Reality shows:  How do they keep contestants from talking about the results?
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Most contestants must sign disclosure forms whhich prohibit them from speaking to anyone about the show at the time of taping.  If contestants violate these agreements they can be held liable and sued for a breech of contract.
420410
Certain things happen when folks lie. It is hard to make eye contact so you may want to try forcing that. Most people will give more details to a lie than when they are telling the truth. \nBut can you handle the truth?
90327
ofcourse they should show real people. its called reality show right?
303870
They are taken to a hotel where the television studio foots the bill.\n\nThey keep them away from the public until the episode airs. This way they cannot leak information about the show.
864488
boxing\nall other sports post the scores, including horse-type stuff, bowling, figure skating, ballroom dancing, golf, etc etc\nnot even the contestants know the points score until it is over in boxing.\n\nyeah, i'm a girl and i don't even like sports
875142
How about pretend that the 4 women are on a talk show (one being the host) on the subject of menopause. As the questions are being asked and answered (actually educating the audience while acting) , have all the women including the host display various symptoms i.e. sweating and fanning, crankiness, crying, tiredness,etc.-you get the picture. Don't have all the women stay in the same character of symptoms though...have them keep changing. For example, you could have the host ask woman 1 what body changes she has experienced and woman 1 could yell at the host are you calling me fat?,etc. Then woman 2 could start crying asking why do we have to fight like this or something. Woman 3 could be fanning herself and ask the host does the A/C work in here, but the host has dozed off...have everyone keep changing and playing off each other. It's hard to explain what's in my head, haha hopes this makes sense!
209533
good luck with this one, i have a friend who phoned up the producers and they just laughed at her then hung up! i think the magic word is left best to our imagination
798863
You answered the question yourself. \n\nThe audience has people planted in it to produce both the statement of pride -and- the reaction. It works in a manner similar to the way a laugh track works in a situation-comedy.  These people are "shills". Other shills also begin the boo'ing because it instigates the rest of the audience to join in: it is human nature, when in a large crowd to conform, and this is a way of manipulating the crowd to behave in a way that the producers wish them to behave.\n\nThe purpose of the show's producers is as you said; to drum up ratings. The effect is entirely artificial - they are directed to do what you see them do on the show. \n\nThey are simply pandering to the lowest common denominator - These "talk-shows" are intentionally using the agent provocateur ploy and they inflame racial tensions like this regularly when the audience has been too quiet, and reasonable lately - because a quiet audience is boring to most of the viewers... and if they get bored they channel surf to watch something new or different.\n\nBefore you start to accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist you should know this is based on verbatim descriptions from staff who work on the shows.\n\nBTW: Reality TV is similarly "set-up" and artificial. Sometimes even the news is more "drama" than reality too. You should probably realize that the media has always been about providing  spectacles and circuses going back to Roman times - to keep people from rising up against the emperor and the aristocracy. We've just changed the names of those roles in recent times.
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Well, in the end the fakers have an impact on who their message reaches. They are often found out and their fakeness reflects poorly on whomever they claim to represent.  Let's be frank. Those who are able, should. But they must realize they ARE their brother's keeper. So they also have to make ammends for those who can't.  Whether or not we wish the fakers would keep quiet is irrevelant. They do what they will. Just be ready with your knowledge to defeat the ignorance they introduce. Its all that can be done.
88735
Do NOT send them anything.\nIf you truly won anything, they would not need this info.
739035
they keep in at least one act that are talentless right up to almost the end in the belief that it will throw the public off the scent of the whole thing being a complete fix.\nif the act that the producers prefer happen not to win then they are signed up anyhow. makes you wonder why they bother with months of programs if they know from day 1 who they are willing to sign to contracts
1091982
Yes it gets on my nerves. You put all that stuff in your profile so they wont ask and they still ask anywaysk, and on top of that they keep bugging about getting on cam. You say no and they keep on. People can be annoying.
1182599
Any reality show like Survivor, Big brother, the Real World, Surreal Life, etc. crams anywhere from 24 hours to a week into 22 or 44 minutes of airtime.  Editing is therefore the only thing that makes storylines come together in any semblence of reasonability.  The editors, through the producers, can make one or two comments the entire subject of a weeks show, flaunting the mayhem they cause and even ignoring reconcilliations.  Additionally, a girl who goes home with a guy from a bar every week may seem a little permiscuous in real life, but when you only see her for 20 minutes a week and 5 of those are spent hooking up with someone, she seems like an out-of-control nympho.  Producers usually do not suggest anything besides what is presented as the show's premise, and I am unaware of any instannces of scripting - since this is the basis of reality tv, I imagine it would be a very big Milli Vanilli-ish deal.  Editing, though - that's where the distortion lies.
989117
I strongly agree with you! I don't really like Reality TV either! What is the reality that they are trying to show? It's just the same as acting. So yeah, no point in wasting money, creating a reality tv programmes. After all, people like reality tv because of the drama in it. Well, might as well just watch a drama right? Pure entertainment~
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I do it quite a lot.  I don't see this as a game-show, there are no prizes - a lot of people are looking for genuine answers, but if all you're doing is trying to show off how clever you are you're going to end up misleading them, if I know an answer without doubt - then I'll still double check on the search engines just to be sure. \nIf it's a simple trivia question or a riddle I'll answer with the answer I think is right, if it's advice that's needed I'll offer it, if funny is required then I'll try and be humourous, but if it's facts that are asked for I'll do everything I can to make sure it's facts that are given - not educated guesses or unbacked certainties. \nI give a mixture of cut and pasted facts along with links in order to reassure the asker that the information has come from a reliable and informed source and not just some faceless nobody intent on showing he's the smartest guy in the room.
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Okay, you want to have things to think about.\n\nWhat if last week instead of voting off Yul  the raro people had voted off one of the two girls from Aitu? There is a rub to the immunity idol, you have to bring it with you to the tribal counsil. Think about that. If yul has it on him, only Yul can use it. Jeff alluded to that tonight. Everyone knew Yul had the idol but nobody knew if he had given it to someone to hold that night. If he ever does then he too can be voted off. Tricky isn't it? So if raro had voted off one of the girls last week, Yul could have done nothing to stop them. That is why it was stupid of Yul to show anyone the idol. It was even stupider of jonathon not to realize that yul had just told him who to get voted off that night. Had Jonathon told Raro what was up instead of trying to be slick and persuade them to vote off one of the girls without telling them why then one of the girls would be gone and Raro could be picking off Aitu one by one until yul is all that is left. Then they could have pick which one of them goes out one week while yul goes out the next week. It was a complete act of stupidity that just seemed to work out in Yul's favor last week and this week as well. Everybody knows that Yul has the golden ticket so to speak to the final three. That means only two can go with him. one of them has got to be thinking they need to get that idol out of the game now. Jonathon has got to know that he is the odd man out even though he is the perfect guy to take with you to the finals. no body will give Jonathon the money. Still the girls both know that Ozzy is likey to beat them in challenges so they have to do something to get rid of either Ozzy or Yul. I know this won't happen . It is to bold to happen, but, it has to be said that Yul having that idol is a major distraction to the other people.\n\nBack to your complaints. I thought Parvati was the more annoying of the girls. She sounded like she was cracking. In fact I think she has cracked. That whole tirade about maturity sounded like a Pee Wee Herman skit. Jonathon came out smelling like arose, especially after she made a scene about eating the cocoanut. No wonder he didn't feel like sharing the fish. I thought it wrong but i thought it an eye for an eye as well.\n\nAnd you couldn't be more right about the immunity necklace. Adam could have given it to her. He could have voluteered for exile island. He could have done all kinds of things to show he cared for her. He didn't. All he tried to do is get Yul to vote off Jonathan. Now he will probably be snuggling with Parvati until he or she gets voted off next week. Expect Ozzie to try and get him out in the competition. \n\nThe way I see it the pecking order is Adam, Parvati, Jonathon or Ozzie, and then one of the girls or Ozzie.  Yul will try and make it to the final two and win but it could all backfire. You never know. Enjoy.
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It's just how it is done.  It's partly so other people might not over hear you talking while you are getting some coffee or food or whatever.  Also, they want you to wait to discuss until after you have seen ALL of the evidence and heard everything about the case.  Once you have been presented with everything, then you can go into deliberation and discuss the case.