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

[@ac9110]

I have to say I wasn't keen on Richard but this has changed my ship full circle. Excellent show this.

[@RachelMay1989]

If Marina doesn't write the film of the boy who was pen pals with a former SAS operative who then gets kidnapped and the aforementioned operative has to come out of retirement and save him (a la Taken/Extraction and all that) then she is willingly leaving money on the table.

[@cadkoger]

Title: "Close Work"

[@heatherrobertson6110]

Loved the 'fashion choice' question (and answer). When I was a child there was a Saturday teatime show called We Want to Sing which was basically school kids in the audience singing songs (simpler times!). My school was in the audience on one of these shows (hosted in this case by Bernard Cribbins (RIP) who was absolutely lovely to us). Of course, every proud Mum wanted to be able to pick their kid out of the crowd, so every single one of us was dressed in mini-checks or stripes or the colour red (which strobed horribly back in the '70s). Honestly, a camera pan over the audience was like having a psychedelic experience. I think a modern wardrobe supervisor would have a fit.

[@tjchill8634]

The best pull back shot I’ve seen is the one where Saddam Hussain’s statue was pulled down. Western news portrayed it like the whole area and the whole country were celebrating the iconic moment when eventually the pull back shot was shown it was few people pulling down the statue with a handful of puzzled passers by looking oddly at the people pulling down the statue. Love this podcast! Keep revealing the smoke and mirrors! It’s great ❤

[@philipwhiuk]

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.

[@Bengal9063]

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

[@kafrabuchai5771]

The best pull back was us dragging it down lol.

[@Adam-lf9vs]

Every time I watch these, I think that you two are so good at letting eachother speak- instead of interrupting eachother. It's amazing how often it happens in most podcasts!

[@TheGezzagirl55]

I’m loving this series. Thanks to you both for being so friendly, funny and fantastic to listen to.

[@themattitude]

Everything Alan Carr touches turns to gold. Everything since Justin Lee Collins.

[@MitchthePunk2113]

Bad times...

[@themattitude]

@@MitchthePunk2113 Hahahaha!

[@jamesmonks]

i’ve worked in TV for 15 years and never put together that all TV post goes to Darby. now all I want to know about is the TV mega structure in Derby. I am imagining some blank Orwellian concrete silo with a single letterbox on the outside

[@lewilewis3944]

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

[@RobDW24]

I love this podcast so much, always informative and funny. Thank you everybody who works on it.

[@GettingintoTV_ThePodcast]

Loving this series, by far one of the best podcasts around at the minute. It often feels like a podcast purely made for me with all the questions being ones I want answering.

[@neilold7291]

Is morning tv deliberately bad in order to encourage people to find a job?

[@jackabalas]

I’m amazed this channel hasn’t got more subscribers

[@lewilewis3944]

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

[@anthonykempton1414]

Becoming my favourite pod cast - Uncanny still very strong though. These 2 people are beautifully intelligent and have respect for each other.

[@monishbiswas1966]

I think during Prince Philips death they suspended BB1 and BBC2 programming, for a news programme which was full of people clearly running out of things to discuss. I objected to them suspending BB2 - if people wanted to they could have tuned into BBC1, and they could have just suspended any 'inappropriate' programmes on a case by case bases.

[@rebootweb]

The fashion question is something I have debated for years. I noticed that more and more people were wearing more and more sports wear (despite doing no sports) out, even to restaurants. Next time you are out look how many people are wearing trainers no matter what other clothes they are wearing.

[@TheMissendenFlyer]

Love these - how can this only have 23K subscribers?

[@paleochora]

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

[@BlueInk912]

Climbing. 15 july 34300. Share, like.. It's soo worth it.

[@ChrissyJack]

52k now

[@TravelingBibliophile]

I remember one of the episodes of Trading Spaces (changing rooms US) where the designer decided it would be a good idea to glue hay on the walls. You could see the owner’s horror, there was another episode where the wife said “I have to leave the room” and you could hear her crying. I think they also had to sign a release that they wouldn’t sue and the produce didn’t have to put it back.

[@tsult81]

Can we request a third weekly episode from you two... your media recommendations for the week... tv, movie, radio, books

[@richardbetts816]

How about daily?

[@kevingolden5675]

These are great to listen to you learn loads. Very funny too.

[@keithyork8226]

I worked for BBC News for over twenty years. There are some great stories around royal death rehearsals!

[@TheSuzberry]

Oooh. Would love to hear them.

[@Bushdoctorbeats]

Traveling after Race Across The World-contestants, filmindustrie B-roll. Sounds like a great job…

[@LondonEE16]

Loved when Marina used the word "recherche."

[@Talamino]

There is some great pullback shots in wrestling. To make the wrestlers look intimidating and big guys an interviewer would be doing a wide stance to make themsleves shorter and wrestler taller

[@Achtung73]

Regarding significant deaths I don't see why all programs on all BBC chanels are suspended. I would have thought that they could devote BBC1 to this major news item, shift BBC1 programming to BBC2 and BBC2 to BBC3. Ok, some programing would fall off the end but it seems a fair asumption that it is likely to have the lowest demand.

[@jennyroberts2347]

Great show, loved the questions.

[@theslimbin]

This is the best podcast I’ve learned so much about my industry

[@adamsbja]

As far as the Race Around the World crew, I remember seeing one Korean show (I think it was Running Man?) where every person had a camera operator assigned to them and what was interesting was they were actually treated as part of the ordeal. If someone's running for a bus and their camera operator needs to catch their breath so they pause and make sure the guy's ok? That's going in. Playing some hide and seek event? Camera has to hide as well, or grab a hat off one of the generic camera operators in the set and hope the seeker doesn't recognize them. It's a neat dynamic when it works.

[@muscies]

Imagine being in a car park and you overheard a film crew saying "The Queen has just died" when she was still around. You'd think the Matrix was malfunctioning.

[@TheDigitalLearningConsultant]

Love the podcast!

[@qwertyTRiG]

I'd have good clothes for a TV quiz show, because I was a Deaf Studies student, and they had similar rules about avoiding patterned clothing.

[@stevencgr]

actors are much more looked after in sex scenes than they used to be. I heard of an incident recently on a production that they had to delete footage, because at the end of the shot, the camera man filmed something they shouldn't have as they put the camera down to rest between a set up, the whole camera card had to be deleted and destroyed. thankfully cards get filled very very very quickly, so they hadn't lost a huge amount of work because of this guys carelessness, but they do everything to make sure that nothing is saved without the actors permission.

[@johntilsley9111]

Advice for dressing for quiz shows. A Saturday night meal in, say Rochdale or Rotherham is very much different to a Saturday night meal at The Ritz. Be more specific!

[@markbarrett8180]

Fabulous to find this

[@xavierwright]

I was wondering who Carl Parx was, glad Richard asked.

[@Gardenbirdy]

Don't know if this is the best place for this question but can someone tell me why the BBC constantly move The Repair Shop, when it is one of their best programmes. It is so frustrating..

[@michaelpearson915]

One question for Allan Carr, "Justin Lee Collins? Any chance he can be rehabilitated back into media?" (now going to do a Google search on whether he's got something on the go already)

[@TonyP_Yes-its-Me]

On intimate scenes, I often wonder if men have what I'll politely call a "natural reaction" to a near naked actress. It's a biological reflex. You can't really control it. In normal life, it unexpectedly happens all the time. If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. On a movie set, in front of everyone, it would be mortifying.

[@85NickT]

It would even more mortifying if nobody noticed.

[@abzulooks6012]

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

[@simoncarswell3515]

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.

[@rkipl]

Congratulate on your channel. I love your podcast. You will get millions of subscribers soon.

[@J1mmyMack]

Do cameramen following people doing adventures not get tired carrying their cameras?

[@philipellis7039]

When I was a child my uncle was a contestant on Sale of the Century and I have a strong memory of him in his brown suit. Standards have slipped…

[@jennysobey9890]

WOW, WOW, WOW, so much to love about this episode! Alan Carr interview insert! Behind the scenes at Pointless costumes and How to have a Cool Penpal... Mid blown!! Please send me postal address for show so I can get my quill out 🖋😃❣XX

[@andyrose724]

Love these shows

[@lesleyallerby1295]

Endless stories from old Hollywood of starlets doing kissing scenes with stars like Clark Gable and not being to complain about his bad breath (dirty false teeth) or his tongue down her throat. Taken this long to get intimacy coordinators rather than the director forgetting he's working with human beings.

[@lewilewis3944]

I'd like to know about the Hunted camera crews. Where do they stay at night? Or is it a 24/7 affair? Do they grass up the players? Would it forfeit the challenge if players ditched the camera crew? Can the Hunters cheat by calling a crew just to ping their location?

[@simoncarswell3515]

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.

[@lewilewis3944]

@@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.

[@simoncarswell3515]

@@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.

[@charleswindsor1184]

But Richard, you've often worn a white shirt on Pointless

[@simoncarswell3515]

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.

[@charleswindsor1184]

@@simoncarswell3515 Cheers

[@davidburne9477]

The best movie covering the issue of nudity riders was State and Main. Hilarious how they address Sarah Jessica Parker’s character’s refusal to do the nude scene she’s contracted for.

[@TheSuzberry]

Are intimacy coordinators primarily women?

[@redmed10]

Why not just go back to trains going into tunnels? You know what I'm talking about.

[@jezlawrence720]

Do you HAVE to say "now x" when you mention twitter? Literally noone is going along with musks brain fart, and you dont need to either

[@sie4431]

How does race around the world avoid legal claims from The Amazing Race among others?

[@thomasdalton1508]

Nudity riders are hardly a new thing. They are discussed in Notting Hill, so they definitely predate that!

[@MrEwragg]

That the royal family are category 1 and David Attenborough isn’t is an atrocity

[@highdownmartin]

Not going to affect me, but I can relax in the fact that I don’t have anything bright shiny white, nor deep black. And NOTHING with logos! ( unless Nike want to pay me to wear it). Dusty cotton jeans and work shirts. Everyday, all day.

[@redmed10]

You cant wear anything white Marina. Got it?

[@DrCalamityJan]

Please slow down Marina. It's so difficult to keep up with your train of thought sometimes.

[@chaoticneutral6288]

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

[@David-j9h9g]

i will never forgive u Marina for saying the 3 world problem was shit..snob

[@Fludded]

Really struggling relating to the middle-classness of these podcasts. TV people are living in another world… dress as if you were going to dinner on a Saturday night??? Who does that???

[@thomasdalton1508]

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.

[@simoncarswell3515]

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

[@Suspended4thYT]

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

[@simoncarswell3515]

@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

[@SayWhatNow666]

How’s her ‘best friend’ Piers Morgan doing? I knew I distrusted her takes and then I looked her up and was not surprised by what I found.

[@Qaust1]

All good apart from away days can’t stand him absolute nob ! X