6 episodes recorded each day starting Friday for approx 2 weeks
Thanks for the behind the scenes photos. Its not often we get to see the “other side”.
On Hot Seat - on air, it looks like the audience is in a “circle”, circling the hot seat/ Eddie Maguire.
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Assuming the crew rests on weekends, that means 30 episodes will be produced during the period.
That should be enough to make it to the end of this year.
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Wish they would replace those screens, they look ancient!
Which screens? They still look fine to me?
The 4:3 monitors used by Eddie and the contestant. The centre area of the set could look a lot more modern/slick with very little effort.
During the Gold Coast episodes, the “ask the audience” lifeline becomes “ask Eddie”.
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ask the host sounds better than ask eddie
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Eddie’s ego will go through the roof when he gets an answer correct (in this new lifeline) 
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According to The Australian yesterday, one Gold Coast episode did not record properly and had to be entirely re-shot. Oh dear. As it turns out in both the taped and blank versions, the last contestants standing left with the default $1000 prize.
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Interesting… I assume there were different questions instead of contestants having to give the same answers to the original questions and having to fake their surprise at getting them wrong again!
I assume a different contestant got the $1000 prize in each. And they both kept their prize money.
Would have been an awful situation if a big prize had gone off and the winning contestant not seeing it go to air.
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Next week will see new episodes of Hot Seat Monday - Thursday after they originally had no status or episode numbers. Not sure if they will be Queensland ones.
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It’s easy to spot the difference. If there is no studio audience, then it is made in Queensland.
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They might have cardboard cut out ones… The regular live audience doesn’t make much movement anyway, the lighting above them is also dimmed a bit.
TV Tonight is saying it’s the QLD episodes that’s airing next week.
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Even The Queensland Made episodes are’nt immuned from the Fake Applause.
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The second half of ‘Fastest Finger First’ was cut short due to the program being delayed due to Gladys Berejiklian press conference in Sydney.
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Just switched it on now… Waiting to hear the fake laughter to one of Eddie’s “jokes”.
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A COVID inspired change… contestants go back to their original seat if they pass… no more “moving up one”.
Chairs seem like they are spaced further apart than before.
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