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Has anyone been an audience member at a BBC show?

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VeterinaryCareAssistant · 05/12/2024 19:46

Just that really.

I have applied for tickets for a show and I realise it's a random draw, but just wondered how soon BBC contact you if it's successful.

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KimberleyClark · 06/12/2024 10:00

I went to a recording of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue at my local concert hall. It was great fun. We were all given kazoos, I still have mine. When the recording finished Jack Dee made a thing of tidying up, dropping scripts in a bin and hoovering the stage. Also been to a recording of Dead Ringers ( when it was a radio show).

DrZaraCarmichael · 06/12/2024 09:11

Anyone can apply for tix here for a BBC show

Tiredalwaystired · 06/12/2024 08:00

LuckysDadsHat · 06/12/2024 07:08

Strictly has changed now and if you get a ticket through the ballot you are guaranteed entry. It changed last year (I think not 100%).

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Quite possibly. I went in 2022.

Oriunda · 06/12/2024 07:22

Top of the Pops in 1983. Bauhaus performed ‘She’s in parties’. Was great.

Once attended a recording of a Jack Dee show. Was ok, but interminable because they had to take multiple takes of various jokes.

Bjorkdidit · 06/12/2024 07:16

I think they overbook to guarantee a full house so they get a good atmosphere and for TV, so there's not visible empty seats.

It will be like most things that are free, people will apply for shows and not decide until later whether they're actually going to go.

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VeterinaryCareAssistant · 06/12/2024 07:09

Thanks for the replies.

it's interesting about having to arrive early. I presumed a ticket meant a guaranteed seat. I had roughly planned to visit some certain specialist shops in the area and then rock up to the show in the evening.

I would have loved The Really Wild Show.

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LuckysDadsHat · 06/12/2024 07:08

Tiredalwaystired · 05/12/2024 20:28

Yes. We got strictly tickets. Got told about five days before I think. You still have to turn up on the day at stupid o clock and only the first however many in the queue get in as they over allocate to avoid gaps. You then have to come back again about four with a ticket they gave you that morning to get in.

it was worth it though (and I’m lucky as I only live about twenty mins from where they film so it wasn’t a big risk (the people in the queue behind us came from Newcastle).

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Strictly has changed now and if you get a ticket through the ballot you are guaranteed entry. It changed last year (I think not 100%).

ChessieFL · 06/12/2024 06:39

I was in the audience of The Really Wild Show in 1989. Not sure that’s the kind of experience you’re looking for though…

mitogoshigg · 06/12/2024 06:20

A few mostly radio, depends on the show but typically a couple of weeks out

timetoreset · 06/12/2024 06:18

Saw Alexei Sayle in a live show recording- brilliant!

BlackChunkyBoots · 06/12/2024 05:51

I used to go in the late 90s when I was skint student. A few failed sitcoms, nothing of note.

cariadlet · 06/12/2024 05:40

Like a pp, I applied for question time. That's slightly different to other shows because you have to put things like how you voted in the last election on the application form. You also get a phone call from a member of the production team before they decide whether to give you a ticket.

Alphaalga · 06/12/2024 05:34

crockofshite · 06/12/2024 04:47

The one show has an audience???

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Only in the studio...

crockofshite · 06/12/2024 04:47

ExtraOnions · 05/12/2024 20:49

QI, Celebrity Mastermind, Strictly, some Dick & Dom kids show, The One Show .. also a few ITV ones

The one show has an audience???

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 06/12/2024 04:39

A recording of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue in Harrogate, back in 2007!

HappydaysArehere · 06/12/2024 04:18

Went to see The Army Game many years ago. Saw Michael Medwin and co coming out after an rehearsal.Also saw Des O’Connor in some kind of comedy show in 1960. He was young of course and I thought at the time he was very ham.

RavenA · 06/12/2024 04:00

My partner was part of the studio audience for an episode of George & Mildred when she was a teenager.

ExtraOnions · 05/12/2024 20:49

QI, Celebrity Mastermind, Strictly, some Dick & Dom kids show, The One Show .. also a few ITV ones

Auburngal · 05/12/2024 20:45

Friend went to a recording for QI. It was their Christmas special. Was early June and everyone carried a Xmas jumper with them to the studio as it was too hot to wear it.

Bjorkdidit · 05/12/2024 20:37

I went to a recording of the radio 4 panel show The Kitchen Cabinet.

I've just checked my emails and I was told I'd got a ticket after about 3 weeks.

It was another 7 weeks before the recording, when I got there nearly an hour before recording the theatre was just about full, but I don't know if anyone was turned away or everyone just followed the advice to be early to be sure to get in.

Photodilemmas · 05/12/2024 20:31

HornyHornersPinkyWinky · 05/12/2024 20:30

I think the poster means Jimmy Savile...

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Oh haha I get it now. Not sure why it's censored,, he's long dead and it was proven he was an awful beast.

HornyHornersPinkyWinky · 05/12/2024 20:30

Photodilemmas · 05/12/2024 20:30

Eh?! What show was this?

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I think the poster means Jimmy Savile...

Photodilemmas · 05/12/2024 20:30

iwishihadaname · 05/12/2024 19:55

Yes it was a kids tv show presenter was then thought highly of because he fixed things. Enjoyed it at the time but now wonder about the girls that were on the show

Eh?! What show was this?

Tiredalwaystired · 05/12/2024 20:28

Yes. We got strictly tickets. Got told about five days before I think. You still have to turn up on the day at stupid o clock and only the first however many in the queue get in as they over allocate to avoid gaps. You then have to come back again about four with a ticket they gave you that morning to get in.

it was worth it though (and I’m lucky as I only live about twenty mins from where they film so it wasn’t a big risk (the people in the queue behind us came from Newcastle).

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