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Day in the life of a Denyer

Not so gruelling, Grant Denyer details his schedule on a day of shooting Family Feud.

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Many readers often wonder what comprises a typical day for TV talent, and it’s a question I’ve put to personalities in the past.

This week Grant Denyer detailed his day to News Corp a recording day for Family Feud, rising at 8am, arriving at the studio by 12:30pm and wrapping at 10pm.

“We crank out five episodes between then and 10 o’clock at night. We’ll probably record a half-hour TV episode in about 40 minutes. We pretty much do it as live,” he said.

“We’ll stop after each episode and we’ll take about 10-15 minutes to turn around our contestants. Like me, the champion family needs to get changed as well into different outfits for the next episode and I’ll quickly get re-briefed on the next family that’s coming up.

“Then we’ll repeat the process.”

I’m not too sure how this compares to the ‘gruelling schedule’ he referenced when quitting Million Dollar Minute, but I suspect it’s fairly similar. Both also involve travel from NSW to Melbourne.

No question that filming five high-energy episodes back to back is draining on the best of comperes, but hospital staff and farmers would probably put up solid arguments about working hard yakka without the same remuneration as TV stars.

Denyer has also indicated he is keen to add extra projects to his schedule, so work-life balance must be in better sync now.

As a behind the scenes insight, it’s an interesting read you can check out here.

6 Responses

  1. Grant is a great host and is very good at what he does, we don’t know what he’s been through to judge him of the past.
    He makes FF work perfectly he’s definitely made me a fan of his work hope he wins a logie for his hard work! Go Grant!!

  2. Ohhhhh…. I wish this man no ill, but his father has much more talent. A blurb in a News Corpse paper promoting a
    TEN show less than (what – 12 hours?) after Andrew wins a million on the Million Dollar Minute on 7???

    Product placement at its worst!

  3. If its filmed with 10 min breaks 6 eps filmed in just over 3 hours. Gosh how stressful. I like many work non stop for 8 hours a day, five days a week. I’d not be complaining if i had to work for 3 hours once a week.

  4. Six shows should take no more than six hours. Not sure why it takes so long. Should have worked in TV’s golden era when soaps and game shows filled daytime TV. Say When, Concentration, Temptation, Take a Hint, It Could Be You, Beauty and the Beast, Divorce Court, The Unloved, Motel, Tell the Truth…etc., etc.

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