LSherratt

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There's so many obvious set-ups on program's these days, more noticeably on all the American kinds. Are we not meant to realise or do the producers know that we know it's a set-up and that they do it for higher "entertainment" purposes?

- Storage wars and all the other similar variants.
- Flipping Vegas
- Lizard lick towing
- Wheeler dealers
- Top gear
- Bounty hunter

....and a lot more too! So much bad TV around these days.

pimmo2000

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We know, but the people who watch those shows don't ..

kingofturds

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Horlicks. you'll be trying to tell me that American wrestling is staged next.

CharlySkunkWeed

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Probably costs. If it was reality there would need to be a camera on every person involved , then all the footage would need to be reviewed/edited to get all the good bits extracted to make a decent show from it. Easier and cheaper just staging it , just a pitty they dont use better actors.

LSherratt

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Wrestling as well??!

Lizard lick towing is probably the most staged show I've ever seen!

jameswrx

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Thing is, I quite enjoy watching it because it's so badly staged I saw one the other day where they flew in by helicopter to a car in the middle of a load of fields, the keys just happened to be in it. Then, as if by magic, the angry owner turns up while lizard lick are half turning the ignition key just engaging the starter with shouts of "it won't fire" while one 'tried the fuses'. Eventually he managed to hold the key in the start position, I mean his mate fixed the 'fuses' and it fired up. The one where his mrs was going to take part in an MMA fight was amusing. During the build up I was wondering how they were going to get out of showing her actually fighting. Just as they get in the ring the cops burst in and arrest her opponent and she wins by default.

The whole 'less is more' way of thinking has vanished in TV progs. A lot of these shows would be quite good if they didn't stage everything.

PaulC72

To be fair any program that has high quality cameras rolling on it will probably be scripted / staged in some way.

Who would send out 000's of pounds of equipment on a just in case bit of footage.

At least Catchphrase isn't staged.

dpb

People expect it nowadays

They'd be complaining if it wasn't

Carnut

I've never met anyone that through any of these programs weren't staged. There are some people that don't care and maybe fall for it a bit but if you ask them to think about it they seem to come to the right conclusion. Its just a bit of light entertainment if you don't like it then just don't watch it. There is a great range of programs these days some better than others. I quite like some of the staged ones some times they make me laugh.

ALi-B

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I think American Hot rod in the earlier day wasn't staged. Obviously some of the fooling around was for the camera, but the cars were real, made by real people in the trade, for real customers. I like shows like that.

Fred Dibnah in the early days was fascinating. Later stuff became scripted documentaries, but it often would see him wondering through his shed/workshop looking at bits he fabricated for a steam engine or something

It amazes me how many people think Edd China is a top mechanic. When many people in the industry cry when they see thats how public perceives them. In reality, he probably has a generalised working knowledge of automotive mechanics but his actual trade is a fabricator and probabaly has an advisor off screen to tell him what to say and do.

Jamz3k

I'd say 70% of real life is staged, you just may not be aware of who's staging it.

alcazar

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Right from the start, programmes like "You've been framed" featured American setups.

PaulC72

i knew you were going to say that.

neil-h

It's all the Jews

zip106

It's nothing new - wrestling in the 1970's with Big Daddy et al was staged.

If anyone watches the American crap and doesn't realise it's staged then

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Most of the US shows you mention are made my the same company, truTV, and they call it 'actuality' TV rather than reality - it's staged but in an effort to recreate actual events

So yes, avoid anything involving this company if you want non-staged US tv.

LSherratt

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I had heard of Lizard Tow Licking but the other day was the first time I actually decided to watch it and give it a go and I couldn't believe what they were doing. If anybody actually thinks that stuff is real then they are really thick!

JDM_Stig

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Probably part of the script. . .
As these are entertainment programs and not documentaries I would imagine they have a script.

Marshall-P

99% of everything in the discovery channel is staged, usually really badly Aero plane Repo ........... come on!

mrtheedge2u2

Aeroplane Repo makes me laugh..............f**k the pre-flight check-list!!! lol

It is absolute garbage

hodgy0_2

ultimately it is simply lazy programme/film making

a bit like phone hacking being lazy journalism

I suspect real life is much more compelling, - but harder, costlier and riskier to produce

so, as with so much in the modern world - go with the simplest easiest solution that gives the best ROI - and stage it

legb4rsk

Classic Car Rescue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mario & Bernie.More script writers than Morecambe & Wise only not funny.

Mario drives the newly sprayed Merc SL out of the spray booth,damaging it.

'Why did you do that?' asks Bernie
'I was bored.' replies Mario.

So realistic.

Dr Hu

yeah watched that last night - my god!! - it was soooo annoying - cue a massive staged 'argument' over nothing every five mins - "But mawioooo you didn't let me finish checking the car!" , "But Bernie we had to buy it, it was online and going up". I almost turned it off, as I don't need the massively shouty aggro in my life on a relaxing evening.... it spoilt the program totally - waaay, waaay over the top.

CharlySkunkWeed

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Another one is Sons of Guns. They literally have a license to blow stuff up for real , yet rather than actually seeing a mortar or grenade for real, they insist on going "Hollywood" and staging it with accompanying over acted reactions.

LSherratt

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So stupid.

The Trooper 1815

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Rat *******s is great!

mattvortex

Why do the producers feel the need to stage a programme like Classic car rescue???

Its as if they think were're all 8 years old and must be "entertained" like kids at a punch and judy show or some brain dead teenage girl whose vocabulary consists of only " oh my god", or "its like"!!!

Please, please producers, give us some shows for real- dont treat us like daft kids needing to be "entertained" constantly!

The Trooper 1815

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Like BGT, IASGMOOH and that other Slimon Cowell pile of ****e!