Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 2016

Hopefully it should be great - feels like the first time in years an entertainment show has gone beyond the norm.

FFS!

Mods ... please split the off-topic footie related wibble from this thread!

'Tis split! Looking forward to tomorrow's show. I wonder what ITV have scheduled as a backup ....just in case ?

I would say various highlights from the series gone by. Much like the highlights package done when X Factor failed to go on air due to problems at BT Tower a few years back.

Do they not record rehearsals?

I thought the entire ship had been hired by the production company because when they announced that ship was being used late last year, there was no actual cruise scheduled. There is one that departs Barcelona on Monday though. I'm guessing this is the cruise that the winners (and other paying guests) will be on?

It is currently docked in Barcelona and has been since last Monday. A few guests are complaining about the last cruise because they were getting the sets ready whilst still at sea.

I'm looking forward to it big time!

I'm a travel agent and have customers booked on that cruise who booked almost a year ago.

According to the itinerary on the P&O Cruises website, Britannia only docked in Barcelona yesterday having sailed from Southampton on Easter Sunday and is due to set sail from Barcelona tonight!

Hopefully something better than the Spotlight Ferry farce

http://wiki.tx.mb21.co.uk/index.php?title=The_Great_Weymouth_Ferry_Disaster

Britannia can have over 3,500 passengers on board, so to fill every cabin with competition winners would be a big ask indeed.

From what I've read on a cruise ship forum, the production crew boarded last Sunday and sailed from Southampton doing the technicals.

The only disruptions has been the public areas around one of the pools which has been out of bounds for a couple of days, whilst setting up of the stage/set takes place, and due to the noise, no fare paying passengers are in cabins directly under the area, where the construction is taking place. Those cabins are where the production crews are staying. Ant and Dec didn't sail from Southampton, although some filming for vt inserts has.

Would love to know about the actual ob technicals. If the gallery is a fly away and in a room somewhere, or if all wires are slung off the port side rails and down into a ob truck on the quayside below.

It was mentioned on last weeks show that the ship would be leaving the next day (Sunday). I guess Ant and Dec will be flying in today (or arrived yesterday) for rehearsals.

Hopefully we will get to see some more behind the scenes shots today, or a video.

I've seen the info on the P&O website. It mentions that this is a family friendly cruise due to it being Easter holidays, rather than the stereotypical age group you'd usually expect on a cruise. It mentions how only very minor areas will be out of bounds during the set up with the entire pool area out of bounds now. It also says that not all cruise passengers will get to be audience members for the show.

If you follow SNT or Ant and Dec on Twitter you'll see they arrived yesterday it seems for script meetings and rehearsals. Little Ant and Dec have been on board throughout though.

There's a few behind the scenes shots on their Instagram: https://i.instagram.com/itvtakeaway/