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The National Lottery:This Time Tomorrow

(July 2008)

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A former member
YES, I have always believed that said show were live, look at

* Jet set:
* winning lines

when did it get so bad? I think ITV could do a better job that this1
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flaziola
Not sure about Winning Lines but Jet Set was definatly live as the tdraw used to take place in the same studio with a crane shot panning from game to draw.
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Andrew Founding member
Why do they even bother connecting these shows to the lottery thesedays. Can't they be billed as 2 seperate programmes?

It surely must annoy people who want to watch the lotto draws as you don't know where in the programme they will appear
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Square Eyes Founding member
It all changed didn't it when they started going to Lottery HQ, and they got their own set and stuff.

In "In it to Win It" I seem to remember that Dale used to appear to go off set from the pre-recorded gameshow to press the button himself live, but that no longer happens.
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ashley b Founding member
That was the weird thing about the show on Saturday, they rolled the credits of the gameshow, and then handed over to the National Lottery HQ for the draws, as though it was a separate show. Is this what normally happens these days?
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Square Eyes Founding member
ashley b posted:
That was the weird thing about the show on Saturday, they rolled the credits of the gameshow, and then handed over to the National Lottery HQ for the draws, as though it was a separate show. Is this what normally happens these days?


No, that's something new, even with the Lottery HQ, it's usually an insert into the actual programme, usually going back for the "climax" of the gameshow.
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SOL
I think they went to pre-recorded shows after the studio was invaded by feminists a few years back Laughing
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A former member
The sound quality was very poor on the show too.

If it was made by BBC Scotland then that's understandable as the " laughter " on their comedy shows always sounds strange to programmes produced elsewhere.
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SOL
Most of their comedy shows aren't produced by the beeb though.
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noggin Founding member
SOL posted:
I think they went to pre-recorded shows after the studio was invaded by feminists a few years back Laughing


It was Fathers for Justice, and they invaded the draw bit (which is always live on Saturdays) The game show bits had been routinely pre-recorded long before the incursion of the protestors. It may have been an added incentive to move the draw to Arqiva from TV Centre though. (It has a permanent studio - and the Arqiva studio is on the same site as the British Forces Broadcasting Service operation at Chalfont, so has quite tight security)

The gameshow element is usually a wrap-around and either entirely pre-recorded, or partially so (some game formats are based on the numbers drawn in the live draw)
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SOL
Oops lol I knew it was something political.

I know that was at the draw part but was it not actually attached live to the gameshow as Eamonn Holmes and Sarah Cawood were the presenters.
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noggin Founding member
SOL posted:
Oops lol I knew it was something political.

I know that was at the draw part but was it not actually attached live to the gameshow as Eamonn Holmes and Sarah Cawood were the presenters.

Depends on the game show format - some had pre-recorded bits before the draw, and live bits after, some were all recorded, with the presenters just returning to TVC (and wearing the same clothes and ensuring their mics were in the same place) for the draw.

The standalone draw used not to have an audience - so I suspect this draw was integrated into the programme? Otherwise there would have been no-one to invade (the standalone lotteries just have spot audience fx played in)

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