Quote Originally Posted by Melanie View Post
>Big scandal currently in UK that a lot of them were fixed either in advance, or were fraudulently weighted against contestants. The regulator stepped in last month and 95% of all the phone-in shows have suddenly dissappeared, and the great BBC even cancelled all phone-in contests yesterday after a report divulged that the shows were rigged in at least half-a-dozen examples.
I'm sure you're all aware that the first big fuss about TV game-show deception occurred here in the USA back in the late 1950s. Even the President (Eisenhower) said it was national embarrassment.