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Louisa's out now I am, night
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Thanks and bye everyone.
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Louisa's out now I am, night
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Two questions:
1) Is there going to be any live events at all? It's pointless just having talking live. Weren't the jump offs live before? 2) Why do they show the competitors being told who they are racing against after we've already been told. It totally ruins the tension. |
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Adlington was a bit of a cry baby
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I thought part of it's success was down to it being live every night. The viewers might trail off this new way.
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Two questions:
1) Is there going to be any live events at all? It's pointless just having talking live. Weren't the jump offs live before? 2) Why do they show the competitors being told who they are racing against after we've already been told. It totally ruins the tension. |
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I thought part of it's success was down to it being live every night. The viewers might trail off this new way.
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Two questions:
1) Is there going to be any live events at all? It's pointless just having talking live. Weren't the jump offs live before? 2) Why do they show the competitors being told who they are racing against after we've already been told. It totally ruins the tension. If this is now a weekly show I don't think its ratings will fare well. I think for this show daily is better as a momentum can build and it feels more immediate to the viewer. Make it weekly and it will kill it I think. |
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The jump off was supposed to be live but the wind meant they couldn't do it. The events are pre recorded and always have been.
One more question! The person that came last still achieved a jump over 7m, which is the height of a 2 storey home. But she appeared to just flop of the end of the jump. Where are they measuring from, and why! |
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Really bad idea making this weekly, it worked perfectly as nightly viewing for a week, people will be fed up and forgotten about this long before six weeks are up!!
So these celebs are now getting a six week jolly up in Austria?! Or are they going to film it all in a couple of weeks and just play it out over six? |
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Really bad idea making this weekly, it worked perfectly as nightly viewing for a week, people will be fed up and forgotten about this long before six weeks are up!!
So these celebs are now getting a six week jolly up in Austria?! Or are they going to film it all in a couple of weeks and just play it out over six? agree everything you posted. I actually thought it was an error when they reported it would now be a weekly show. the big Question will some of those suits cope with 6 weeks?? ![]() they looked on the verge of bursting tonight
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According to a story posted by the Radio Times it's only the skeleton that had to be filmed elsewhere beforehand and most of the other events this series will be done live: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-...e-on-channel-4
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Thanks. I think the show will be better with live jump offs.
One more question! The person that came last still achieved a jump over 7m, which is the height of a 2 storey home. But she appeared to just flop of the end of the jump. Where are they measuring from, and why! It was odd that for an hour and a half live show, there was no actual live events. But they did explain why they couldn't do the jump off live. So what would have happened if the jump off had been live and Rebecca Adlington had done in her shoulder on it, as she did in the first jump? She looked in a pretty bad way after it, and it would have been live telly. Would they just have carried on with the show? Clearly there is a risk of a serious injury on this show. I don't know if that sort of thing has happened in previous series, I never watched it. I am only watching this because Sarah Harding's in it. |
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I wondered about that as well. They must take the height measurement from the bottom of the take off ramp. So even if you just "flop off" you'll still get quite a high score. Perhaps this is to make a poor jump look better than it really was. The difference between say, 9m and 7m looks less than the difference between 3m and 1m.
It was odd that for an hour and a half live show, there was no actual live events. But they did explain why they couldn't do the jump off live. So what would have happened if the jump off had been live and Rebecca Adlington had done in her shoulder on it, as she did in the first jump? She looked in a pretty bad way after it, and it would have been live telly. Would they just have carried on with the show? Clearly there is a risk of a serious injury on this show. I don't know if that sort of thing has happened in previous series, I never watched it. I am only watching this because Sarah Harding's in it. |
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They said she was on the landing area for 40 minutes before being taken to hospital, so a live event wouldn't have worked. I've no idea what they would have done.
They measure the jump from the bottom of the ski, that is why they need to lift their knees to get a higher score. It is height not length that is measured if it is like last year. |
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Anyone else think that Beth could seriously take up Skeleton if she wanted to and actually do quite well with the correct training.
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What happened to the jump they had last year, it didnt have an air bag last time
One is the air jump that they introduced last year (and the one that they did last night) and one is the ski jump. Ski jump is distance, air jump is height. |
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It did? They have two different ways of being eliminated.
One is the air jump that they introduced last year (and the one that they did last night) and one is the ski jump. Ski jump is distance, air jump is height. |
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The "I'm probably best known for..." bits were quite funny. I think in some cases "only known for, and that was a while ago" would have been closer to the truth.
There seems to come a point in some celebrities' careers when they become better known for appearing on this sort of show than whatever it was that got them known in the first place. |
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The "I'm probably best known for..." bits were quite funny. I think in some cases "only known for, and that was a while ago" would have been closer to the truth.
There seems to come a point in some celebrities' careers when they become better known for appearing on this sort of show than whatever it was that got them known in the first place. |
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As for all the TOWIE/ Chelsea / Geordie Shore people that seem to turn up on these shows regularly, I never watch any of them. There is some debate about whether these shows are reality shows or not. The Wikipedia description is "scripted reality".
I was amazed to learn when I looked at the Wikipedia entry that there have been sixteen series of TOWIE. No wonder there's so many of the people that have been in it turn up on other shows. When I went to see Cheryl Cole at the Newcastle Arena on her solo tour in 2012, I was quite near the front and I could see in the front row there was a blonde girl getting a lot of attention from the crowd, people kept going up to her and getting their picture taken with her. But I'd no idea who she was. I asked the girl sitting next to me. "That's her out of Geordie Shore." Fame indeed, |
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Cut to Davina, carried on and told the viewers they would let us know when they know.
They measure the jump from the bottom of the ski, that is why they need to lift their knees to get a higher score. It is height not length that is measured if it is like last year. |
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Anyone else think that Beth could seriously take up Skeleton if she wanted to and actually do quite well with the correct training.
There are previous examples of top athletes who have changed sports and done well at another, but they tend to be the more obscure sports. I mean you're not going to get somebody retiring from gymnastics and then becoming a top class tennis player. It just couldn't happen. These days if you haven't picked up a racket and taken the game up seriously by the time you're about eight years old you've no chance of making it, the standard's that high. |
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Anyone else think that Beth could seriously take up Skeleton if she wanted to and actually do quite well with the correct training.
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