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The last programme on ITV was ‘An Audience with Adele’ in 2021.

Before this there was a very long gap i.e. posthumous episode featuring Les Dawson in 2013 and before this Barry Manilow in 2011.

1.Who do you think should be the next celebrity featured as part of the series?

2.Would you pay to see this type of programme/event live? One example that I found online was Francis Rossi ‘Tunes & Chat’ where the prices were:

£30 standard seats = admits the ticketholder to the show.

£45 VIP = includes goodie bag and ticket for the show.

£80 SUPER VIP = includes pre-show meet’n’greet, goodie bag and ticket for the show.

Lastly, I am currently undertaking PhD research at Aberystwyth University Business School and would be grateful if you could please take the time to complete an online survey based on these types of tickets i.e. VIP/Hospitality packages as noted in point 2. Further details can be found on this link:
https://aber.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/vip-hospitality-entertainment-event-survey

Thank you very much.
 
Angela Channing

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Mmm. I'm not sure there are as many big TV personalities today that there were in the 1980s and 1990 to make the format work. Maybe An Audience with Ant and Dec or with Graham Norton would work. I think there was once An Audience With Coronation Street so perhaps one with Emmerdale might be interesting.

I wouldn't pay to watch it live though. It's filmed for TV so there will be a lot of stopping and starting to redo bits, producers telling the audience when to applaud and cameras getting in the way of the action. I think the production company should give audience tickets free as they usually do for shows filmed before a studio audience.

Good luck with your PhD.
 
Englishboy

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The “an audience with” format was originally the preserve of variety comics.

The likes of Victoria Wood, Bob Monkhouse, Freddie Starr, dame Edna Everage and Jimmy Tarbuck (amongst others) were all given the compliment of being asked to do the ”format” at one time or another in the 1980s and 1990s.

So, continuing this theme I would like to see them do either “an audience with Lee Mack” or “ an audience with Jimmy Carr” ( two modern day comics).

Also, they should film it at the London Palladium (now that the old LWT studios on the south bank are defunct) as they did with the Adele one - the London Palladium, of course, being the home of variety entertainment.
 
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Also, I would like to see them do an audience with Bradley Walsh (one of the most ubiquitous faces on TV) or an audience with Brian Conley (although he mostly acts these days).
 
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Looking forward to the Kylie one, but I do prefer when they do it with comedians. Dame Edna did 3 and they were all fab, Feddie Starr did one once and I don't think it's ever been repeated. Billy Connoly was a classic and An Evening with Lily Savage was one of the funniest TV specials ever.

I think Dawn French would work very well, Bradley Walsh would too. I'd have loved to see one with Michael Crawford but he's probably too old now and wouldn't be interested.
 
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I remember the episode of Father Ted where Bishop Brennan tells Father Ted and Father Dougall that he's off to Rome tomorrow for an audience with the Pope.

Father Dougall says he loves those programmes - have you seen the one with Elton John!?! :)
 
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