Dancing on Ice goes Gold

Did you see that? A woman in the audience behind Colin Jackson just took a photograph with a flash directly in to the television camera. It lit up the whole screen. It will be interesting to see if she is still sitting there during the rest of the programme. Either way, I bet she doesn't take any more photographs.

I guess this is recorded as live but I would have expected them to cut away when the woman took the photograph.

According to @Schofe on Twitter, the camera was confiscated during the next break.

It was recorded at the end of the last run of the show but I'm guessing they didn't want to re-film that bit...

Because it was recorded as live they'd probably get a continuity error if they reshot it especially with him straight off the ice and out of breath. There were really only two shots they could choose- the one they did or the long shot with the skaters, Phil, Chris & Jayne. The long shot might have looked daft and you probably would have seen the flash but no source so it would have looked bizarre.

I'm not paying much interest but did see that bit- did ITV give out a flash photography warning at all?

Couldn't they have just recorded and shown a cutaway of the audience for a few seconds?

Or it wouldn't have taken a moment to fix it (even very roughly, it'd be preferable I'd have thought) in an edit suite, would it?

For those who missed it (I only got these off ITVplayer so there may have been worse frames on broadcast):



I hope that woman's pleased with her photo of the back of Colin Jackson's head

David

If it would end up anything like how the T4 repeats of Big Brother evictions used to be then it's a good call to leave it! They might have had options but left it in on purpose purely so it came across as live.