I noticed this too - Craig David had NOT pressed the button and the 1st ball had already been drawn and the cameras had not picked up on this. Only Alan Dedicoat had spotted the 1st ball had already been drawn.
Surely this must be the 1st time in which the lottery machine started without someone pressing the button?
Then again, the draw master may have been a bit hasty pushing the button behind the draw-machine as we all know that BIG RED BUTTON is only there for effect - it actually serves no purpose whatsoever!
...as we all know that BIG RED BUTTON is only there for effect - it actually serves no purpose whatsoever!
What is the point of these "lottery shows"? Can't they just flash up the numbers during a break instead of this idea of getting celebrities to press a pointless button.
If I was a big winner I wouldn't care if a tramp they dragged off the street had actually selected the machine, set of balls & pushed the button. I just wanna know the numbers at the end of the day!
If I was a big winner I wouldn't care if a tramp they dragged off the street had actually selected the machine, set of balls & pushed the button. I just wanna know the numbers at the end of the day!
Seems to me that the classy thing to do would be to ring up and pledge £169 for the tramp to get a room for the night in central London.
God - people actually thought those buttons really started the draws.
I think in the early days they did when they had a podium with several buttons, but when they switched to have just one stage button you could often clearly see the drawmaster pushing another button at the same time as the random celebrity.
And surely in the era when they used the same button to start all the machines it should have given it away!
What is the point of these "lottery shows"? Can't they just flash up the numbers during a break instead of this idea of getting celebrities to press a pointless button.
Yeah and also the music guests seem out of place with the flow of the rest of the show.. its almost like a modern day version of the interlude.
"And now the Lotto draw but before that...here's Girls Aloud miming their new single..." GET ON WITH IT!
What is the point of these "lottery shows"? Can't they just flash up the numbers during a break instead of this idea of getting celebrities to press a pointless button.
It's far more open and transparent if the draw is done on live TV, with so much money at stake it could look a bit shifty if they just put up a caption with the numbers on
It's far more open and transparent if the draw is done on live TV, with so much money at stake it could look a bit shifty if they just put up a caption with the numbers on
Indeed, Chief Inspector, but that was never necessary for Sky One or UKTV Gold when just flashing up the numbers. Nor has it been necessary to show EuroMillions or the Daily Draw live on a terrestrial channel.
There are mechanisms in place to ensure Camelot run the lottery selections according to the rules. It's not in their interest to fiddle with rubber balls, they would have no advantage by doing so.
The focus should drift more towards the organisations that distribute the money, perhaps!
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Ben posted:
Do you mean when the door on the back of the machine wasn't closed properly so the draw couldn't take place, as seen here?
I did chuckle at that clip Ben. It was even better than Eammon Holmes running from the stage waving his arms like a frightened fat screaming child a couple of years ago!
That clip is a reminder if nothing else, of just how much the Lottery show has changed in a decade. Another programme no longer made at Television Centre (ok, the gameshow bits might be, but the draws themselves are in 'Lotter HQ' wherever that is, in a studio the size of a teacosy by the look of it).
Saturdays back in 1996 used to be really terrific at Television Centre. There'd be the usual shanigens in PresA for CBBC, then Live and Kicking in TC7 with the top pop bands of the day, some of whom might hang around the Centre all day to appear on Noel's House Party (TC1) or the Lottery (TC3 or 4) later. That and Grandstand in TC5 (with the huge VT suites in the post production area acting almost as secondary galleries for all the sports feeds) and the usual Sitcoms and Gameshows being recorded in TC6 and 8, left only TC2 (which was at the time Newsnight's main studio ISTR) not being routinely booked. I reckon the late 90s was the last time TVC really felt like a Television Factory.
