Its an interesting proposition as to how they keep everyone shtum until after the programme starts. I think people would have noticed Helene coming back to work in GL, and they cant put ALL her colleagues under a confidentiality clause.

So presumably they have to pay them ALL until the programme goes out, at which point they can be released, one by one, "back into the community."

Siralun is certainly not going to want to employ 16 people 14 of whom he has already fired.

Perhaps they send them all off to some remote Scottish / Caribbean island for those 4/5 months.

Compare and contrast!!

I think what happens is they film the first 11 episodes over about 2-3 weeks and then send all those ones off. Then the ones in the final, stay and work for SA for the next 2 months and then they only film the result a day or so before it goes to air.

No - the timing is off. The DO film back-to-back, and it is VERy intense, but the main filming has been confirmed as taking just over 8 weeks. Probably with a few retakes of general shots after the tasks.

According to reports from the candidates and others, in various interviews, etc. the last group task was completed about November. The Wedding show was filmed in mid-October.

http://www.nationalweddingshow.co.uk/

For conventional film making you get about 3 mins of film shot a working day. For TV this goes up to about 6-10 mins. Soaps use a different structure so you cant compare. Also it is NOT necessarily shot in pure linear time.

It is interesting to look at the state of daylight and the time when the phone goes in the morning.

So that's the big American corporationHelene works for.

Never heard of it

Check out

http://www.ge.com/uk/

It's not 'GL', it's 'GE' = General Electric (US) which is a very large corporation.

OK thanks guys!

The GE logo seems quite familiar.

It's just that I hadn't heard of any of the companies that came up when I searched GL in Google.

Makes sence now. Thanks

My fault - GL was a freudian slip. It stands for Germanischer Lloyd, a large german ship survey and standards organisation very well known to me through work.