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Don't bother applying for tickets for the show...

posted 18 years ago by MorticianEd
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Firstly it takes ages to actually get hold of any, and secondly, when you do manage to get tickets, you're not even guaranteed to get in. I had tickets for last night's show and we arrived an hour before the doors opened, thinking that perhaps we would get a better seat that way. We didn't even get to go in! As we were queuing, they were letting a stream of 'specially invited guests' in ahead of us (not sure who they had to sleep with to get that privilege, but anyway...), so by the time us 'normal' people started going in, there were only 50-100 seats left (maybe not even that many) and they turned a load of us away! Good job I only travelled 25 miles to see the show...

So unless you're a huge fan of Ant and Dec and are prepared to queue for 5 hours, my advice is: don't bother.

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[–] huskies_nd_horses 18 years ago

OH MY GOD?!?! Really? did you get anexplanatoin or your money back?!?! or was u just sent back and thats it?!?

[–] mooseange1983 18 years ago

Tickets to tv shows are free and you are warned that you're not guaranteed entry to the studio because they give out more tickets than there are seats available to make sure they don't have any 'no shows' and empty seats left in the studio. It is a tad ridiculous you have to queue for so long but I can't see any other way they could do it.

Did you not get given priority tickets for the following week/another show? That's what usually happens in my experience. But I've never been given tickets for SNT even though I've applied every series! I'm from Liverpool though so I think they only give tickets to people near London for that very reason.

[–] MorticianEd 17 years ago

The tickets were free, so that wasn't a problem - and I do understand why they give out too many - but we weren't advised that this would be the case. As far as we were concerned we would get a seat no matter what. (Live and learn, eh!) They haven't offered us replacement tickets either, despite telling us they'd "try and send an e-mail within the next week" - and this was on the night of the first show of the series.

It's a shame really - I was hoping they'd send me tickets for the X Factor! (But really only so I could flick bits of paper at the back of Louis Walsh's head... )

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (10213601) 17 years ago

the "special privilaged people" as you said are the people who rang in on the previous show.

they always say after a phone in 2 win prizes "stay on the line and find out how you can be here next week with a chance to win the ads!"

there the people, so just "normal" folk as well!!

[–] MorticianEd 17 years ago

Ah, I see. There were a hell of a lot of them though.

And I meant 'normal' in the sense that we weren't in the 'specially invited guests' category. I'm sure there were people in that category who were much more normal than me!

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[–] shazeroon 17 years ago

I shall stick to watching them on TV where I can pick my nose happily in the privacy of my home

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[–] death_of_the_endless 16 years ago

I used to work in the ticketing office for the BBC and I can tell you that it's the same for most television recordings - Strictly Come Dancing for example is exactly the same. On the day of recording the producer can decide to let in even more special guests than were originally planned and there are about 50 seats for the public there too. The people responsible for the ticketing should have made you aware that a ticket does not guarantee entry - we would have got severely reprimanded if we didn't do that (not that everyone did unfortunately).

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