Q&A | TV Renovations Gone Wrong, Filming 'Race Across The World' & Intimacy Coordinators... 

There's similar stuff for 'The National Radio Quiet Zone' in the US and 'Empty Offices' in China where it's all careful framing/reporting.

The statue wasn't in Kurdish Iraq. If it was it would have been celebrated wildly.

The best pull back was us dragging it down lol.

Title: "Close Work"

Bad times...

@@MitchthePunk2113 Hahahaha!

You're dead right, however the letter box is fucking massive !

I normally Spotify it while doing housework. I wouldn't search for this but it popped up in a YT 'you might like'.

Possibly cos people are listening to the podcast not watching it. Its so good isn't it? I look forward to every episode

How about daily?

Oooh. Would love to hear them.

I think the hosts just have a wardrobe there. They were talking about the contestants. For Pointless, contestants come back for another episode if they get knocked out early, so they need two outfits for their two episodes. They then need backups in case something strobes or otherwise doesn't work on camera. So three outfits would be an absolute minimum. Richard said they are usually told to bring six.

Pointless asks contestants to bring six outfits. Potentially each pair of contestants could appear on three shows. So the six outfit requirement is to make sure that all contestants have a separate outfit for each of their episodes, plus spares in case one or two of the outfits can't be worn on TV. Pointless films between three and four episodes a day but contestants have to change between episodes - it would look odd if they were wearing the same outfit on all of their episodes.

I think he often shoot at least 4 per day, Brad Walsh said 4 daily I think

Hunted uses a very minimal crew. There will only be a single camera operator (producer/director or PD) assigned to each contestant. The contestants are also given easy to use video cameras to record themselves when they're alone or the PD isn't with them. Generally they would not stay with the contestants 24/7, and indeed in watching the show you will see moments that are entirely captured by the contestants on their own. "Can the Hunters cheat by calling a crew just to ping their location?" is an interesting question because it implies that the hunters have the technology to be able to do that. But they don't. What you need to understand about Hunted is that it's all simulated. That doesn't necessarily mean "fake". But any time the hunters appear to use powers or technology that the police would use, it's mocked up. For example, let's say a contestant uses a cash machine. The PD would set up a camera to "simulate" what a cash machine CCTV camera would see. They would then call HQ and tell them that the contestant had used a cash machine and the address of the bank. They would send HQ the "CCTV" footage of the contestant. The hunters would then say something like "we've had a hit on the debit card of [contestant X]. It was used in [town Y] at [bank Z] and we've retrieved the CCTV footage." So you can see that, although this is entirely simulated, the idea is to give the hunters the same powers that the actual police would have, but obviously without the hunters having access to the tools and technology that the police have. The PD would never just call in to HQ and say "[contestant X] is on [road Y] in [town Z]" unless there was way that the Hunters would also be able to know that. For example if the contestant was travelling in a vehicle, and the hunters had intelligence about the vehicle's registration number, and the vehicle passed an ANPR camera, then the PD would call that in to let HQ know.

@@simoncarswell3515 That's really enlightening, Simon, thanks. My main concern has been answered, yes the crew are grasses, but in a way that supports the format.

@@lewilewis3944 It's an interesting one, Hunted. On the one hand they need to be fair to the contestants because a large amount of prize money is at stake and there are rules about how TV competitions are run. But on the other hand they're making an entertainment show that should keep the viewer on the edge of their seat. Obviously they have to make some hoops for the contestants to jump through (the most well-known being that they can't stay in any one location for more than 48 hours) otherwise people would just find an anonymous campsite in the middle of nowhere and stay hidden there. They would probably win the game, but it would not exactly be nail-biting TV. So they walk a fine line between ensuring the contestants are always on the verge of capture without actually just telling the hunters where they are.

He will always be wearing a jacket over his shirt, which is fine. A white shirt without a jacket is not fine because it will tend to "bloom" on camera. (It will look overbright, almost fluorescent.) Putting a jacket over it and just seeing a few inches of shirt will not do that.

@@simoncarswell3515 Cheers

It would even more mortifying if nobody noticed.

As Christopher Atkins said about filming "Blue Lagoon": "It was difficult to keep things down."

A film or TV set is about the least sexy place you could be. You may have the most attractive woman in the world wearing next to nothing, but you've also got a bunch of people staring at you, cameras pointing at you, lights in your eyes and you're on a dreary sound stage which, apart from the set you're in, is basically a big empty warehouse. If you can get it up in those circumstances I will -shake your hand- take my hat off to you.

I tend to have the opposite problem! I find so many content creators speak too slowly for me and often have to change videos to x1.25 or x1.5 speed. Marina's quick enough that I don't need that for this podcast, but you could always try slowing down to x0.75 speed if you can't keep up with those of us who speak rather like a Gilmore lol

Richard said going out for dinner, which people certainly do. Marina then interpreted that as going to a dinner party at a friend's, which was an odd interpretation.

You have never been out for dinner on a Saturday night?

You wear jeans and t-shirt to go out for dinner on a Saturday night? Seriously?

@Fludded I think you're fundamentally missing the point of the advice to "dress as if you were going to dinner on a Saturday night". For some reason I think you've interpreted that as specifying a particular style of dress, but that's wrong. It's basically saying if YOU were to go out to a restaurant on a Saturday night, what would YOU wear? If it's jeans and t-shirt, that's fine. If it's a smart shirt and jacket, that's also fine. The point is to wear what YOU PERSONALLY would be comfortable wearing