O/T Disgraceful television (a long rant)

[booder]

i gotta get that number,
i got three answers,
one of thems gotta be right, right?

 

[matt674]

the problem is Matt, is that these shows pick on the poor and desperate

Apologies but in the days when i was poor and desperate - this still would have been the last solution i would have come up with to aleviate my problems.

The show doesnt pick on the poor and desperate, it picks on those who are too gullable to realize they are being ripped off.

And whilst yes programs like this should be instantly banned from tv and their creators imprisoned for fraud i dont have much sympathy for those who are gullable enough to think that television shows like this are the answer to their financial problems.

[CelticGeezeer]

My old man always said "Fools and their money are easy parted."

[divingduck]

 The first time I saw this crap they had a 'blankety blank' type quiz. There was 1 answer left and the puzzle was Hair ____ . My guess of 'retw*t' was way off the mark as the true answer turned out to be the more obvious 'pencil'. Still intrigued by what a hair pencil is used for tho...can anyone shed some light?

[boldie]

The first time I saw this crap they had a 'blankety blank' type quiz. There was 1 answer left and the puzzle was Hair ____ . My guess of 'retw*t' was way off the mark as the true answer turned out to be the more obvious 'pencil'. Still intrigued by what a hair pencil is used for tho...can anyone shed some light?

is that the same thing as a "tyre---thingemiejig"?

[AndrewT]

'Jobs beginning with A'

The obvious top answer was Alchemist. Have a guess what the £150 answer is. Go on, guess. Guess till the end of time then have an extra half hour. You'll never get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7-JgLH6oE

Clip is worth watching for the dozy cow who phoned up the wrong quiz show, channel-hopping dimwit that she is.

[mikkyT]

How do I get a job as an a**** *****!? And what the hell is one...

[Zebediah]

'Jobs beginning with A'

The obvious top answer was Alchemist. Have a guess what the £150 answer is. Go on, guess. Guess till the end of time then have an extra half hour. You'll never get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7-JgLH6oE

Clip is worth watching for the dozy cow who phoned up the wrong quiz show, channel-hopping dimwit that she is.

I guessed Acrobat, hilarious answer though. It is genuine mind, I googled it.

[AndrewT]

Oh dear, I have now been sucked into watching YouTube clips of these programmes. The fact that a) they're live, b) there's only one presenter at a time and c) the programmes are content-free means that there is a real knack to presenting these things. There's probably a lot of cross-over with local radio phone-ins, hence presenters like this guy, who was totally flummoxed by this caller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJotjN2imQ

He could have at least said he was stumped.

[LukieD]

They're an absolute joke. No idea how they get away with it. Saw it once with a number of sterling notes on the screen and the question was how many £s or something..literally every combination was covered..visible pound signs, number of notes, total value etc etc Went away and turned the TV on an hour and a half later and they were still guessing.

[AndrewT]

They're even infecting Australia - but these guys have got their number.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzVTr2YHy9c

[suzanne]

A friend of my sisters found a mobile phone a couple of months ago which was a contract phone with an unlimited amount of credit. Rather than do the honest thing and try to find out who it belonged to, she rang up these shows constantly for a week making THOUSANDS of calls.

About 1 in 15/20 actually got through to the studio and she actually got some of them right.

The cost of the calls obviously was far higher than the money she won but as it wasnt her phone she was onto a winner or so she thought.

Shame she wasnt bright enough to realise it would be fairly easy to track her down as the studio had her name and address 

[snoopy1239]

Thses programmes are basically scams, they create a subjective puzzle which viewers pay £1 a punt (Even ones who don't get through) to attempt to decipher.

Most of the viewers haven't been watching the show, so the obvious answer gets repeated over and over and over and over again. (Trust me, I was sad enough to watch it for a whole day.)

I wouldn't be surprised if they change the answer as they go along. At best, they make the answer so ubelievably innocuous that they know it will take ages for someone to guess correctly.

I'm sure they come up with somesort of justification for their answers, but when they are as cryptic as this, there are an unbelievably high amount of variations. How they can say our answer is wrong and theirs is right is beyond me.

Yep, it's a horrible programme that they doesn't just pray on gamblers, but also on those who are convinced it's as straight forward as it looks.

From what I recall, they were investigated by Watchdog. However, I'm unsure as to what came from that...

[AndrewT]

From what I recall, they were investigated by Watchdog. However, I'm unsure as to what came from that...

'We found that these shows were a potential death trap'

[gmoneyAK]

and what they dont tell you, or maybe they do in the very small print messages that pop up at the bottom the screen.

You can enter for free on the web and 50% of there contestants have to be from web entrants.