Post by Peter Duncanson [BrE]On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 06:08:24 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
[AGT]
Post by Peter Duncanson [BrE]Post by Peter T. DanielsBy the last time I watched, they gave no hint of any locations where they
were filming, and they'd given up the charade of flying quadrifinalists
to "Lass" Vegas.
In the UK version the broadcast auditions are held in theatres in four
of five named cities.
That's now it was for the first several seasons, and they didn't duplicate
cities from one year to the next. The finals were always to be held in
Vegas. Then for a while they moved the finals to Radio City Music Hall
(Rockefeller Center, NYC). I think the Newark season was the last one
where they even said where they were broadcasting from. They did one show
of aquatic acts in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty with the Manhattan
skyline in the background. And then for a year or two it was clear that
they had cut together events from various venues (Heidi Klum and Mel B.'s
gowns varied from segment to segment; Simon Cowell's t-shirt may also have)
and there was no hint of regionalism.
Post by Peter Duncanson [BrE]There are preliminary auditions before that. This description is not
from an offical source and I'm not sure of the details. However. the
"producers' auditions" whittle down the thoussnds of hopefuls to the few
hundred who will perform on stage in front of the judges and an
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11. People who apply for the show have
to go through a really long audition process
Once you've sent off your application to attend the open auditions,
you're expected to turn up on the day an perform in front of a
producer. If they like you, you then have to perform to a more
senior producer, and then once more in front of a panel while they
film you. If you pass this stage you're then invited to audition in
front of a live audience with the celebrity judges.
The preliminary auditions are held in a couple of dozen places in the
UK.
It must be something like that Over Here, because they show the instructions
for next year's competition at the end of the last several broadcasts of
each season.
But the non-live broadcasts can be deceptive. *American Ninja Warrior* is
shown in 2-hour programs once a week all summer: first the four (or six?)
City Prelims (locations aren't duplicated from one year to the next, though
eventually they'll return to some cities); then the four (or six?) City
Finals, for which the competitors qualified in the first round; and then
the national finals in Las Vegas. But if you check the Wikiparticle, you
discover that the City Finals are held in the week, or just a few days,
after the City Prelims (they don't have to disassemble and reassemble the
entire racecourse), and the whole season is finished before they start
broadcasting. (Which makes sense for the editors who make the two-hour
shows; if there are any surprise champions, they can be sure their runs
where shown and not abbreviated in the "while we were away" recaps after
each commercial break, which usually show three competitors, some of whom
complete the entire course.) Which also explains why all the venues are in
the south -- northern spring weather isn't conducive to high performance by
usually scantily clad musclepeople!
Post by Peter Duncanson [BrE]Ob AUE: "producer" is used in this context to mean a member of the
production team, not necessarily someone with "Producer" in their job
title.
It used to be that BrE "producer" = AmE "director" (the person who tells
the actors what to do on the stage), where AmE "producer" was the money
people, one of whom was In Charge; but the term "producer" has become so
devalued -- pejorated by overuse -- that the person in charge is now called
the "show runner," which term confused me for a long time because it sounds
like what you'd call a gofer who's always running around doing errands.