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National Lottery draw from outside Lottery HQ (Arqiva)

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harshy Founding member
Markymark posted:
harshy posted:
Out of interest where is the studio for the National Lottery draws is it in BBC TV Centre or indeed somewhere else and is there really an audience, I very much doubt there is an audience for a show that last less then five minutes.


It comes from a reasonably secret location, not too far outside the M25. It's a tiny little studio, no audience can be accommodated.

I hear it's moving soon, to another location, not too far away from the present one.


Aah thanks Markymark Smile
JO
Jon
I think the fact that draws on a Wednesday and Friday will now be replaced with a caption on screen is the most interesting thing to come out of that article. They state "Reflecting people’s changing viewing habits and greater use of online technology to obtain the winning numbers, results-only captions for The National Lottery’s other draws will be shown on BBC One on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 22.35 straight after News at Ten. In keeping with players’ increased use of the internet to check results" probably true but it's obviously just a cost cutting measure.
SC
scottishtv Founding member
That news item talks about a bigger studio, but didn't they used to have a slightly larger studio - like when they did really cheesy things like show some number checkers at a desk?
HC
Hatton Cross
That was the same studio. They just don't use that bit of the set anymore. Or indeed any random member of the Initial Productions staff to play the role of 'Number checker'

Ahh - Daily Play. Now that was a great little lottery game to play. Matched no numbers and you got a free line for the day you claimed the ticket, I once got 6 numbers and trousered £300.
Not like the rubbish Plus 5 we have now - biggest win to date £25.

Thought they may go down the voice-over over numbers caption route. Much cheaper - it's already done for the national lottery update - which includes the most pointless statement of the week heard on television "the confirmed numbers are".. Well, of course they are the confirmed numbers, we saw them drop out of the drum...

And now they are letting us know the Euromillions numbers at a sensible time - now it's only 90 mins after the rest of Europe instead of 2 1/2 hours afterwards like it is now...
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Critique
Brekkie posted:
You didn't warn that clip may contain scenes of John Barrowman!!!

Did they also do the Thunderball on site - skipping through it couldn't seem to find the draw, but did find Leona Lewis. I knew ratings for The X Factor had fallen this year but didn't think they'd got so bad she'd turn up at the Lottery Awards rather than the final!


After the Lotto draw, Barrowman said something like 'Today's Thunderball draw was carried out in a secure location in front of an independent adjudicator, and the numbers were...'

Interesting programme, that. The clapping really was half-hearted, wasn't it? But then again, I've never seen the point of applauding their appearance! And was it just me, or was the music horribly out of time with the thing that played when a ball came out? That and the fact that the applauding and Barrowman saying something in the background interrupted Alan Dedicoat made it look quite bad, IMO.
SJ
sjhoward
Jon posted:
I think the fact that draws on a Wednesday and Friday will now be replaced with a caption on screen is the most interesting thing to come out of that article.


Indeed. Does this mean that the BBC will no longer be paying for the rights to anything other than the Saturday draws? Surely Camelot wouldn't be overly keen on losing the other draws given that they must act as good (free) advertising.

Could ITV potentially pick up, say, Wednesday nights given their keenness to get hold of the draw in the last round of negotiations (2006?)? Perhaps towards the end of this new contract, as part of an attempt to grab the more lucrative Saturday draws next time around? Or could they pop up elsewhere, like the Euromillions previously appearing on (I think) Challenge?
JO
Jon
sjhoward posted:

Could ITV potentially pick up, say, Wednesday nights given their keenness to get hold of the draw in the last round of negotiations (2006?)?

I think what this shows is, there is probably no demand for ITV to have the Lottery draws.
GE
thegeek Founding member
Jon posted:
Saw this tonight, sounds like it came from The London Studios as they said they were from London's South Bank.
Yup, it did indeed. Also a rare occasion for TLS to be live on BBC One.
HC
Hatton Cross
sjhoward posted:


Could ITV potentially pick up, say, Wednesday nights given their keenness to get hold of the draw in the last round of negotiations (2006?)? Perhaps towards the end of this new contract, as part of an attempt to grab the more lucrative Saturday draws next time around? Or could they pop up elsewhere, like the Euromillions previously appearing on (I think) Challenge?


The issue is would ITV want it? Camelot would want the Saturday/Wednesday draws as part of a programme, and the wraparound quiz format with BBC One suits both fine, as BBC One get a quiz, with a couple of draws, and it's not too much of distraction for Camelot either.

Go to ITV and for example it would be shown during X-Factor, and would be lost in the singing and shouting - or worse, run in it's own 3 min ad break.

Seems like the BBC were the only player in town for this. ITV didn't bother, it's not Channel 4's thing, and Channel 5 are too busy with running their owners illegal 2nd National Lottery (that's the Health Lottery) so that was a total non-starter. Doubt Camelot would go to Sky One for the Lotto and Thunderball draws - as they want them to be viewed by more than half a million...
GO
gottago
Didn't Euromillions start off on Sky One at 9pm? I think they were on UKTV Gold for a while as well.
BA
bilky asko
gottago posted:
Didn't Euromillions start off on Sky One at 9pm? I think they were on UKTV Gold for a while as well.

They were definitely on Sky One - I remember because there were a few occasions when they couldn't go live to Paris.
JO
Jon
bilky asko posted:
gottago posted:
Didn't Euromillions start off on Sky One at 9pm? I think they were on UKTV Gold for a while as well.

They were definitely on Sky One - I remember because there were a few occasions when they couldn't go live to Paris.

Presented from a gallery by Liz Bonnin of course.

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