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Watched Amanda Byram on Something for the Weekend; she is just back from Argentina where filming is done for a gameshow she hosts for BBC. Not sure of the name of the show but it is some physical challenge.
Am I mistaken in thinking my licence fee is paying to ship contestants out to South America to take part in a UK show grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
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Am I mistaken in thinking my licence fee is paying to ship contestants out to South America to take part in a UK show grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
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from the "daily telegraph":-
"Fans have speculated that the unusual location, 7,000 miles from home, is because British health and safety box tickers would have banned most of the rounds.
Sadly, the reason for the Argentinian location is more prosaic. Endemol has sold the programme to 36 countries, all of which film on this set, invariably bathed in glorious sunshine. It is cheaper to fly contestants around the world than to build 36 separate sets, crewed by 36 sets of technicians and cameramen. So when the British contestants have finished filming, waiting behind them are Turks ready to do battle."
"Fans have speculated that the unusual location, 7,000 miles from home, is because British health and safety box tickers would have banned most of the rounds.
Sadly, the reason for the Argentinian location is more prosaic. Endemol has sold the programme to 36 countries, all of which film on this set, invariably bathed in glorious sunshine. It is cheaper to fly contestants around the world than to build 36 separate sets, crewed by 36 sets of technicians and cameramen. So when the British contestants have finished filming, waiting behind them are Turks ready to do battle."
Your licence fee has also been used for the past 17 years to pay Camelot for the rights to televise the National Lottery draws and for the prize shows that surround the Saturday draw i.e providing the National Lottery with free publicity.
In an ideal world Camelot should pay the BBC or the drawn numbers appear as a 10 second news segment.
In an ideal world Camelot should pay the BBC or the drawn numbers appear as a 10 second news segment.
The format to this game show is sold around the world, and all the shows for the different countries are recorded on the same outdoor set. It is far cheaper for the BBC to fly the contestants out there than pay for the same massive set to be built and maintained and the land to be rented in this country.
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