Type of arg 1 to push must be array (not private variable) at searchnews.pl line 52, near "@shows)"

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my ($stmt, $shows, $allshows);
   for my $i ( 0 .. $#ids ) {
      $stmt = "SELECT * FROM shows WHERE id = '$ids[$i]'";
      &execute_it( $stmt );   #sub that prepares and executes
		
      while ($shows = $sth->fetchall_arrayref({})) {
         push ($allshows, $shows);						
      }	
   }

   print Dumper ($allshows);