They apparently enabled the delay, but left the live feed on the air. When you decide to use the delay guys, you have to actually cut to it. Flippin’ amateurs.
“They apparently enabled the delay, but left the live feed on the air. When you decide to use the delay guys, you have to actually cut to it. Flippin’ amateurs.”
Yup, that’s what happened. The “ending” took me by surprise, because it happened so suddenly, but it was a long distance suicide so you really couldn’t see any blood or gore. I think the guy was on some sort of drugs, as he stumbled out of the car, ran down a little sloped path, stumbled again and fell, seemed disoriented, and turned suddenly, then blew his brains out. All you could see is him firing the gun (right side of head) and then crumple.
That’s when you hear Drama Queen (Shep) shrieking “cut away, cut away”, which they finally did. Then it went to Ads, and when the show came back on, Shep wouldn’t say anything more other than to watch his evening show for what happened to the guy. Nice lead in for his evening show, n’est pas? So tune in tonite at 7 eastern time on Fox for the end result, which those of us who were watching already know.
Director’ll blame that on the TD and the TD will blame it on the director. The Tech Director is never believed in those circumstances. Even if the intercom was being recorded, and you can clearly hear the director call the wrong camera, they’ll say the TD should have known better.
Joy of being a “below the line” crew member.