Friday, September 18, 2009

Lights, Camera, Action!

Since arriving in London I have discovered the joys of free audience tickets to see TV shows being filmed...yes free!

Over the last couple of weeks I've been to see two tapings. The first was for UK Ready Steady Cook at the BBC in White City (so much more professional than the aussie version, no cards with pictures of capsicums...sorry peppers....and tomatoes here....electronic voting pads!). However, having not had dinner beforehand it was agony seeing and smelling all that lovely food being cooked and not being able to eat any! Of course for health and safety reasons they couldn't possibly offer the audience any food (UK political correctness strikes again). Mental note: eat before doing something like this again.

The second was a filming of My Family (very funny sitcom) at the BBC Teddington Studios. Ironically the episode of My Family we saw was called The Melbourne Affair with a very ocker aussie actor in it! Slightly annoyed however that after arriving early to receive our numbered sticker then retiring to the pub next door for a pint, that we were all then shepherded in in groups ignoring number order, meaning we all couldn't sit together. Oh but weren't we told that at the door? Uh....no! But I know I know, the tickets were free...

3 comments:

  1. Hi Narelle! What did you have to do to get the free tickets? I have always wanted to see a live taping!

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  2. Check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/tickets/ where they list all available tickets. Also suggest signing up to the mailing list which alerts you when they release new ones. Good idea to arrive to the filmings at the time the gates open (or even a little earlier) as there was a queue at both and it's first come first served...they give out more tickets than there are seats.

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  3. Thanks, Narelle! I'll do that! :-)

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