Originally Posted by gazthomas:
“it doesnt matter who you want to win - its a fix decided on by the Production company in order to make more money and sell more advertising”
Would you care to elucidate on why you believe the Production Company fixing it for one or the other to win is able to to increase advertising revenue or otherwise increase profit?
Also, I think you'll find there are independant regulatory bodies involved when the result is based on viewers votes that involve premium rate phone calls.
Certainly there have been cases in the past where mistakes have been made on who is evicted/sacked and the tv company has had to make amends. I believe one of the overseas RTV shows (BB iirc) evicted the wrong contestant once and then had to reinstate them.
Also, there has been a case when the wrong telephone number was screened for a contestant (or was it they screened the same telephone number for all the contestants?), even though the presenter gave out the correct numbers verbally, and the programme makers were forced to scrap all the votes and hold a new eviction show.