[JamieD]

Is the studio for DOND in Media City a much bigger space than the one provided in Bristol?

Presumably depending on if they book a bigger studio. There is no reason reason for them to record it in Bristol though, the reason it was recorded there originally is because Endemol  owned the studio there, which was later sold to what I think was then known BBC Studios and Post Production. A couple of years before the end of its run it moved to The Bottle Yard which was a little more out of the city, which tends to be used more for fiction and of course was used for the revival of The Crystal Maze. AFAIK Tipping Point also still comes from the Bottle Yard after moving there some years ago.

I think Bristol was also the most convenient place for Edmonds.

Yes, the original studio was at the Paintworks, which was near the Temple Meads railway station. Always found it odd how BBC Studios & PP owned the studio there (was it even used for anything else?)! I agree that I seem to remember it was Bristol being a location convenient for Edmonds was why it was in Bristol in the first place.

When it moved to The Bottle Yard I took part in a technical rehearsal day and participated in two run-throughs of fake game with a contestant in the chair (one of the producer's daughters, I think). It wasn't at all a big studio space and with an inconveniently sited structural pillar, masked out well by the camera angles. I'm sure even the smallest of purpose-built TV studios will be and look larger!