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!

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

Ай бұрын

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.

@adammills9063

Ай бұрын

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

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

Ай бұрын

Title: "Close Work"

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.

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

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

Ай бұрын

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

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

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

@lewilewis3944

Ай бұрын

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

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

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.

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

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

@richardbetts816

Ай бұрын

How about daily?

Fabulous to find this

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.

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

@paleochora

Ай бұрын

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

Great show, loved the questions.

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

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.

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.

Love these shows

Love the podcast!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I hadn't considered taking 3 sets of clothes to film pointless until today. I would have thought you could shoot 2 episodes a day, maybe 3 at a push.

@thomasdalton1508

Ай бұрын

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.

@simoncarswell3515

Ай бұрын

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.

@FarmerJAB

11 күн бұрын

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

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.

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..

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.

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…

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

@simoncarswell3515

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

@@simoncarswell3515 Cheers

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

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

@@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

Ай бұрын

@@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.

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.

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.

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

Ай бұрын

It would even more mortifying if nobody noticed.

@abzulooks6012

Ай бұрын

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

@simoncarswell3515

Ай бұрын

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

@chaoticneutral6288

Ай бұрын

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

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

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

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

@Suspended4thYT

Ай бұрын

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

@simoncarswell3515

Ай бұрын

@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

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.

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