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Ooops, 7pm interview not so live

An interview guest on 7PM Project was left answering a question before it had ever been asked.

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A bit of a technical hiccup in Friday night’s episode of The 7PM Project left an interview guest answering a question before it had ever been asked by host Charlie Pickering.

While Pickering was introducing Children’s Party Planner Alex Shaw about the lavish costs of kids parties, there was audio of her already answering a question.

It was enough to throw any host but Pickering forged on, asking the question which elicited the same answer, this time on cue.

All very confusing, but it appeared to be a live introduction to a pre-recorded interview, which is not uncommon in television…

You can see the moment here around 2:35 secs (despite the ‘TEN’ watermark here, it was actually broadcast as a ‘TEN Live’ watermark.)

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  1. @alfagirl, no need to get so defensive, my point being if you don’t like it don’t watch it, and i am also entitled to express my opinion.

    I don’t understand why you watch the show if you like “unbiased journalism from experienced journalists”, since that is not the type of show it is trying to be. The only regular journalist on the show is Carrie. It is not trying to be the 7.30 report.

    Charlie expressing his opinion makes the show what it is, and it’s what a lot of people out there are thinking anyway. Steve Price/ Andrew Bolt get to spout their opinion when they are on, so why not Charlie. Just because he is not a journalist doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a valid opinion.

  5. Charlie can be good at times, mediocre at others, but I don’t get whats with all the hate for him. And I also don’t see why he’s required to be a journalist to host a not-so-hard-hitting newscaff/comedy show. If I wanted hard journalism at 7, I’d watch the ABC. Anyway, he handled the situation pretty well – you could see the “oops moment” in his face though.

  7. @ Nick You are absolutely correct he does have a law degree. That proves that he is a good student and is intelligent. Still doesn’t make him a journalist in my opinion. I don’t like his style and don’t agree with everything he says. What’s wrong with that? If we all liked the same thing life would be boring.

  9. @mv … How dare you presume to tell me what to watch and assume that I cannot cope with confrontational journalism. I have been a supporter of this program since it started. I am entitled to my opinion. I am a supporter of good unbiased journalism from experienced journalists. Tell me where Charlie got his journalism degree? Oh that’s right he’s a “comedian”. For the record I have never watched an episode of Home and Away but if people like it more power to them.

  12. @ alfagirl. Sounds like 7 pm is not for you.

    Charlie is the best thing about the show i loved how he gave it to the that Herald Sun Reporter about his story about Andrew Wilkie “coincidentally” when he is trying to toughing up the gambling laws.

    He also gave that guy from the gambling lobby group a hard time as well which i loved. That is what a good host should be doing. I am so sick of big business lobbying governments and spending huge amounts of money on advertising so they can get what they want. I for one am glad Charlie doesn’t just sit there like a puppet and agree with what is said. That’s what i love about this show.

    Maybe you should switch to home and away, a bit less confrontational for you.

  13. usually an admirer of your blurbs, but this is really scraping the bottom of the hard drive! omg… it’s not live? so what? even in news there are a lot of look live spots, but the world keeps on spinning, or is it the sun that spins? 😉

    1. If a blog can’t do anecdotal, observational and lighter pieces, I’m not sure who can. The “oops” and the nod that these are common in telly puts it into context. Charlie did well to pedal out of a director’s blunder and I think the piece reflects that. I acknowledge lots of things on telly whether big or small, and I don’t plan on changing that anytime soon.

  15. It was great not to have Dave there last week. Now if Charlie and his condescending moralising attitude would go away I might start enjoying this show.

  16. I think that very little of what is broadcast as if it’s live is actually live – last year’s Bathurst anybody? Even the live AFL/NRL games are usually up to a few minutes behind reality.

    Prerecorded interviews are fine but I don’t think programs should pretend otherwise. The ABC is up-front about its pre-rec footage and the programs don’t appear to suffer from a lack of immediacy.

    However, commercial networks lie to their viewers so often – program start times, “fast”-tracking, coming “soon”, advertising the next ep with footage from a different one, stealing footage from each other – that I suspect that being disingenuous is just second nature to them.

  18. I’ve noticed for quite some time that a good majority of the “live” cross interviews are pre-recorded. Charlie did well to cover this up on Friday, but they shouldn’t pretend to be doing every interview live.

  20. Charlie Pickering and Dave “I’m Asleep” Hughesy are some of the worst “performers” on TV. I cannot watch either of them – Carrie Bickmore (I think that’s how she spells her name) tries hard to raise the tone but is constantly undercut but the “Dumb It Down” Charlie and Dave Show.

  21. A lot of their interviews are pre recorded and they break in/out of Live/Taped mode quite frequently, more often than not they throw to the interview Live and go into pretape mode then break out of it Live

  22. I saw that on Friday night and it gave us a laugh… We thought Charlie covered it up really well. Who cares if interviews are recorded? Kudos to all shows that actually go live to air… I think they have an energy that other shows can’t match.

  23. If this happens once in a blue moon then that is fine compared to what happened when they originally um had um their um interviews … Um live. It made the show even more awkward than it needed to be.

  24. You are spot on, David, I saw the segment and was confused by the moment, but despite having worked in news/current affairs, did not pick that it was a pre-recorded piece. The ‘overlay’ of the guest in what they term the 2-way boxes – left side showing Charlie, right side showing the interviewee was rolling, which must have been a separate insert that was rolled too early – and the audio beat the picture of her sitting patiently waiting for the question! I do like Charlie though – he has become an accomplished host and a genial but quip-enabled presenter.

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