The guest announcer bit was clearly taped when introducing the "grab the ads" bit at the start of the show, when they cut to Simon Pegg to do the "oink oink" bit, the tape stalled halfway through, causing Ant to look perplexed in an "oh bugger, here comes another scandal" type way.
The rest was live, apart from the obvious pre-records like canteen and beat the boys race etc!
The clock in the canteen, after the titles when Simon was announcing who was on the show, was about 5min slow, so i assume it was on some sort of delay.
I really enjoyed this on Saturday, and wasn't really expecting to because it normally feels too repetitive, etc. I thought the games they had on were good, and there was a lot packed into the show too! I really enjoyed Ant vs Dec when they were ice skating and fell over- that was really funny! Plus Beat the Boys was great with the new obstacles on the course, overall a good show!
*IF* the show was live, would there be any need for it to actually be live...?
Even with Jiggy Bank, it wasn't as if they used their Sky Digital stream to downlink to Portugal...
If you watched closely, it was cleverly done. It wasn't downlinking the ITV show on Sky, as when we saw the woman, we also saw Ant and Dec on the screen talking to her (if it was Sky feed we would have seen her), so there was a "clean feed" being sent back to Portugal of the studio.
So... it could have still been recorded, and got away with. Afterall, recording and faking competitions seems to be the in-thing these days!
*IF* the show was live, would there be any need for it to actually be live...?
Even with Jiggy Bank, it wasn't as if they used their Sky Digital stream to downlink to Portugal...
If you watched closely, it was cleverly done. It wasn't downlinking the ITV show on Sky, as when we saw the woman, we also saw Ant and Dec on the screen talking to her (if it was Sky feed we would have seen her), so there was a "clean feed" being sent back to Portugal of the studio.
So... it could have still been recorded, and got away with. Afterall, recording and faking competitions seems to be the in-thing these days!
Oh yes that's so clever. Wouldn't it look just a little stupid to have a picture of her on the screen on which Ant & Dec were meant to be speaking to her? All she'd see is what we were seeing - herself - and be wondering what the hell was going on. Doesn't take a genius does it, but around here maybe it does.
Everything bar pre titles was live. And as for the questions about why it isn't recorded (there's apparently no need?), why NOT?! Ant & Dec love live TV, the team on Takeaway do and it livens up TV on a Saturday night. If it's all so pointless they might as well just have the news completely with reports - to hell with a studio and presenter, we don't NEED them eh? I'd hate to think what the state of TV would be like if some people here were put in charge - Paxman on ITV Primetime!
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