Manchester has traditionally been the main filming location for the British TV show Dragon's Den.
The programme was filmed at the former Granada Studios in Manchester for many years. The city has a major television-production history, and the studio complex became strongly associated with the show's familiar den set.
The set is designed to look like a dramatic boardroom, but the entrepreneurs do not simply walk into an ordinary office. The pitch, questioning and negotiation are recorded as a television production, with editing shaping the final broadcast episode.
Viewers sometimes assume that a BBC business programme must be filmed in London, particularly because many investors operate nationally. The programme's Manchester production base is therefore an important behind-the-scenes detail. The location has changed over the show's history, but Manchester is the established city most closely linked with its filming.