Orbital Studios Moves Into Television City in Los Angeles
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- Orbital Studios is relocating to Television City in Los Angeles' Fairfax District, gaining a brick-and-mortar home for its virtual production operation after years of expansion through partnerships with other soundstages.
- Founded in 2020, Orbital provides art teams, tools, software, and pipelines for virtual production aimed at making the process faster, leaner, and easier to budget while pushing final-pixel quality.
- Orbital's credits include Netflix's Nemesis, FX's upcoming The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, FX's Justified: City Primeval, History Channel's History's Greatest Heists, and a 20-part Tom Hanks docuseries World War II.
- The move comes as high-end productions relocate to other states and countries; the partnership aims to let shoots capture global locations without leaving Los Angeles, preserving crew jobs and production spending locally.
- Television City was designated a Historic-Cultural Monument in 2018 and has hosted All in the Family, The Carol Burnett Show, The Price Is Right, The Young and the Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful across its nearly 75-year history.
- A.J. Wedding, Orbital's founder and CEO, said the company aims to honor the lot's legacy by bringing virtual production technology into the spaces 'that helped define American television.'
Why it matters: The deal gives Orbital a permanent physical home while planting a virtual production operation at a Historic-Cultural Monument lot in the Fairfax District, betting on L.A.-based shoots at a moment when productions are leaving for other states and countries. For Television City, the partnership positions the 75-year-old facility among the most advanced production environments anywhere while keeping crew jobs and production spending in Los Angeles.
