My experience at a Jeopardy taping where a family member was a contestant also included an extended break after the first round to re-read a pop music clue multiple times because neither Alex nor the booth could find an intonation that they liked for the song title "Make Me Like You" because there were two different ways to interpret "like" and either interpretation creates one of those English sentences where adding a stress to any word changes the meaning significantly.
By the last few years of Barker's run, the commercial load had increased to the point where his insistence about being live to tape led him to start badgering contestants about hurrying up and making a decision. The taping from the Drew Carey era I went to was not so much "live-to-tape" as "one take, edited for time." Some of the breaks between segments seemed significantly longer in the studio than on the air, and Drew never seemed outwardly concerned about the timing, but it's nothing like the stories that I've heard about some of the 00s prime time game shows where some of them would take several hours to shoot a single episode because there were multiple takes of everything that wasn't directly deciding the outcome. On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 28, 2018, at 12:47 AM, 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > In the experience of both myself and my wife, "Jeopardy" taped in real > time with one exception; even though everything else takes the time it > takes on the broadcast, players get as much time as they need to calculate > their Final Jeopardy wagers. In my second game, one of the other players > had a discrepancy between what he had written down and what he told the PAs > he was wagering. They have to double-check it so that someone doesn't say, > "Yes, I know I wrote down $15,000, but I actually meant to bet $15,500." > > They'll also stop tape when a contestant hits a Daily Double -- or extend > a commercial break -- if the judges are still trying to determine if a > previous response is acceptable. And the contestant interviews are > sometimes edited for time. > > That said, I'm sure game shows being taped in real-time is more due to the > efforts of the producers, rather than the host. I went to a couple of > "Price Is Right" tapings back in the Bob Barker era, and I'm positive he > would have been very happy to drag out his interactions with the > contestants. (I've only ever seen clips of his work on "Truth or > Consequences," but I've seen it said that he was better on that show than > he was on "Price Is Right.") > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
