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Steven Lamberts has been talking to Media Guardian and has implied the British version will see a couple of changes - inspired by the US version.
Firstly, at the end of each episode we will catch up with the couples six weeks later, while it is also implied more music will be used in each programme of the series.
The first makes sense - although sometimes it's best left to our imagination until the next "Wife Swap Changed our Marriage" programme.
The second - I've always felt Wife Swap use music well - but US shows generally don't know when to cut it. Wait and see I guess, but I'm not one to complain about background music because 90% of the time it adds to the programme.
The Media Guardian report:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1318817,00.html
Firstly, at the end of each episode we will catch up with the couples six weeks later, while it is also implied more music will be used in each programme of the series.
The first makes sense - although sometimes it's best left to our imagination until the next "Wife Swap Changed our Marriage" programme.
The second - I've always felt Wife Swap use music well - but US shows generally don't know when to cut it. Wait and see I guess, but I'm not one to complain about background music because 90% of the time it adds to the programme.
The Media Guardian report:
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The UK version of Wife Swap, which returns on October 17, has been influenced by the US version, which runs for 43 minutes compared with C4's 48, and is broken up into seven acts around six commercial breaks.
"The last act is only two minutes. What they asked us to do is what's happened since the end of filming, six weeks later. When we showed them to Channel 4 they said we want them in our British show. It's amazing that now I go back to watching the British ones and I think, oh it's so slow, why isn't there more music?"
It is also due to bigger budgets - the British version costs less than £150,000, and the American version costs $750,000. Lambert says that the background checks, blood tests and psychological analysis are incredibly rigorous, as are the massive legal contracts signed by contributors. "You have to wonder if the process will get tougher as people wise up. They have no right to prevent transmission, if people start playing up to camera you stop it."
"The last act is only two minutes. What they asked us to do is what's happened since the end of filming, six weeks later. When we showed them to Channel 4 they said we want them in our British show. It's amazing that now I go back to watching the British ones and I think, oh it's so slow, why isn't there more music?"
It is also due to bigger budgets - the British version costs less than £150,000, and the American version costs $750,000. Lambert says that the background checks, blood tests and psychological analysis are incredibly rigorous, as are the massive legal contracts signed by contributors. "You have to wonder if the process will get tougher as people wise up. They have no right to prevent transmission, if people start playing up to camera you stop it."
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1318817,00.html