I haven’t bothered checking them out for ages, but it turns out there’s interesting news out there. In no particular order:
- From SRO, The Masked Singer is recording its second series from 14th September at Bovingdon Airfield, it’s looking for an audience.
- Also from SRO, they were looking for pairs of people for a runthrough of a show called Beat the Interrogators, which sounds like Tell the Truth. That was a few days ago.
- Family Fortunes with Gino d’Acampo is recording at Television Centre 2nd-4th September. Tickets are available at Applause Store.
Perhaps I’m reading too much into it but ITV seemed strangely non-committal about bringing back Masked Singer, despite it seemingly doing well for them, rather than treating it as their hot new show. I know it’s supposed to be expensive.
Another beneficiary of Coronavirus content shortages?
Don’t think they are being too non committal about it, from memory series 2 was commissioned when the first was still on air. Think Kevin Lygo is on record as saying he’d rather it would be back sooner rather than later around April time too.
Fair enough – perhaps I just didn’t hear about it, then! I was actively looking into it after the previous run and couldn’t find any which struck me as odd.
QI are going to try a ‘remote audience’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/qi-remote-21aug20
It’s been used for a few Radio 4 comedy shows – but I don’t think TV has yet. Don’t know if you’ll be on camera reacting, feels unlikely, but they record the mics.
My attempt to attend the Family Fortunes recording today ended with failure, as all the seats were gone 30 minutes before the entry time. Due to social distancing, they’re only letting in 18 groups (1 to 4 people per group) and there are two empty rows between groups. Masks worn at all times. Filming is in six hour blocks to record two shows. And they have five filming days.
So no real gossip to share, but get there early if you have tickets for the remaining filming dates (I can’t make the others, but thankfully I don’t live too far away).
That’s a shame, thanks for trying Tom.