[quote name=\'Little Big Brother\' date=\'Apr 5 2005, 11:49 PM\']
Damn, they sure hold these shows for a long time. That taped six months ago? It would be impossible to keep a million dollar win from being "blabbed" for that long(re: Ken Jennings loss on Jeopardy was only a month from tape to broadcast)
Wasn't there a sizable gap between Nancy Christie's taping and the airing of her win, or at least until Millionaire released that there was going to be a female Millionaire?
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The difference then and now is that "WWTBAM" was airing the shows out of production order. Since they told us the air date when I attended the show in September, I assume that they're showing them in production order this season.
The difference is in the way the two shows are taped--"J!" tapes throughout the year with the two days every two weeks, five shows a day taping schedule (with a little more of a backlog to work around vacation times), while "WWTBAM" tapes the entire season in a four-month spurt of four shows a day, three or four days a week. Under that schedule, it's inevitable that there'll be a delay between taping and telecast, particularly if they are airing the shows in production order this season.
We've already noted that "J!" seems to be taping their Ultimate TofC shows closer to air date than normal (by the appearance of certain recent current events material), a luxury they couldn't afford with Jennings going down--unless you're Dan Enright in 1958, you don't know when any long-running game show champion is going to take the fall, so you stick to normal schedules and face the consequences.
