Guests on RTE chat shows always have to be told to sit down after interview - wtf?

darkman2 · 27-02-2009 11:10PM #1

OK Let's assume we are dealing with professional adults in RTE......right.....ok why in Gods name do they not tell there guests before they have an interview to sit down after the interview is over!? Seriously on the Late Late and Tubridy it's always happening. Surely it's not very hard to tell the guests to sit down after the interview before hand!? - They always get up to leave as soon as it is over....and are told to sit down. It looks ameturish and needlessly feckless. In fact most foreign guests just look lost most of the time!

I don't know tbh....I just don't know:rolleyes:

copacetic · 27-02-2009 11:12PM

they do, people aren't used to being on TV a lot of the time and the natural reaction when someone says thanks and good bye is to get up to leave. They forget and don't realise they are still in shot.

Either that or it is a massive conspiracy to annoy the keyboard warriors like us.

ronnie3585 · 27-02-2009 11:13PM

Personally, I was more perturbed by Pat talking about 'G spots' and 'jucy butts'.

darkman2 · 27-02-2009 11:15PM

copacetic wrote: »

they do, people aren't used to being on TV a lot of the time

Eh but when is the last time Johnathan Ross, for example, had to tell a guest to sit still after an interview. You rarely get it on the BBC funnily enough.

It happens after practically every interview on RTE.

copacetic · 27-02-2009 11:18PM

darkman2 wrote: »

Eh but when is the last time Johnathan Ross, for example, had to tell a guest to sit still after an interview. You rearely get it on the BBC funnily enough.

Eh, he doesn't have to as they walk them out in shot on purpose to avoid it. They don't have ad breaks to cover getting people on and off. All in all a piss poor example if you don't mind me saying.

QuadLeo · 27-02-2009 11:20PM

I think it's not as common on the BBC because they do very few live shows. All of RTE's bigger shows are live. I'd say it happens on Jonathan Ross but it's easy to cut it out or cut to another shot. Just an idea. Either that or guests on RTE are retards. I mean do they never watch TV themselves. Everybody knows to stay seated until the ad break or whatever. I'm sure the guests are told to stay put but they either forget or get nervous and stand up anyway. I don't know.

darkman2 · 27-02-2009 11:21PM

copacetic wrote: »

Eh, he doesn't have to as they walk them out in shot on purpose to avoid it. They don't have ad breaks to cover getting people on and off. All in all a piss poor example if you don't mind me saying.

Hmm I see the point.

So then that is the solution - Pat Kenny should escort them off. Don't know why they have to leave them sitting there till the ad break anyway.

copacetic · 27-02-2009 11:24PM

darkman2 wrote: »

Hmm I see the point.

So then that is the solution - Pat Kenny should escort them off. Don't know why they have to leave them sitting there till the ad break anyway.

well that is true, they could come up with a much cleaner way of doing it.

Good point by Quad though, who knows how dirty the shots on the Ross show are before they do the editing! You can always notice a couple of things that you can tell prob weren't live.

edit - like just now, they bring in Clive Owen(?)and the house band plays him in, 5 mins later the entire area where the band was is gone and replaced by U2 and all their gear!

oneweb · 01-03-2009 05:14AM

(Of the few times I've seen them) it's pretty harrowing to watch someone being interviewed by the Plank and the Twig. Put yourself in the interviewee's seat - you're not gonna want to stay a split second longer than is absolutely necessary for the purpose of you being in their company.

Guests on RTE chat shows always have to be told to sit down after interview - wtf?

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