"Just A Minute" on TV
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lethargic_manI've just watched the first episode of the TV version of Just A Minute—or rather, watched the first half, then gone into the kitchen, where I have extra speakers, to do the washing up, having neither the time nor the inclination to sit around watching TV (though apparently both the time and the inclination to spend an equivalent amount of time blogging about it...).
Did you notice, if you watched it, that the contestants did not have, as is usual in such panel games, a display in front of them showing how many points each had?
The reason for that, if it's the same as for the radio show recording I attended, is because they'll have recorded forty-five minutes' worth of material, then edited it down to twenty-eight minutes, removing out-takes and selecting the best of what is rest, for broadcast. I strongly suspect that if you listen to the scores announced at the end of each round, and compare it to the points people have scored since the previous round, half the time it won't add up. But (almost) nobody is so anal as to do that, and nobody ever notices.
Did you notice, if you watched it, that the contestants did not have, as is usual in such panel games, a display in front of them showing how many points each had?
The reason for that, if it's the same as for the radio show recording I attended, is because they'll have recorded forty-five minutes' worth of material, then edited it down to twenty-eight minutes, removing out-takes and selecting the best of what is rest, for broadcast. I strongly suspect that if you listen to the scores announced at the end of each round, and compare it to the points people have scored since the previous round, half the time it won't add up. But (almost) nobody is so anal as to do that, and nobody ever notices.
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Date: 2012-04-02 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-02 01:05 pm (UTC)As Nicholas Parsons admits, the reason the previous attempt to make it into a TV show (which I didn't see) failed because they diddled with the format. This one sticks closely to that of the radio show.
What struck me, having seen a recording of the radio show, was all the set-dressing: For the radio show, it was just six people (one with a stopwatch in one hand and a whistle in the other*) behind a table, in an unadorned radio theatre. But you've got to have bright colours, and fancy desks and logos and all for TV version.
The one thing which wasn't rendered more visual than for the radio was Nicholas Parson's attire: He was wearing a bright, striped blazer when I saw him too.
* Which rather gives the lie to the button Nicholas Parsons was pressing to start the time off on the TV show: I doubt it's actually connected to anything!
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Date: 2012-04-02 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-04 12:17 pm (UTC)