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Jonwo
I'm curious how they get audiences and contestants for a pilot. I've only ever seen calls for contestants for shows that have already been commissioned.
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UBox
Apparently the contestants were former contestants on The Chase and they didn't actually win the prize money. I presume the audience is selected from previous audience members so you don't have to advertise.
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Brekkie
Jonwo posted:
I'm curious how they get audiences and contestants for a pilot. I've only ever seen calls for contestants for shows that have already been commissioned.

Pilots usually just advertise for an audience in the usual manner.
JO
Johnr
Yes, I once went to a game show pilot with Steve Jones at MediaCity just to pass some time as it was the evening before a flight from Manchester Airport for a 2 week holiday in Orlando...

It was that bad I would have rather just been sat in the airport!
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gottago
Jonwo posted:
I'm curious how they get audiences and contestants for a pilot. I've only ever seen calls for contestants for shows that have already been commissioned.

Casting and audience is the done in the same way on pilots as on a commissioned show. Look more often and you will see pilots being advertised on the usual sites.

As an aside not everyone who appears on shows have applied themselves, the casting teams will target specific groups of people that they have less/less good applications from and find a lot of people who never would have thought of appearing on TV in the first place. This happens on pilots and commissioned series.
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JamesLaverty1925
Jonwo posted:
I'm curious how they get audiences and contestants for a pilot. I've only ever seen calls for contestants for shows that have already been commissioned.

Casting and audience is the done in the same way on pilots as on a commissioned show. Look more often and you will see pilots being advertised on the usual sites.

As an aside not everyone who appears on shows have applied themselves, the casting teams will target specific groups of people that they have less/less good applications from and find a lot of people who never would have thought of appearing on TV in the first place. This happens on pilots and commissioned series.


Pilot audienced can be more "targeted" as well. When I lived up north, I often went to Media City for recordings of Countdown and Uni Challenge. I remember leaving one day after a Countdown recording, asking would I be interested in coming back tomorrow for being in the audience for a gameshow pilot, but I had to say no due to work commitments.
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Brekkie
Another spin off announced with Mark, Shaun and Anne going on a road trip across the US, UK and Japan.

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/itv-announce-the-chasers-road-trip
UB
UBox
Chase US to debut on January 7th 2021:

https://www.tvinsider.com/956266/abc-2021-premiere-dates-american-idol-celebrity-wheel-of-fortune/

Plus Super-Jahti to debut January 29th 2021:

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https://www.mtvspotti.fi/kampanjat/mtv-kevat-2021
Last edited by UBox on 14 November 2020 9:38am
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UBox
🚨New chaser alert🚨
Darragh Ennis - The Menace
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Meridian AM
The new Chaser is making his debut, on air now.
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The new Chaser is making his debut, on air now.

Caught his third ever player.
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Roger Darthwell
So glad that D.Ennis The Menace has finally arrived! May I wish him a long career as a Chaser! Good luck Darragh and Enjoy it!!

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