Television is for everyone, and if you know where to look you can become a part of the showbusiness world. Whether you want to be a member of a studio audience or try your luck as a gameshow contestant, your ticket to fame and, perhaps, fortune is just a few mouse-clicks away.
One website that will help is www.Tvrecordings.com. Calling itself London’s premier site for free online audience tickets, it is currently offering entry to Jimmy Carr’s Channel 4 show 8 Out of Ten Cats, Harry Hill’s TV Burp and ITV’s The 5 O’Clock Show. Its FAQ claims that “being a part of a TV audience is a unique form of live entertainment”. You can find out if this is true by registering.
But perhaps you want to become part of reality TV. With the BBC you can put your impending marriage, your garden and your delinquent children before an expectant audience of millions by applying for such shows as For Better or Worse, Digging Deep and Honey, We’re Killing the Kids. Quiz addicts can also apply to be contestants on Sudo-Q and In it to Win It. The BBC website also has a tickets section for those who just want to watch Top of the Pops.
Both Channel 4 and Five offer the same service on their websites, as well as a sneak peek at forthcoming projects. So be the first to see Channel 4’s The Deadly Knowledge Quiz Show (“pop culture meets posh culture”) or submit your progeny to Teenagers and Relationships, a new documentary series that “will look into what teenagers think about relationships, sex and growing up”. Of course, you could just stay at home and watch the ghastly results.
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