Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

[retrocop]

I watched,with my wife tonight, the ongoing old episodes of' Who wants to be a Millionaire 'on the Sony Channel at 2100.
We reckon , judging by the questions,that these episodes were first shown about 2003.
Tonight we saw Chris Tarrant wearing a BL Poppy. Quite appropriate as the Poppy Campaign started this year about 4-5 days ago. We noticed that all the fastest finger on the button contestants also sported Poppys yet not one member of the audience of a few hundred had one.
It became more curious when both Tarrant and competitor had poppys at £16,000 question and suddenly they disappeared when the next question was asked. There wasn't even a commercial break when this anomaly occurred. It would appear that these episodes are not broadcasted live but very much pre-recorded. Perhaps the Continuity Editor should be given a few words. :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Continuity probably was spoken to all that time ago, viewers are very hot on these matters,

[retrocop]

It still seems odd that all the fastest finger potentials are kitted out with their poppys but no audience member wears one.

[Denton]

Watched on You Tube how “The Chase”is done,a real eye opener.

[sanmac]

A prime example of a director who paid scrupulous attention to continuity in a film was Fred Zinnermann in his direction of the movie "High Noon". The length of the movie was 1hr and 25mins and the climax was at...well, noon. In every take, the clocks and pocket-watches shown in the scenes were in sync with the time approaching noon hour.

[THECORBYLOON]

I didn't see this one but some of the old ones on Freeview appear to be edited versions of the originals. It may have happened in this version and when the £32,000 question was asked, it was after Remembrance Sunday so the poppy was not needed.

[Georgiesmum]

Really Denton? What was the surprise about The Chase? Please tell. x

[Denton]

The Chase sometimes takes over 3 hours because of outtakes to make 1 show,as I said it’s all on You Tube,along with Bradley Walsh’s hilarious moments.

[Canary42]

/// It still seems odd that all the fastest finger potentials are kitted out with their poppys but no audience member wears one.///

Not at all, the programme budget only stretches to supplying them for the FFFs :-D

[Cloverjo]

//It would appear that these episodes are not broadcasted live but very much pre-recorded//

In the early days they tried to make it look as if it were broadcast live by Chris Tarrant using his thumb to cover up the date on the cheque, and by saying to Phone a Friends that he knew they “can’t see the tv right now”.
These repeats on channels such Challenge are re-edited.

As an aside, is there some kind of rule that says every person appearing on tv has to wear a poppy at this time year?

[ummmm]

It's not a legal requirement yet, Jo.

[hereIam]

I love watching the old re-runs of Millionaire when I can and I often see things wrong with continuity, for example the person answering the questions frequently has a change of clothes part way through and I've often wondered why Chris Tarrant keeps his thumb deliberately over the date ! I far prefer these shows to the new ones.

[10ClarionSt]

It was never a live show anyway. As mentioned earlier, they tried to make it seem like it was live. It was noticeable with WWTBAM, that early into the first series, they stopped putting money in that pedastal in the middle of the set. There are plenty of wrong things in the broadcasts that can be seen.

[Bazile]

Speaking of continuity .

I work for a large national company .

We had a a crew making a film about certain aspects of the work we do .

It included focusing on an employee who wore brightly coloured turbans .

In one scene he is wearing a coloured turban - he gets up from his desk - goes out the door.

He is next shown coming out of the door wearing a different coloured turban