Why is everyone scamming so much these days, whatever happened to honesty?
Listening to the latest revelations about the television phone votes scam, with Michael Grade making up lame excuses that ITV hadn't come to terms with the public interaction on TV shows and that no one was to blame and saying "I wish it hadn't happened", while really meaning "damn they've rumbled us" and "I wish we hadn't got caught".
Surely everyone can see that these "celebrity" shows are just a money making exercise, the old style Saturday night game show is long gone where a member of the public could win 3 grand if they were lucky and you just sat back and enjoyed it, now it's all Celeb come dancing, celeb ice skating, celeb cooking etc where the winner doesn't get any prize money but you have to ring in and vote at anything up to £1.50 a go.
Simple maths - old show could cost the tv company 3 grand, new show makes them millions with no outlay, even if they did it legally.Those after midnight quiz shows on a lot of stations are a total rip off, you have to ring up at 75p a go even if you don't get through, I guess they have tens of thousands of calls every hour and every five minutes or so they actually take a call, and even if you get through the chances of winning a prize are minimal as the quiz answers are really obscure, funny if you haven't wasted your money though :)
Question = White things
Top 3 Answers = Honduran white bat, Winter white Russian dwarf hamster, Coconut milk powder.
Wonder why no one got them :)
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