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<\/a><\/p>\nSunrise\u00a0 \/ Today overruns
According to the EPG both Sunrise and Today are due to wrap at 9am, but it never happens, running overtime to as late as 9:14. That\u2019s despite ACMA expecting accuracy in EPGs. A higher rating show, such as Sunrise or Today, spills audience numbers into the next show, which just happens to be full of advertorials. A Today spokesperson said, \u201cAs a live news and current affairs program, Today is inherently dynamic and responsive to the unfolding news cycle.\u201d Seriously? Meanwhile Sunrise\u2019s Natalie Barr suggested \u201cI think it\u2019s just a habit. \u2026.we talk too much.\u201d Yeah, nah.<\/p>\n
ACA: \u201cComing Up\u201d Pre-recorded news updates Multiple endings Hunted HQ Hunted\u2019s mismatching Drone Shots Shark Tank\u2019s lift Masked Singer microphones Farmer fake farms Secrets of SBS Live news crosses for no apparent reason<\/a><\/p>\n
This is a long-standing one. At about the 25 minute mark of A Current Affair Ally Langdon will tease a \u201cComing Up\u201d story. But after a commercial break it\u2019s only just a promo for the next night. Even Tracy Grimshaw was uncomfortable with this deception admitting if she was at home she\u2019d probably \u201cthrow something at the telly.\u201d<\/p>\n
News updates are not always Live but often recorded a few minutes in advance. Sometimes a nighttime news update has been filmed when the anchor was at the desk at 7pm. One network was once caught out when its update failed to include changes that had happened in the intervening time, explaining that the anchor went home some hours earlier. All hell broke loose in the publicity dept over that admission.<\/p>\n
Pre-recorded reality contests such as The Voice and MasterChef Australia film fake endings either because they want to avoid leaks, or add audience voting later. In most cases the first one filmed turns out to be the genuine winner, because you get a more \u201cnatural\u201d reaction then the poor bugger faking smiles by the fourth take.<\/p>\n
The team from Hunted may be locked onto working computers, but it\u2019s in a studio set, not the supposed Collins St tower seen in the show. Just like a Zumbo\u2019s Just Desserts exterior was Walka Water Works in Maitland and the studio was in Sydney.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
When contestants were on the run in Hunted, drone shots of Melbourne and Victoria were wildly exaggerated. There\u2019s nowhere in Beechworth that you can see the Mt Dandenong TV Towers with the naked eye. And looking to the city from West Footscray puts the bay on right of frame, not left as suggested. Despite the network calling them accurate viewers called bullshit on social media.<\/p>\n
Not a lift.<\/p>\n
Those headset mics on costumes for Orcas, Crash Test Dummys and Snow Foxes are just that. Costume. They ain\u2019t picking up any vocal from the celebrity inside the costume.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
Not every farm seen on Farmer Wants a Wife belongs to the single farmer in question. Production attributed those changes to travel restrictions during the worst of the pandemic. But it helps the ones they used looked a whole lot more photogenic, right?<\/p>\n
SBS often retitles international shows as a way of giving them better local awareness in the EPG. But they just love to add the word \u201cSecrets\u201d to almost anything. The Secret Life of Death, Every Family Has a Secret, The Secret Life Of Princess Margaret, Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle, Secret Life of the Cruise Ship, Secrets of McDonalds: 50 Years of the Big Mac, Secrets of the Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury\u2026 Says SBS: \u201c\u2026it\u2019s an alluring, provocative word that from our audience perspective creates this sense of \u2018What is going on here? Am I going to learn something that I don\u2019t know, is it something I can tell my friends?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
If a road crash happened during the day, there\u2019s a good chance you may see a news reporter on the scene in the 6pm bulletin in a Live cross. If only they had cameras there at the time.<\/p>\n