And making the second series before the first was even aired seems totally ridiculous. It means they can't even react to viewers and potentionally make changes to the second series that could have improved things.
It seems like the sort of show that starts off in early peak and then creeps earlier and earlier in the schedule to be burned off. (Puppet Gameshow, Don't Scare the Hare).
It's already an hour earlier by episode 4 on 9 September. It can't get much earlier because of Final Score.
I admit I liked That Puppet Game Show, but I guess I'm in a minority! But Don't Scare The Hare was awful! May have been passable as a CBBC show, but Saturday prime time with adults playing? Not to mention the producers don't know the difference between a hare and a rabbit
I was going to say, excessive editing can give the impression of a canned audience. They might also "enhance" audience sound with the canned stuff. It's a cheap and nasty way to cover clunky edits.
No real need to use 'canned' stuff - you just use some from somewhere else in the recording (or the warm up...)
Yes indeed, and as you will agree it's not unusual for the warm up person to ask the audience to do a couple of rounds of clapping 'just to test the microphones' before the studio recording begins.
I think I still have my copy of an audience 'laughter and clapping' quarter inch tape in the garage somewhere. I recall that many, many years ago when we were recording Sky's version of 'Sale of the Century' and 'Sky Star Search' that the audience was really only in the few dozens and as there was no post production whatsoever audience reinforcement was added live - quite a skill.
I do wonder about the intelligence of programme makers of today that come up with rubbish shows like this,, its the same with Bradley Walsh, who has gone from an enjoyable prog like the Chase, to cash strapped rubbish show
I will join James-2001 in saying I didn't mind That Puppet Gameshow either. Don't Scare The Hare, well, if it was a one-off experiment for Easter some changes could have been made before blowing it up to a full series - ie by not bothering in the first place. It may have worked better on CBeebies or CBBC than Saturday night BBC One, heck if they can make a gameshow based on the British Museum "incredibly popular" (see my post in the "shows that people forget" thread, bottom of page 58 ) then this would have been right up their street.
As for Cash Trapped... I couldn't get into it last time and I still can't get into it now. Still if people like it, good for them.
As to Les Goodman's new vehicle... oh dear. Producers should probably be wary of presuming a second series will get to air at all, after all Central went as far as getting Hardwicke House ready for a second series long before the first had aired. We all know what happened to that.
