Season 52 New Studio Experience!

[sayingsorry]

so I have to assume they promised those seat fillers they would get paid if they stuck around for the 12:00 taping.

It was certainly a slow period (although I had heard that the 12:00 taping the day before had to turn away a number of Line Vouchers, which helped fill out the 3:00 line) If it is the case that paid seat fillers in line outside the studio get priority over audience members currently in the studio, that’s really disappointing. There were only 20 or 25 holdover contestants from the previous taping and I didn’t see any numbers higher than the 140s all trip.

I have to assume these seat fillers work on a required minimum amount of hours so instead of paying them to sit around they are willing to bump others so they use what they are paying for.