Free TV audience tickets

hunnycat

Caz3121 wrote: »

Daughter and friends travelled from Edinburgh to Glasgow yesterday for BGT and were also turned away with about 100+ others.
they ended up going to Primark instead!

I had tickets for this and we got abuse from the security ( the ones with the crew not the Stewards) there was more than 100 people turned away, we walked back to the car park with a large group before the doors even opened. I think it was a few hundred who were not getting in.
I never knew they would over subscribe it by so much.
I complained to ITV about the abuse i got but they just told me to go to the applause store to complain!

Never doing this again as we were very dissapointed.

natxxx1

PeachyJem wrote: »

I had manchester tickets for BGT - got there, was told it was full and that i couldn't go in. about 200+ people were turned away! we were so so upset and dissapointed! When they issue tickets they should tick off how many have gone and stop giving them out after they are full. They were no help when we phoned, just basically told us tough, tickets arent a guarantee :mad::mad: We had missed a days work etc to go to it. Like above poster says, please be careful and arrive very early!!

It does say clearly that the ticket does not guarentee entry which is why we booked two night hotel - so we could get there early enough! but my email said that their equipment would take up 20% of seating. They must of known that before!! Anyway to avoid disapointment just becareful and great if you do get to go!
N x

fiesta_boy18

i just my tickets for britains got talent cardiff on tue 3rd feb
it says the doors open at 18:15 and close 18:45
can anyone tell me a suggested time on when i should get there not to be disapointed? cheers

SamP_2

:j Thank you. Britain gots talent looks fun.

miss-coordinated

the waiting list for Top Gear tickets is actually a LOT more than 1-2 years now- it's estimated at around 12 years! (Just imagine how old Jeremy will be by then!)

Still there's always the Top Gear Live show!
Tickets aren't free, but they are more than worth the money (hence they always sell out pretty quickly)
Then again, i am just a teensy weensy bit biased

cardiff2007

fiesta_boy18 wrote: »

i just my tickets for britains got talent cardiff on tue 3rd feb
it says the doors open at 18:15 and close 18:45
can anyone tell me a suggested time on when i should get there not to be disapointed? cheers

This years it's in the new Theatre which is a really small venue last year it was the millenium centre and we got there an hour and a half before time and were still in a massive queue

cardiffgirl_2

At 7.20pm this evening I got an email cancelling my tickets for tomorrow's Hammersmith show. As a previous poster mentioned they say it is because their equipment takes up so much space they have less capacity for audience - I would imagine they could have worked that out a little sooner than less than 24 hours before the show!
I have previously been turned away from an Applause Store screening for a kids tv show, on that occasion they didn't let in anyone with their tickets, said that the show was unexpectedly full and nobody could come in.
Great if you get in but always a risk it won't work out so be very wary re any travel or hotel arrangements you can't change.

Kirsjude

cardiffgirl wrote: »

At 7.20pm this evening I got an email cancelling my tickets for tomorrow's Hammersmith show. As a previous poster mentioned they say it is because their equipment takes up so much space they have less capacity for audience - I would imagine they could have worked that out a little sooner than less than 24 hours before the show!
I have previously been turned away from an Applause Store screening for a kids tv show, on that occasion they didn't let in anyone with their tickets, said that the show was unexpectedly full and nobody could come in.
Great if you get in but always a risk it won't work out so be very wary re any travel or hotel arrangements you can't change.

I have just seen the same email :mad:

It is really bad letting people down at such short notice.

cardiff2007

It seems like BGT are booking smaller venues so maybe thats why theres a problem with audience capacity bit of a bummer as it puts you off botherng booking tickets next time, i enjoyed most of the experience last year the only bit i didn't like was the fact that they only gave you about 5 minutes for a break so you didn'nt even get a proper toilet break a lot of people get hacked off and leave after an hour or so becuase it's a lot of waiting around.

jules1964

cardiff2007 wrote: »

It seems like BGT are booking smaller venues so maybe thats why theres a problem with audience capacity bit of a bummer as it puts you off botherng booking tickets next time, i enjoyed most of the experience last year the only bit i didn't like was the fact that they only gave you about 5 minutes for a break so you didn'nt even get a proper toilet break a lot of people get hacked off and leave after an hour or so becuase it's a lot of waiting around.

I have tickets for today, but after reading the above comments, I am going to send an email and cancel them now. I have flu but still wanted to go, but the thought of hanging around for hours, maybe not even getting in and not being allowed to go to the loo when I want sounds awful!