I think it might simply be because E4 have the time-delay in place as a necessity for daytime streaming output, therefore always use it, whereas Channel 4 don't because AFAIK they never do live daytime streaming.
Ingenious! Just saw how wicked they are trying to be. They set up a bedroom with getting a contestant into bed in pj's and get some granny to read them a bedtime story in a calm soft voice in the vain to get them to fall to sleep and it worked. Very funny to watch!.
I think Shattered is OK - it's quite blatantly being pinned (by C4) as Big Bro with a twist (but as it comes from the same production team that's no surprise) - it's interesting from an experiment point of view, plus it means E4's overnight feed isn't just people asleep - you can stay up all night watching people stay up all night!
What happens on E4 during a 'sleep bank' - where the contestants are allowed their block of sleep? Does E4 switch to another show? Or are these scheduled to tie in with Friends and the Shattered repeat?
I'm bored with the show now. I don't really care who wins.
By the way, to anybody who works on it and knows:
how does the time delay work? I mean, someone says something bad, so the operator reacts AFTER the words have been started and does something to block the whole chunk from the output, but how?
how does the time delay work? I mean, someone says something bad, so the operator reacts AFTER the words have been started and does something to block the whole chunk from the output, but how?
If it's the same as Big Brother, someone monitors the action as it happens, notes the timecodes of anything dodgy and passes them to a vision mixer (also at the OB) who then obscures the VT at the appropriate time.
Someone I know will know for sure - I'll ask him next time I speak to him.
I think you know the answer to that question, Mr Green!
I just think things like this are entirely pointless. I can just about cope with Big Brother - it's interesting on the grounds that it's popular, and Channel 4 usually make some effort to fill the house full of psychopaths* - but why on Earth would I want to watch a house of apparently boring people trying to stay awake?
Dermot o'thingy is just... ooh, shut him up. He's the sort of person who'd say "got yer" as an indication of comprehension. Highly irritating.
*Incidentally, I know Anoushka (though probably can't spell her name) to a certain degree; she is a close friend of a close friend. As far as I can tell, having chatted to her for a while, she is actually a genuinely nice person... even if hardly anyone turned up for her birthday party.
Thanks Dan, I can see how that would work. Presumably the same vision technique you've mentioned would be applied to blocking out audio, based on timecode.
So basically, it sounds like someone is sat there watching the time-delayed feed passing through on a server or something, and has to react at the timecodes provided by the live monitoring team.
How rude was that ettiquette woman on night school last night. "I'm so tired - I usually go to bed at 10.30pm".
Anyway, as she say's anyone can make up ettiquette rules, I'd suggest Sleep Deprivation ettiquette - don't say your tired because you've been up a couple of hours longer than normal when people getting 1-2 hrs sleep a day are present.
How rude was that ettiquette woman on night school last night. "I'm so tired - I usually go to bed at 10.30pm".
Anyway, as she say's anyone can make up ettiquette rules, I'd suggest Sleep Deprivation ettiquette - don't say your tired because you've been up a couple of hours longer than normal when people getting 1-2 hrs sleep a day are present.
Hang on a second! They're not being forced to. And if anything, she was told to say that to make it even more "hard" for the contestant people.
