Albert Tatlock Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 I think these late night money grabbing quiz programs are a rip off and should be dumped by ITV and Channel 5 etc. e.g. Quizmania earned ITV over £1.2million during the first two weeks of transmission on ITV1, IMHO taking advantage of insomniacs and those returning from a night out. ...and the questions! Can you work this one out: Clue - Animal with a missing vowel. C_T With the chances of getting through on these things being next to sod all - I think that many families are going to have problems with the amount of calls made to these programs (despite ITV saying warnings are given every twenty calls etc.). The same goes for all of these other rip off phone competitions - one yesterday morning on the cookery program 'Can you be arsed cooking' or whatever - asking 'what is the capital of Ireland, is it A - London B - Dublin or C - Paris. If I can't sleep I rather a watch and old film or a re-run of The Sweeney etc. not watch people making idiots of themselves and getting into debt. IMHO this isn't entertaining to watch and doesn't represent responsible broadcasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ade Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 I started watching iBuy TV a few months ago when I realised there was free web entry. The phone charge was 70p per call whether you got through or not, so I tried the internet. Kept about 7 screens open at a time, and kept pasting my details on to the required fields. They used to HAVE to give their money away by the end of transmission each evening, so at 1.58am one night after watching it for about 3 nights on the trot, I got through (which isn't that difficult, expect about 10 callbacks within the space of an hour.) The question was insulting to the most dumb of viewers, something like guess the missing letter, M U S - C, I won, and pocketed £1700. So in order to beat them at their own game (financially anyway), give the internet a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 You could even macro it so you don't have to sit at the screen to do it. http://www.americansys.com/ezmacros.htm That's the macro program I run whenever I have some really tedious repetitive task to do. I didn't think they ever picked web based entries. Could be worth setting it up to hit a few of them in one go too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ade Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Looks good, didn't even know something like that existed. Will maybe give it a go later. Cheers Ans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 They replaced M&M's on freeview with some rubbish ITV play channel, I'm surprised by the amount of people who actually ring up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted October 25, 2006 Author Share Posted October 25, 2006 Glad to see these damn quiz shows are at last coming under scruitiny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 ITVPlay I keep seeing that in my TV paper and expecting to see a play, like Play For Today or something. Plays were very popular on TV in the 1970s and early 1980s but have been dropped because they are too expensive to produce. I much preferred the old meaning of the word 'Play'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deejay Denzel Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 I watched one the other night just to see if the girl would run out of things to say, in that period she told us to dial now whether our phone was wired, mobile, cordless, had a neon light in it, was an old fashioned phoen, whether it was (then she mentioned every color under the sun), then went through various button shapes and colours, then it didn't matter where we were watching which could include evry location under the sun. Typical woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardone Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 I played one of these for 2 nights last year. When I got through to the studio, eventually, had a message on the phone saying I was through. Then when she came to ask me the question, I got cut off. You will see about 10% of people apparently not there. Once when she had 10 guaranteed conections in about 10 minutes, 4 of them were not at the end of the phone. She blames us for hanging up but we are not all that stupid. the system cuts us off, even when you think you have finally got to the studio. Never ever waste your time watching this expensive trash. It is a ripoff. To the person who won via the internet, well done, now go and get a life with the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Just to update this: TIMES, TODAY Call-in quiz television shows border on the fraudulent and should be reclassified as gambling, MPs have concluded. The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee condemned the “unscrupulous practices” of some of the quiz shows, which have been criticised for misleading viewers. Up to a million people a night watch shows in which presenters invite viewers to call a premium-rate number and answer a simple question for rewards of up to £100,000. The revenue raised from the calls is considerable, with ITV set to make £20 million in profit this year from its quiz show division, ITV Play. The committee was told of allegations of shabby practices by producers and broadcasters, including suggestions that call handling procedures had, in the past, been manipulated to deny callers a chance to answer. In one episode of The Mint, an ITV1 show, 400,000 callers phoned over four hours, but only one in 400 had a chance of getting through The committee report, issued today, is expected to conclude that “any practice of misleading viewers about call volumes or of blocking calls would be more than unfair: it would be fraudulent and should be punished under criminal law. It would also be a disgrace to the Call TV quiz industry.” It says: “We believe that Call TV quiz shows generally look and feel like gambling, whether or not they will fall within the definition of gambling under the Gambling Act 2005.” The committee will urge the Government to examine this as a matter of urgency. If quizzes are reclassified as lotteries, regulators could insist on at least 20 per cent of sales going to good causes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Ha haaaa, I like the macro idea Mr Ans, thank you. I was 'testing' the ITV Play internet entry, I'm not too dedicated to it but I think I tried about 50-100 times during one program and my entry was not picked - hence the whole thing is a complete fix and not worth anymore of my time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 Just to update this: TIMES, TODAY Call-in quiz television shows border on the fraudulent and should be reclassified as gambling, MPs have concluded. The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee condemned the “unscrupulous practices” of some of the quiz shows, which have been criticised for misleading viewers. Up to a million people a night watch shows in which presenters invite viewers to call a premium-rate number and answer a simple question for rewards of up to £100,000. The revenue raised from the calls is considerable, with ITV set to make £20 million in profit this year from its quiz show division, ITV Play. The committee was told of allegations of shabby practices by producers and broadcasters, including suggestions that call handling procedures had, in the past, been manipulated to deny callers a chance to answer. In one episode of The Mint, an ITV1 show, 400,000 callers phoned over four hours, but only one in 400 had a chance of getting through The committee report, issued today, is expected to conclude that “any practice of misleading viewers about call volumes or of blocking calls would be more than unfair: it would be fraudulent and should be punished under criminal law. It would also be a disgrace to the Call TV quiz industry.” It says: “We believe that Call TV quiz shows generally look and feel like gambling, whether or not they will fall within the definition of gambling under the Gambling Act 2005.” The committee will urge the Government to examine this as a matter of urgency. If quizzes are reclassified as lotteries, regulators could insist on at least 20 per cent of sales going to good causes. Just get them off terrestrial television and put them on other specialist channels with codes. If I want to gamble I know where to go, if I don't want to gamble I don't want this crap thrown in my face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 TV's Dirty Secrets. I hope there will soon be some prosecutions over this. The deeper they dig the more fraud they seem to be finding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted September 25, 2007 Author Share Posted September 25, 2007 Can someone please help me to win a shopping trip off GMTV (Gormless Moron TV). I'm stuck on which river flows through London - is it the Tyne, Severn or Thames? I think it'll be a pound well spent. If you want to enter - the number is nought, nought, double nought, f**k all, nowt - coincidentally about the same chance you have of winning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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