Antiques Roadshow Coming To Sarasota In April

SARASOTA, FL - Antiques Roadshow, PBS’s most-watched ongoing series, will be coming to Sarasota on Thursday, April 12 during a five-city tour. A random drawing will be held for tickets in early March.

In each hour-long episode, specialists from the country's leading auction houses and independent dealers offer free appraisals of antiques and collectibles. The show features tales of family heirlooms, flea market finds and items saved from attics and basements, while experts reveal the truths about these items.

If you’d like to tickets to the show, you have to enter a drawing for free tickets. You can register online through Feb. 27. Go to pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/tickets to enter. You can get more information by calling 888-762-3749.

Here's how to apply for tickets works:

1. Submit your ticket application by 11:59 p.m. PT, Tuesday, Feb. 27.
2. You'll receive a unique application number via email, which will also include a link you can use to review your ticket application.
3. If your ZIP code makes you eligible, you can add an online furniture submission to the ticket application at any time before the Feb. 27 deadline.
4. On or about March 8 ticket winners will be selected in a random drawing. All applicants will receive an email in mid-March with a link to an online Ticket Checker, which you can use to find out if you've won tickets.

Other cities on the tour include: Tulsa, Okla., Louisville, Ky., San Diego and Rochester, Mich.
Roadshow is seen by around 8 million viewers each week.

Patte Bogart, left, makes her way past Angelina Orona, right, during the "Antiques Roadshow" event in Los Angeles Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005. Bogart carries an 1840 doll bed made by her great great great great grandfather along with a circa 1932 Patsy doll and clothes trunk. (AP Photo/Kim D. Johnson)