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The Weakest Link - 1000th Episode

(January 2008)

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GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
StuartPlymouth posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
Its shot at Pinewood. Maybe not easy to pull a regular crowd.

I did a primetime show in 2001and many of the audience were researchers, runners and friends thereof.

Is your part-time career as a game show contestant lucrative Gavin?


Only when I win.

I was going to be a bit of a talking head on C4's TV Show this Saturday but sadly they can't cover my expenses. True story.

They are a delightful bunch though, so maybe next month.
ST
Stuart
Gavin Scott posted:
I was going to be a bit of a talking head on C4's TV Show this Saturday but sadly they can't cover my expenses. True story.

They are a delightful bunch though, so maybe next month.

I was asked to be on the old "Right to Reply" about 8 years ago. I was one of their on-line panel that submitted comments by Email each week on selected programmes. They rang me at work asking me to go to London to take part - I bottled out because I was a very shy young thing back then! Confused
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tvarksouthwest
Right To Reply always seemed to require its participants to come up to London - I was asked in 1997 but had to decline.

A shame they got rid of the Video Boxes really.
DE
deejay
It's quite hard to get audiences for backwater TV shows. In the good ole days of regional ITV programmes (remember them?) and in my first work experience week within television, I was given the job of getting audiences for two sessions of studio recordings to be made that week at Central's Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham. It was for a regional gameshow that wasn't exactly well known. Basically I sat with a Yellow Pages and phoned schools, care homes, colleges with Media courses etc. I don't recall how many tickets were available for each studio recording but it can't have been more than around a hundred - it was very tricky to persuade people to come along!

I'm sure The Weakest Link has no problem getting audiences for the specials, but long term it might get a little tricky. These days of course, it's getting increasingly difficult to get to see TV shows being made as studio centres seem to be in terminal decline and shows are increasingly being made with canned audiences (eg The Lottery Draws - how on earth they can get away with that in the current truth regime at the BBC I do not know) or without audiences at all (eg Eggheads).
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
deejay posted:
It's quite hard to get audiences for backwater TV shows. In the good ole days of regional ITV programmes (remember them?) and in my first work experience week within television, I was given the job of getting audiences for two sessions of studio recordings to be made that week at Central's Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham. It was for a regional gameshow that wasn't exactly well known. Basically I sat with a Yellow Pages and phoned schools, care homes, colleges with Media courses etc. I don't recall how many tickets were available for each studio recording but it can't have been more than around a hundred - it was very tricky to persuade people to come along!

I'm sure The Weakest Link has no problem getting audiences for the specials, but long term it might get a little tricky. These days of course, it's getting increasingly difficult to get to see TV shows being made as studio centres seem to be in terminal decline and shows are increasingly being made with canned audiences (eg The Lottery Draws - how on earth they can get away with that in the current truth regime at the BBC I do not know) or without audiences at all (eg Eggheads).


When I did Golden Balls last season Jasper Carrot voiced his exasperation with BBC Audience Services who failed to provide even one bank of full seats. Those who attended (including studio crew and assistants) were seated to be in frame when required then moved for other shots.

It was an unknown show at the time and late in the run (we were RX 38 of 40) although the audience certainly sounded larger for season 2 which recently started.

I suppose its quite common, even at TVC.

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