Anyone ever been in the audience of a tv show?

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As above really. There's loads of shows which have a live audience - has anyone ever been to one?

Deal or no deal a few years ago - all the audience reactions are filmed before so we were told to look shocked or surprised or to cheer. My shocked reaction got used for that episode and then on a few others I wasn't present for

8 out of 10 cats does countdown a few times - although one time they had to stop filming because a woman on the front row passed out. I am that woman.

Insert name here. Both really good fun would definitely do again!!

Wheel of fortune with Joe Pasquale!

XFactor auditions: it took 2 hours for them to arrange the audience so that the people they wanted were in prime spots for filming the audience. Clearly me and DH didn’t make the cut as they wouldn’t let us move along the row into no show seats but they left a seat free in front of DS (10) and he did get on TV so he’s clearly more photogenic than us 😂. Weirdly, the act that he was featured cheering for wasn’t one that we actually saw! So we weren’t looking for ourselves at that point and nearly missed him when we watched it.

We’ve been to the XFactor final twice though and that was awesome and a totally different experience.

My choir was in the audience of the QI Christmas special in 2017. We had to all stand up and sing ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ at the end as part of some joke. It was recorded in May, which made the whole thing a bit surreal.

@Crinkle77 yes she was relatively quiet and well behaved in between takes, bless her!

Wogan.
Think that was about 1992! I went with my mums work, a coach load of us went to London for it.

Bryan Adams was on it I seem to recall. I can't remember anything else!

I did also go to a radio recording a couple of years ago with my kids. Dick and Dom were presenting it. It was good fun, and we did have to do a few takes of some bits where they made mistakes, but they were great presenters and the kids loved them. We never actually listened to it when it was broadcast.

There is footage of our moment of fame here (1 min 43 secs from the end)! www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ysdfg

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The Rikki Lake show. It was hilarious and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

My school made up the audience for most Scottish kids shows in the late 80s/early 90s. I appeared on live TV sitting beside a band member from The Railway Children on one show. A few of us were all given questions to ask (none of us had come up with the questions though.) We also all had to film ourselves jumping with different expressions and they used some of them for the opening theme.

About 15 years ago we had quite a run of getting tickets for shows filmed in Manchester and Leeds (Bullseye!!) and always got in. It was fab, a bit of shopping, lunch and a show.

I've been to see Dancing on Ice (last series), was really good fun

Was sitting in a coffee shop a few years ago and saw someone get accosted by Stephen Mulhern for Saturday Night Takeaway or something... does that count?

A few, including Strictly at Blackpool. We were herded in at around 3 and let out again about 11 at night. It was interminable. They recorded all the infill bits, warmed us up, cooled us down, got us to clap, cheer etc. It was ok for about the first 4 hours and then we realised they were going to film the Sunday show as well and I wanted to cry 😭

Most haunted

The Price is Right when Bruce Forsyth was doing it- we weren’t called!!!!!

Quite a few actually, there are some decent free ticket websites for stuff like QI.

I’ve been near or at the front for a few and on one stand up type show, they had an awful comedian who literally no-one laughed at. They edited me laughing at something else in to that comedian’s slot instead. Furious!!!

Oh I forgot I was at Big Brother as well - it was series three, the Jade Goody series, and I just had to look up who was evicted as I couldn't remember - it was PJ (who?). I only know that because I know the previous eviction had been Adele.

I was in the audience for Jeremy Kyle and Jerry Springer (when he filmed some shows over here)

It was that good I cannot remember anything apart from Jeremy's head was huge compared to his body and Jerry had red socks on.

I was also in the audience on a show in LA. Sat right behind Ben Affleck and then Naughty by Nature performed. Now that was a really fantastic experience.

Opportunity Knocks when they revived it in the late 80s. It took hours to film as the acts repeatedly mucked up and had to be re-filmed. Also friend and I were 70 years younger than the rest of the audience so we were made to sit right in the front. The audience had to clap and clap and clap - when there was no act - until they had a sufficiently enthusiastic soundtrack.

@Doubleraspberry I am bloody jealous of that! Would have died to be in the Friends live audience. Tell me more

Yes, but mostly ages ago. Scoop with Richard Stilgoe was an old news quiz. Diane Solomon was a singer with her own show. I got to mooch around the sets of Animal Magic, Take Hart and Words and Pictures, met Johnny Morris, Tony Hart etc.

I’ve been in the studio audience for a few radio 4 shows, Brain of Britain and Counterpoint when a relative was a contestant. All good fun. If I lived closer to any studios I might apply for more tickets.

Who wants to be a Millionaire with Jeremy Clarkson, I felt like I had an obligation to get all of the ask the audience questions correct 😂

I went to see a few episodes of The Late Edition being filmed (had to google what it was called) as a friend was involved.

Also went to see Miranda with a friend which was such fun (of course). It was an episode which has a dream sequence where she kisses Gary but it was filmed sequentially so just looked to the audience like they'd really got together. There were some really diehard fans in the audience and they genuinely screamed. I was quite glad to report back to my mother as she was convinced they had a laugh track but it was all real reactions.