Monday 5 November 2007

Nothing But The GREAT BIG HORRIBLE LIES, More Like

Well, that might well be exaggerating a tadge (or a lot), but it seems a few of the contestants from Nothing But The Truth aren't too pleased with Ruggie Media's handling of the show. Your super soaraway BrokenTV can reveal that the following allegations have been made:

  • Despite specially filmed inserts being shown of contestants answering their questions backstage, all the polygraph Q&A sessions were made at Ruggie Media's HQ during applicants' original interviews, around a week before filming.

  • The more awkward questions were brought forward for contestants who weren't performing quite as entertainingly as the producers hoped, in order to get them off stage slightly more quickly.

  • Shots of contestants making their walk of shame after losing were retaken a number of times. Clearly it makes for a less enjoyable viewing experience if people who'd just lost in a game show don't walk off the stage in just the right manner.

Nothing quite as explosive as the whole ITV Play scandal, or indeed the story about Phillip Schofield murdering all those prostitutes that hasn't hit the papers yet*, but quite interesting nonetheless.

(*Because we just made it up, clearly. We can't stress that enough.)

A full account of one contestants experience with the show is here, and a forum thread featuring (at the time of clicking 'publish post') comments from two of the programme's participants lives here.

And just to reiterate: Phillip Schofield has never murdered anyone. Not as far as we know.
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Anonymous said...

Veeeeery interesting. I was meant to be going to see an episode of this being filmed, but I don't think I'll bother now.

Although the "filming the walk of shame twice" thing is pretty standard practice, certainly I had to do it twice when I was Weakest Link seven years ago. And the eps I've seen filmed do it also.

Mark X said...

Yeah, I was kind of struggling for a third bullet point there, but plumped for the 'walk of shame' thing because it still strikes me as rather odd. Is there an instruction of "Look more glum as you walk off!", or is it just for pickups? I can't imagine any viewers being remotely bothered how someone walks off the stage.

Anonymous said...

Well, they want to get it from two different angles is what I was told at the time.

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