TV (Non-fiction)
- Derren Brown: The Heist, shown at 9.00p.m. on Channel 4 on Wednesday 4 January 2006, featured brief exterior shots of the main Quad and University Street. It was implied one experiment conducted was filmed inside one UCL building, although which one was not established, it was most likely to be the Cruciform Building which is located opposite the Front Quad.
- BBC News chose to film in and around UCL to provide some of the footage used to cover the news regarding nationwide strike action by university staff when the story finally hit the headlines on Saturday 13 May 2006. Ongoing news coverage of this story has used shots of UCL, for example on Channel 4 News on Tuesday 6 June 2006.
- BBC London News filmed outside the main Quad in 2006 with the reporter reading from one of the Geography Department's standard risk assessment forms for a story regarding difficulties surrounding field trips.
- James May filmed part of an episode of James May's Big Ideas around UCL and inside the CAVE in Malet Place Engineering Building in February 2008, involving the famous Karthik Parthiban in a virtual reality experiment.
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