Everything’s winding down for the year and we’re all off to endless amounts of Christmas parties because we’re so popular and that, as such our policy of “try and do a post within three days of the last one” will probably go to pot a bit over the next month as the well runs a bit dry (although don’t forget we have the last ever Schlag den Raab to look forward to on the 19th December and the Poll of 2015 opening in the new year – start thinking about your votes!).
Still, here are some things you can get tickets to in the near future if you’re that way inclined:
- Get in quick, The Big Quiz: Coronation Street vs Emmerdale returns with Stephen Mulhern filming in Manchester tomorrow night. Details Lost in TV.
- New panel game Insert Name Here with Sue Perkins, Richard Osman and Josh Widdicombe films 21st and 22nd December and mid-January at Pinewood because they hate you. Details at SRO.
- The Big Fat Quiz of the Year with Jimmy Carr plus big name celebrity guests (probably Jonathan Ross) films at ITV Towers the 14th December. Details SRO.
- Big Star’s Little Star for Text Santa films on the morning of Friday the 18th (for putting together for that evening, presumably) at ITV Towers. Details Applause Store.
- Good news! Ratings behemoth Play to the Whistle returns for a second run, episodes tape variously in January at the Fountain in Wembley. Details Applause Store.
- Not a gameshow but possibly of interest, The TV That Made Me with Brian Conley is returning for a second run and films 18th to 25th of January in Middlesex. Details on SRO.
- International hypnotism sensation You’re Back In The Room films its second series in mid-late January. A fun recording, but a surprisingly lengthy one, details at Lost in TV.
- Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway is filming soon, details Applause Store. The big news is that the episode on April 2nd is going to come live from a P & O ferry, end of series competition winners presumably.
Did The TV That Made Me have an audience in the first series?
Doesn’t seem like the sort of show that really needs one unless they’re moving to a more studio chat show setting
No it didn’t, and I thought that was part of its charm. Don’t think it’ll work with an awful laughter track.
Does SRO usually send a confirmation email after you apply or only if you actually get tickets?
Only if successful these days, IIRC.
Okay, thanks~
Would be very excited to see Takeaway coming live from a ferry because it reminds me a bit of the brilliant episode of Going Live from 1990 that came live from a cross-channel ferry, which at the time I thought was the most incredible thing I’d ever seen on television. Live television from a moving ship! Incredible!
Sounds a bit like The Late Late Breakfast Show, actually, they used to be big on pointless spectacle.