Eldorado (TV series) Eldorado (TV series) Eldorado was a British soap opera created by Tony Holland from an original idea by John Dark and Verity Lambert that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa Eldorado in Spain and following the lives of British and European expatriates, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as "EastEnders" and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported Australian soaps such as "Home and Away" and "Neighbours". A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity
BBC Drama Village BBC Drama Village The BBC Drama Village is a television production facility run by the BBC. It is operated by their BBC Birmingham branch and based largely at the Selly Oak campus of the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England. The centre consists of five buildings - "Archibald House" and "Melville House", two Grade II listed arts and crafts-style former college buildings on the university campus, and three units on an industrial estate in nearby Stirchley. Facilities include studios and sets, wardrobe and technical departments and extensive post-production suites. The programmes made on the site are "Doctors" and "The Afternoon