Sunday, October 18, 2020

What Reality and Game Show Tapings Are Like


Everyone knows that game shows and reality TV aren't as action packed as they're edited to seem, but some shows have different interesting quirks and things the average TV viewer wouldn't notice. Other than getting to talk to famous hosts and all the game show blunders, it's a weird reminder that the whole thing is a business.

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Text - hockeyfn16 26.4k points · 29 days ago I was on Cash Cab. You can't just hail a cab in New York which turns out to be the Cash Cab. There is a vetting process, but you don't know you are going to be on the show so the reaction is genuine. Also, there is alot of awkward silence time while he is listening to the producer in his ear. There is a cameraman riding shotgun unseen on TV. The money he gives is prop money for TV. They mail you a check after the show airs. Ben Bailey was genuinely a

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Text - Pickitline 21.1k points · 29 days ago I was on Wheel of Fortune. You have to get there at 5 AM where you draw straws with other contestants to decide when you will film. They film the entire week of episodes in 1 day. Pat Sajak is incredibly friendly and interacted with us on every break. The wheel is HEAVY

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Text - pumpkinspicerabbit 18.4k points · 29 days ago 12 They let the other girl in the Showcase Showdown (Price is Right) rebid after the audience booed her original bid (something silly low like $10,000). When it aired, they cut her original bid and showed only her second, winning bid. I lost.

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Text - dpchemd1 14.2k points · 29 days ago I was in the audience at the price is right. You wait like 4+ hours just to get into the taping. They come by and give you a short interview to see if you are a good prospect to make it to contestant row. I was with a group of 4 and none of us made it. The studio audience is significantly smaller than it appears on tv. Drew Carey told jokes between filming. The set is tiny. The wheel is tiny. No secrets to reveal except that they must use some serious l

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Text - Epic-Hamster 10.1k points · 29 days ago I auditioned for X-Factor. You don't go to the celebrity judges first you go in front of some “off camera" judges. So every terrible and horrible singer you see on the show has already been told they are better than the many talented ones not deemed "tv worthy" which makes it a lot more disgusting to me.

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Text - gambalore 8.5k points · 29 days ago Was in the audience at a Food Network taping and Iron Chef America really is a 60-minute competition. That's not fudged. The judging on the other hand takes foreeeeever.

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Text - W2ttsy 7.3k points · 29 days ago A work colleague of mine was one of the couples in married at first sight. She had a horrible experience, needed counseling afterwards and is still receiving an "appearance fee" (read hush money) even though her season aired like 5 years ago. Her words: unReal may as well be a documentary

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Text - zee714 7.1k points · 29 days ago · edited 29 days ago They tell the audience to clap and cheer and they film that to edit it in during appropriate events. If we didn't cheer or clap loud enough, they had us retake it. The same goes for grimaces/negative reactions and shock/surprise.

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Text - electricguitar146 357 points · 29 days ago Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune both film at Sony Pictures. When I interned there, I got to go watch a Jeopardy taping on two separate occasions. During commercial breaks, Alex Trebek walks out into the audience and asks if anyone has any questions for him. He's really funny and I got to ask him a few. My friend that I brought used his one question to this absolute TV icon to ask him if he had ever seen a video called "Jeffpardy" where it's basical

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Text - JackRabbitSkimzzz 6.8k points · 29 days ago Was on a MTV game show called "fist of zen" on MTV. Basically a group of people subjected to painful and nauseating tasks for cash. We won every round but the producer asked us to purposefully "fail" one to change things up. Despite losing one round we were still paid the full prize money.

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Text - DobbyDun 6.8k points · 29 days ago My teacher was on wheel of fortune Australia and he won a life supply of wd40. It turns out with average usage a can of wd40 lasts twenty years, so a life's supply is four cans.

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Text - byfuryattheheart 6.4k points · 29 days ago My wife got a tattoo on a tattoo competition show. They gave her headphones to wear while she was being tattooed, but she wasn't allowed to actually plug them in and listen to music. Pure product placement lol Other than that it was a really good experience! Producers worked with her for several weeks leading up to and made sure she got a tattoo subject and style that she wanted.

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Text - sfn81 5.7k points · 29 days ago Producers keep an eagle eye on contestants throughout the day, even escorting you to the bathroom. This is because of the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. And because the whole week tapes in a day, you have to bring 4 changes of clothes with you. All in solid colors so the patterns don't bleed on camera. (This was the 80s, so recording technology may have improved since then)

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Text - RandomPunktSucks 3.9k points · 29 days ago I was on "Who wants to be a millionaire", and its all scripted. The filming took half a day for 30 minutes of film. When you win the intro round, you are taken out to get your make up on, and then they instruct you how to act when you celebrate. The reason the audience is so completely useless (And why you see so many press wrong on obvious answers) is because 20-30% of the audience is friends and family to the other 7 contestants who are waiting

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Text - ironwheatiez 2.8k points · 29 days ago · edited 29 days ago Not a gameshow but was in the audience for the steve Harvey show. Holy crap is he a shallow and fragile individual. We were told we could ask him questions between takes if he was in a good enough mood - which he would only be in if we reacted well during takes. We also were not allowed to ask him any questions about his teeth or mustache. He also said that his lifelong dream was always to just be on television and that's it.

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Text - Amatorious 2.2k points · 29 days ago I was part of the "paid" audience for american ninja warrior. I was actually with a vegetarian group that collected the money earned for charity, so that was cool. What wasn't cool was getting downtown at midnight, for there to be hundreds of bats flying around and a two hour delay. We were only allowed to wear certain colors, no logos, and yeah they did take the audience cheering/booing to edit in later, which was honestly a good thing because at arou

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Text - alternnate 1.5k points · 29 days ago When I was a kid I went to family game show with my uncle. The theme of the show was animal life, so it featured interviews, musical performances etc. in between the questions we had to answer. None of that was shot in the order you see on TV. We shot questions and answers all in one go. Everything else had already been shot before and they used sound effects to make you think it was sequential.

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Text - yolonebulastorm 1.1k points · 29 days ago I was on one that required like 30 second shot (don't quite remember) of the contestants scrambling around picking up the supplies they want. Turns out we didn't need nearly that long, but they had us continue to scramble and push through even though there was plenty of space and no real rush

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Text - opusx28 1.1k points · 29 days ago For my 19th birthday, we went to a Jerry Springer taping. This was about 12 years ago when it was still in Chicago. It's faker than I thought but far more entertaining than seeing the occasional episode on TV. The guests are small time actors trying to get screen time in. One was actually an eloquent British woman but her character was supposed to be a "gutter dyke". Not sure that would fly nowadays. Most of whats filmed is never used and you also get tir

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Text - JamieIsSad 1.0k points · 29 days ago Not me but my uncle's friend went on Big Brother this year and was a COMPLETELY different person. They made him the villain of the show which is completely different to him in real life. IRL he's actually a really nice footy bloke.

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Text - CamembertlyLegal 640 points · 29 days ago · edited 29 days ago Had a teacher in middle school who won full carpeting for a house on the price is right when he was in grad school. He did not own a home in grad school. He also said you could see which games were coming up in line off on the side, and literally everyone was trying to hold out winning the first game for plinko lol

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Text - SonicSceptile 567 points · 29 days ago I went to two separate recordings of the BBC Robot Wars revival a couple years back as an audience member which to my surprise was actually fairly accurate to what is seen on TV. The main things I can remember being of note are: 1. The pits and the arena are actually right next to each other with no dividers (this one is more notable since the original run made it seem like they were different rooms). It was pretty much just a warehouse outside Glasg

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