangements

Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter Studios in London is located about three miles from Junction 6 on the M1 and around three miles from Junction 19 or 20 on the M25, and it is clearly signposted from both junctions.

A free car park is located on-site a short walk from the entrance. On arrival, show your confirmation email to a member of the Car Park team. A staff member will escort you from your coach to the Studio Tour. Students will all go through security on arriving – please ensure they are not carrying any sharp objects, such as scissors, compasses or cutlery.

Up to two coach drivers will be able to receive a complimentary ticket to the Studio Tour. These can be picked up at a Ticket Collection window.

Those travelling longer distances can find a number of hotels near the Harry Potter studios in the Watford area.

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Warner bros. discovery stock drops as wall street reacts to earnings and lack of guidance.

On its earnings call, management expressed more confidence about the road ahead, but didn't detail 2024 financial guidance — resulting in skepticism from financial observers.

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Warner Bros. Discovery and its stock were in Wall Street’s focus Friday as analysts dissected its fourth-quarter and 2023 earnings report and management’s lack of outright 2024 guidance.

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On the call, management expressed more confidence about the road ahead, but didn’t detail 2024 financial guidance.

As of 11:30 a.m. ET, shares of the entertainment giant were down 11.4 percent at $8.47 after hitting a 52-week low and its lowest point since the merger that created it in April 2022 earlier in the trading session — $8.25.

Bank of America analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich ‘s team maintained a “buy” rating with a $17 price target, noting, “with the strikes now over and early signs of the advertising market stabilizing, we believe the company remains positioned for a recovery in 2024. The company should be aided by a restarting TV production, a solid film slate, an improving ad market and the launch of DTC in several international markets.”

Guggenheim Securities analyst Michael Morris noted, “the company did not provide 2024 adjusted EBITDA guidance (qualitatively or quantitatively) and provided some puts/takes affecting [free cash flow],” the analyst noted. But he maintained his “buy” rating with a $14 stock price target following what he dubbed “mixed” fourth-quarter results.

TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz reiterated his “outperform” rating and $15 stock price target, but similarly noted: “Management provided some general expectations for 2024 but did not provide explicit EBITDA guidance, unlike the past few years.”

The TD Cowen analyst also liked what he heard about free cash flow ahead. “2024 FCF is expected to be healthy, with a mix of puts and takes,” Creutz wrote. “Negatives from return to full film/TV production and the Olympics, positives from lower cash restructuring costs, interest expense, and capital expenditures.”

Wolfe Research analyst Peter Supino , who has an “outperform” rating and $35 stock price target on WBD, shared a pre-earnings call first take on Friday, focusing on the company’s overall profitability challenges.

“Warner Bros. profitability was weaker than consensus, but free cash flow (FCF) was robust,” he wrote about the fourth-quarter results. “Studio results drove about two-thirds of the miss, impacted by talent strikes, with the other 9 percent accounted for by networks and 24 percent at DTC.” He concluded: “FCF was robust at $3.3 billion (versus $2.5 billion consensus, which should bring assurance that the de-levering story/strong conversion remains intact, though legacy business headwinds appear to be having a more materially negative impact on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) trends.” 

About WBD’s ad trends, he noted that ad revenue was down sharply for the quarter and full year as it ended 2023 with $8.7 billion in ad revenue. “Despite the decline, this still ranks the company among the top 10 sellers of advertising globally outside of China,” Wieser emphasized. “Much of the story is the same as it has been both for WBD and for owners of TV properties in general.”

He also shared his take on management commentary about ad trends in the current first quarter, offering: “I interpret these comments as conveying that we should expect another quarter of single-digit declines for the total advertising business.”

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  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
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  • Design Team:  Thijs Klinkhamer, Abel de Raadt, Alessia Topolnyk
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Text description provided by the architects. The official grand opening of a special school, Letovo School , took place in Moscow last September. The assignment entailed a 20 hectare schoolcampus with educational facilities, student housing and school staff housing. The school campus offers extended outdoor sports facilities with a soccer stade, a running track, tennis courts and basketball courts. In addition there is a greenhouse, a treeyard and ample space for wandering and relaxation in the green.

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While the architecture and interior of the school were designed by atelier PRO, the landscape design was developed by Buro Sant en Co landscape architecture. Russian firm Atrium Architectural Studio was responsible for the technical execution. In 2014 Atelier PRO had won the international design competition, the construction began mid-2016 and the campus was taken into use by mid-2018.

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Letovo, a dream come true Letovo School is a special school for gifted and motivated children aged 12 to 17. The idea to create the school came from entrepreneur and philanthropist Vadim Moshkovich: ‘My dream was to offer talented children from all over the country access to high-quality education, regardless of their parents’ financial means. This school makes it possible for them to continue their studies at the 10 best universities in the country or at one of the top 50 universities in the world.’

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Landscape-inspired design and shape Located in Novaya Moskva,southwest of Moscow ,the campus sits atop a beautiful plot of land that slopes down to a forest-lined river. Distinctive level variations were applied in and around the school to integrate the architecture into the landscape.

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The shape of the large complex brings it down to a human scale for the children: the building appears to dance across the landscape due to its dynamic design. Due to the perspective effect one only ever sees part of the building's full size when walking around, which gives the impression of a refined scale. The building’s contours and flowing curves create surprising indoor and outdoor spaces as well.

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The heart of the school: the central hub The central hub is the place where day-to-day life at the school unfolds. This flexible, transformable space will be used throughout the day as an informal meeting place. The dance studio on the ground floor can be transformed through a few simple adjustments into a theatre with a stage, a cosy living room or an auditorium that can accommodate 1,000 people for special events such as graduation ceremonies and large celebrations, as seen at the grand opening. This central hub connects the building’s three wings: the art wing, the south wing with science- and general-use rooms and the sports wing

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Learning environment with a diversity in working spaces Letovo envisioned an innovative and modern take on existing education in Russia. In the spatial design, this perspective translates into space for theoretical education as well as special areas for group work and independent study in the tapered building wings. In the library wing there are silence spaces workshop spaces and a debating room. These are all supportive to the student’s personal development. 

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Sports programme In addition to the extended sports outdoor facilities, the indoor supply of sports facilities is substantial. These cover fitness rooms, martial arts rooms, a swimming pool, a small and a large sports hall. Around the sports hall there’s an indoor running track which can be used throughout the year. It is available to school staff and external users as well.

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The interior, also designed by atelier PRO, is tailored to the aims of the ambitious programme. The design of the interior also focuses extensively on the various spaces where students can go to chill and meet up with friends. The extreme cold in this area makes the school’s indoor atmosphere important for relaxation.

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Ambitous learning environment The Russian client has established a private, non-profit school which aims to be the most prestigious school in the country and to offer the best educational programme through a Russion and an IB (International Baccalaureate) curriculum. Students’ personal development is paramount, with the school adopting a holistic approach. It is a true learning environment that provides scope for a range of disciplines, areas of interest and recreational opportunities to foster children’s development. This aim is supported by the campus facilities and functions.

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146,000 cameras monitor Moscow streets. And the government is just getting started.

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If you're walking a dog in Moscow, make sure you clean up after it.

Moscow's government is upgrading its network of 146,000 cameras to better monitor city streets and make sure residents, businesses and visitors are staying in line.

Moscow's government has steadily built out the massive network of cameras over the past five years. They're posted along streets, giving the government a 24-7 view of street activity. They are mounted on everything from street lights to buildings and construction sites.

As governments around the world plant more eyes on the streets, people may have no choice but to be upstanding citizens. Crime might drop. But questions about privacy and civil liberties will also be raised. How much surveillance will people put up with? And what happens if camera data falls into the wrong hands?

In Moscow, the technology is a double-edged sword, according to Mark Galeotti, a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague.

"It's this funny combination of big brother in both the negative and the positive sense of the word," Galeotti told CNN Tech. "It's an authoritarian regime that wants to have all the capabilities for a security state. At the same time, [the Moscow government] is genuinely committed to providing public services, and is committed to a wired up city and pushing the various ways that new technology can actually make it better."

Galeotti said he's been struck on his visits to Moscow by the number of city services that can be accessed on a smartphone.

Currently, the cameras are used to check if the trash is picked up, crack down on speeding and red-light running, make sure on-street advertising is legal and track snow removal. Roughly 75,000 violations are caught per day, according to Andrey Belozerov, senior adviser to the Moscow city government's chief information officer. Violators generally receive a fine.

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But the local government isn't content with its success. It sees far more potential in the cameras, which have cost $250 million, according to Belozerov. It's working to make its system more intelligent so that video footage can be analyzed more deeply. Computer programs could analyze footage, automatically doling out tickets.

"For the future, we would like to have more algorithms, starting from whether a seat belt is fastened or not, or is a person talking [on] a mobile phone," Belozerov told CNN Tech.

Related: This company offers U.S. cops free body cameras

Moscow's experimentation is possible due to recent breakthroughs in computer vision. Engineers in the field are highly sought after.

"If you see a computer vision person walking down the street, you grab them by the neck," said Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's school of computer science. "So many products depend on having great computer vision engineers."

The dream of computer vision researchers is to one day empower machines to see as well as humans. It's unclear when this may happen, but the implications of computers' new abilities will be vast.

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And that's why dog walkers in Moscow should get used to cleaning up after their animals. In a matter of years, governments will be able to monitor and enforce good behavior like never before. Belozerov can foresee using cameras to automatically identify when a person doesn't clean up after their pet. Leave your dog's waste behind, and you risk getting a ticket in the mail.

In theory, a government could do this already. But it would require humans manually monitoring thousands of video feeds. That would be too expensive. But by automating the task with computer vision algorithms, it would become an affordable option for identifying bad behavior.

Related: New Nest camera zooms in and recognizes faces

Earlier this year, Belozerov did a pilot test of facial recognition technology outside Moscow subway stops. Some cameras were able to recognize faces with 95% accuracy. Belozerov envisions making the technology available to the police department to aid in looking for criminals.

For now, the technology is still a work in progress. Some cameras in the pilot proved ineffective, due to the lighting or the vantage point.

As the cameras have proliferated, the city has had to address privacy concerns.

"The technology is relatively neutral. The real question is what is the political, economic and social context in which that technology is deployed," said John Verdi, VP of policy at the Future of Policy Forum.

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There are more than 15,000 people in Moscow's local government who can access the video footage, some with restricted access, according to Belozerov. For example, school officials can only access video from the cameras outside schools. The police department gets first dibs if it wants to point a camera in a given direction, or zoom in on something. All of Russia's federal agencies can receive camera footage upon written request.

Video recordings from the cameras are stored for five days.

"If we had more money," Belozerov said. "We'd probably buy more storage."

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Nigel Lythgoe has been hit with another sexual assault lawsuit just as he filed his official response denying Paula Abdul’s bombshell allegations made in her December case.

The latest lawsuit — filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the same attorneys representing the “Opposites Attract” singer and another Lythgoe accuser in a pending lawsuit — alleges that the embattled “So You Think You Can Dance” and “American Idol” producer sexually assaulted a longtime professional colleague at his home in Bel-Air during a business meeting in 2018.

LEFT: Paula Abdul arrives at the 57th Annual CMA Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. (Evan Agostini/Invision/Associated Press) RIGHT: Nigel Lythgoe arrives at the 2018 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/Associated Press

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Paula Abdul sues ‘American Idol,’ ‘SYTYCD’ producer Nigel Lythgoe over alleged sexual assault

Paula Abdul alleges that ‘American Idol’ and ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ producer Nigel Lythgoe sexually assaulted her in a lawsuit filed on the eve of California’s legal deadline

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The redacted complaint , posted on the website of the law firm Johnson & Johnson LLP, accuses the 74-year-old producer of sexual assault and battery, gender violence, sexual harassment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The accuser, identified anonymously as Jane Doe, alleges that Lythgoe “forced Jane Doe against an exterior wall of the property and then [started] licking her neck, touching her genitalia, and [groping] her all over.”

“Jane Doe did not consent to this attack and left Mr. Lythgoe’s residence in such a state of shock that she could not drive herself home for nearly thirty minutes,” the law firm said.

The plaintiff, who brings Lythgoe’s total number of accusers to five thus far, is seeking several unspecified damages in the case and joins a growing list of women alleging misconduct by Lythgoe.

Representatives for Lythgoe did not comment on the 2018 allegations when reached Wednesday by The Times. However, they have previously denied Abdul’s claims , and those made by three other women who brought suits against Lythgoe . ( Two former contestants from a short-lived series came forward in January and another woman brought allegations from 2016 in February.)

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Meanwhile, Lythgoe’s attorney, Marina Z. Beck, on Tuesday filed the producer’s official response to Abdul’s lawsuit, which accused him of sexually assaulting Abdul twice during her time on his shows. The Grammy-winning former “Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” judge also alleged that she suffered bullying and harassment and gender pay discrimination while serving as a prominent public face of the hit reality programs.

“Sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and gender violence are despicable, intolerable, and life-changing. Those legally responsible for such abuse should be held accountable,” according to Lythgoe’s response, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained Wednesday by The Times.

“False accusations of sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and gender violence are also despicable, intolerable, and life-changing. Abdul’s accusations against Lythgoe are false, despicable, intolerable, and life-changing. These allegations are the worst form of character assassination on Lythgoe,” his attorneys said.

His attorney called Abdul a “well-documented fabulist,” alleging that her accusations about Lythgoe “are pure fiction” being leveraged “as a ploy for long-ago lost relevance and fame and/or for unjustified profit ahead of her announced ‘Magic Summer’ 2024 tour.”

“With fabricated allegations dating back over 20 years, while standing on the shoulders of those the system was created to protect, Abdul has abused the legal process for her own personal and selfish gains. This, too, is intolerable. Lythgoe will continue to promote the dissemination of truth — which confirms that Abdul is not a victim of sexual assault at the hand of Lythgoe, but it is Lythgoe who has been a victim of Abdul’s appalling lies,” the response said.

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TV producer Nigel Lythgoe is facing sexual assault allegations by two women who filed suit against him Tuesday, days after Paula Abdul filed a separate lawsuit.

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In January, Fox dropped Lythgoe from “So You Think You Can Dance” ahead of the dance competition’s 18th season and replaced him with “Dance Moms” alum Jojo Siwa.

Beck described Lythgoe and Abdul as longtime friends who spent time with each other’s families and frequented events together while collaborating on projects. Citing Abdul’s “positive feelings” toward Lythgoe, the attorneys included copies of “adoring messages and comments” made in text messages and social media posts that “underscore the frivolousness and falsity of her suit.”

“It is unthinkable that Abdul would even tolerate Lythgoe’s physical proximity let alone send him adoring messages and sexually provocative jokes if her allegations were true — which, clearly, they are not,” the response said.

Additionally, the attorney argued that the accusations made in Abdul’s complaint “lack specificity as to when, where and how any alleged abuse occurred and as to who received notice to it” and that they “stretch credulity.” Beck argues that Lythgoe championed and fought for Abdul to be included in “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” despite “the industry’s hesitation to work with Abdul, in part due to the reputation she developed because of her drug-fueled erratic behavior.”

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Beck argues that Abdul fails to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against Lythgoe, that her causes of action are barred by the statute of limitations and cannot be revived and that her claims are barred under the equitably Doctrine of Laches (meaning that she cannot raise her claim due to an unreasonable delay in pursuing it), among several other legal defenses.

Lythgoe is asking that Abdul “takes nothing” by way of her complaint, that it be dismissed in its entirety with prejudice and that Lythgoe recovers his legal fees, as well as further relief the court “deems just and proper.”

A spokesperson for Abdul did not immediately respond Wednesday to The Times’ request for comment.

As previously reported, Abdul’s lawsuit was filed under California’s Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, which allows survivors of sexual assault to sue beyond the usual statute of limitations.

Johnson & Johnson LLP, the law firm representing Abdul and the women who alleged abuse in 2016 and 2018, said Wednesday that Lythgoe’s response to Abdul’s complaint “is classic victim shaming.”

“Mr. Lythgoe fails to appreciate that he held a position of power over Ms. Abdul,” the filing attorney Melissa Eubanks said in a statement to The Times. “He was a producer on ‘American Idol’ and ‘SYTYCD’ and she was the talent. He held the cards to her career in his hand and he knew it. It thus is no surprise that Ms. Abdul placated to his ego with positive messaging and seeming adoration. These are the defenses that many women like Ms. Abdul had to adopt to deal with men who abuse their power.”

Eubanks accused Lythgoe’s filing of cherry-picking from years of messages with Abdul to try to discredit her claims.

“[W]hat his selections fail to show are the numerous instances of overt sexual harassment he forced Ms. Abdul to tolerate,” the statement said, citing three alleged exchanges from 2014 that were sexual and that Eubanks described as “verbal assaults” to Abdul.

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The Academy Awards ceremony, which this year will take place on March 10, traditionally provides a reliable moment of optimism for a perennially anxious industry. The Oscars are the climax of an awards season that’s a prolonged exercise in collective congratulation, and in early March the rest of the year still looks bright. The Sundance Film Festival and its attendant bidding wars have wrapped up, offering nothing but promise and excitement. At the box office, the biggest bets of the year have typically not yet opened and thus have not yet bombed. Every unreleased movie on the schedule might yet be a great one. Every year feels as if it just might be the biggest year ever.

But not this year.

For Hollywood, 2023 was not so much a disaster as a preview of disasters to come. Sure, one of the big stories last year was the Barbenheimer phenomenon — two celebrated hits that marched arm in arm toward a combined 21 Oscar nominations — but everywhere else you look, the prognosis is grim.

The industry, still staggering back from the pandemic shutdowns, was hit with twin strikes that brought production to a halt for six months. Writers, actors and virtually the rest of Hollywood’s work force were united in animus against the studio bosses, who, in their refusal to cut necessary deals, blithely cast themselves in the role of supervillain. That fury persists: Each new headline about the huge compensation package for Robert Iger, Disney’s chief executive, or decisions by David Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, to shelve entire projects for tax write-offs undergirds a prevailing narrative that the people who finance the movies are becoming the enemies of the people who make them.

All of this is happening as the industry seems to be realizing in unison that streaming services — those wondrous platforms that were going to carry the town into the future like magic carpets — maybe aren’t a panacea after all. And hanging over all this anger and anxiety is the menace of artificial intelligence, which threatens every human part of the creative food chain, from the writers who pen scripts to the actors whose faces fill the screens to, theoretically, the studio executives whose jobs are piloting hits.

The year 2023 was a time of downsizing, diminishment, shelving, sidelining, retrenching, retreating and bet-hedging. And 2024 is the year of consequences. The plain fact is that, thanks to the strikes, there simply aren’t enough movies and new shows in the pipeline to give the business the boom year it badly needs. (This weekend’s big opening, “Dune: Part Two,” was delayed from its original 2023 premiere date because of the strikes’ disruption.) For Hollywood, it will take at least a full year for the supply lines to start flowing at capacity again — and there are fewer supply lines than there used to be. Only five of the legacy movie companies still operate as traditional studios, and one of those, Paramount, is up for sale.

As for new projects, the industry’s current whispered motto seems to be: Just survive till ’25. Writers and producers pitching projects are being warned to keep expectations at basement level: Nobody’s buying, everybody’s cutting costs, caution rules, and the boom times are over. To quote Tony Soprano — the main character in a hit show back when a golden age seemed to be dawning, not dimming — things are trending downward. He had no idea how prescient he was.

If “Hollywood” were a big summer movie, we’d be right at the end of Act II, at the always-darkest-before-the-dawn moment in the story, when all seems lost. Or, as one agent put it to me, “A lot of us are feeling like we’re working in the aftermath of an industry, not in an industry.” But as any fan of Hollywood screenplays knows, this is also when the beaten-down heroes look at the redrawn battlefield, assess the new, heightened stakes, regroup and eventually triumph. The movie business, since at least the 1940s, has always defined itself by perceived threats to its survival — charges of Communist influence, the advent of television and the rise of the VCR, cable or streaming — and it has always found a way to rebound.

In the mid-1960s, when studio culture was besieged and foundering and nobody who ran Hollywood could understand why the old ways were no longer working, “it wasn’t just that we were sick of the system,” the director Arthur Penn once told me. “The system was sick of itself.” But that malaise, dejection and uncertainty led to a major upheaval — and a decade of churning creative excitement. The New Hollywood movement of the late 1960s and 1970s happened because a bunch of great young filmmakers made a bunch of great new movies (“Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Graduate” and “Easy Rider” and “The Godfather” and “Jaws”) that turned out to be huge hits. But it’s worth noting that the people in charge at the time considered most of those movies exceptions, oddities and anomalies. The industry didn’t realize that the world beneath its feet was changing.

That’s where the movie business is right now: The system, it seems, is once again sick of itself. The industry has, for the past four years, been wondering when it can get back to normal, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that there may be no such thing. There is only forward to something new. The industry is about to find out what that might look like.

In the ashes of last year, an outline of this new normal started to emerge. It’s a landscape that consists not of just big studios (this isn’t the 1950s) or big studios competing with upstart indies that steal their awards (this isn’t the 1990s) but of a mix of new and old models: studios; indies; streamers like Apple, Amazon and Netflix; and the kind of out-of-nowhere hits, faith-based movies and red-state phenomena like “Sound of Freedom” that keep taking people on the coasts by surprise.

It’s also a landscape that, like so many these days, involves Taylor Swift. In 2023 “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” bypassed traditional distributors, went straight to theaters and outgrossed all but 10 of last year’s biggest movies domestically. If theaters are going to survive, this kind of communal event — the “you have to be there with 20 friends” movie/dance party — is probably going to be integral to their future. One acknowledgment of the Swift effect came when the streaming rights to “The Eras Tour” went to Disney for reportedly more than $75 million. Hollywood finally stepped up with a tried-and-true old-school principle: If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em (even if it’s a very expensive meal).

If the defining piece of good news for the studios in 2023 was Barbenheimer, the industry seems unwilling to learn from its success. Barbenheimer suggested that audiences might get excited when two huge, very different films open on the same day — but studios, which used to compete head-to-head almost every weekend, now try desperately to avoid those scheduling clashes. Astonishingly, several weekends in 2024, as of now, have not even one big new movie , let alone two, set to open. That’s a mistake. Studios need to chase this kind of collision, and Barbenheimer was a useful reminder that old-world studios (Universal released “Oppenheimer,” and Warner Bros. released “Barbie”) are among the few entities with the sheer marketing muscle to stoke a bona fide worldwide event.

The year 2023 provided two blockbusters that are going head-to-head for best picture, a Hollywood studio dream come true. But that can’t erase the fact that superhero movies, the industry’s cash cow for the past dozen years, showed ominous signs of collapse. All four of Warner’s DC movies underperformed, including “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “The Flash” and “Blue Beetle.” Disney’s “The Marvels” — a sequel to “Captain Marvel,” which grossed $427 million — earned a woeful $85 million. It seems unkind even to mention Sony’s disastrous attempt at building out a “Spider-Man” extended universe with “Madame Web.”

Superhero movies aren’t finished — Disney and Warner Bros. have locked in multiyear, multimovie plans, and “Deadpool & Wolverine” is likely to be a hit this summer — but what had been a bulletproof business plan is in tatters. The days when audiences would faithfully trot out for every interconnected chapter of a cinematic-universe saga are over. That’s no longer entertainment. That’s homework.

If there’s a silver lining, perhaps it can be found in an earlier superhero film, one that premiered amid great doubts about the industry 35 years ago. In the summer of 1989, prestige Hollywood moviemaking was in a rut, and anxious executives fretted that maybe young people just wanted to stay home and watch MTV, much in the way they now worry that youth are addicted to bite-size TikToks. But in 1989, the success of the director Tim Burton’s “Batman” and the unexpected breakout hits “The Little Mermaid,” “Sex, Lies and Videotape” and “Do the Right Thing” opened up new vistas of possibility. Three genres that had been written off as marginal — comic book movies, animation and indies — became gold mines. Hollywood may not yet know what’s going to replace superhero films as the next reliable blockbuster category, but this current crisis at least provides an incentive to start chasing a reset.

A reset, however, requires creative energy and imagination, and that’s a part of the movie industry that legacy studios have spent much of the modern era trying to eliminate. Studios have moved into an age of brand stewardship and out of the business of generating ideas and developing scripts. They’ve redefined their business as curation rather than discovery. That has to change, too. This isn’t a high-minded plea for the industry to become something it’s never been; instead, it’s a pitch for the studios (and now streamers) to reconnect with the enterprising, flexible, relatively quick-to-pivot business model under which they operated successfully for a vast majority of their existence.

Hollywood has a long history of toggling between spurts of irrational exuberance and deep valleys of clinical depression. Before the perils of streaming and A.I., the existential threat in the aughts came from peak TV, that siren luring away A-list talent and audience eyeballs. But not everything that looks like an industry killer turns out to be one. The e-book did not end books or bookstores. And streaming, a business that, for all its flaws, gives more people more access to more films, will not kill movies or moviegoing. It’s possible that the bungled decisions that led to two prolonged strikes — the most vigorous recent attempt by studio heads to shoot themselves in the foot — created one unanticipated benefit, a green shoot of improbable hope: a serious delay in the completion of giant franchise movies. Given their recent disappointing box office numbers, a few of those decades-old franchises, like “The Fast and the Furious” and “Mission: Impossible,” may have finally reached retirement age.

In light of this blockbuster shortage — and out of sheer panicked supply chain necessity — Hollywood is looking at and buying and even making plans to produce a bunch of scripts that can get off the ground fast and be cast, shot and edited reasonably quickly. They’re the kinds of films that don’t require a $250 million budget and a year of complicated postproduction work. They’re films like “ Hamnet ,” directed by the Oscar winner Chloé Zhao (whose last film was an underperforming Marvel movie, “Eternals”), and “Novocaine,” a thriller acquired by Paramount starring Jack Quaid. Even Tom Cruise, who hasn’t starred in a nonfranchise movie since 2017, is teaming with the Oscar-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu. These are self-contained films that don’t demand moviegoers have a Ph.D. in previous installments or extended universes.

They’re the kinds of films you might sometimes wish Hollywood made more of. Maybe you remember them. They’re what used to be called movies.

Mark Harris is a cultural historian and the author of “Pictures at a Revolution” and, most recently, “Mike Nichols: A Life.” He is working on a history of pop culture’s intersection with the gay rights movement.

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