 The last show to be broadcast live (and recorded) at the studios was "The X Factor" on 4 December 2016, after which the studio closed and the site sold to property developer Quintain.In 1927, Ralph J. Pugh and Rupert Mason founded British Incorporated Pictures with the intention of creating an American-style studio complex in the former British Empire Exhibition's Palace of Engineering.They bought a lease at Wembley in June 1927, though it was for the Lucullus Garden Club Restaurant site, not the Palace of Engineering.