[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' date=\'Nov 23 2005, 09:45 PM\']Hello there,
I was asked a very interesting question by someone today and I had no idea what the answer to it was. So, I thought I'd throw it to the all-knowing Game Show Forum and see what y'all can come up with:
We all know that, if you are a contestant on a game show, you are not allowed to share the results of your game with anyone outside of immediate family/friends until your show airs at the risk of forfeiting your winnings. But what's to stop an audience member who viewed the taping of your show, who's got nothing to lose, from going to the media with the results? I mean, how in the world did "Jeopardy!" keep audience members from taking money from magazines/entertainment news shows and sharing KenJen's results? Are audience members required to sign something? Moreover, what would happen if an audience member blabbed the results of your show to national media?
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AFAIK, the only television genre that requires you to sign release forms to sit in the studio audience is the daytime talk show of the single-topic variety. On my one visit each to Oprah and Jenny (Jenny was because a couple of people I knew were on the staff), I had to sign a form that, besides stating the usual you-give-your-permission-to-be-photographed-and-recorded boilerplate that's either on the back of tickets or on a sign outside the studio door, did state that any participation in the program was of my own volition and that I would not hold the producer, syndicator or studio liable for anything I might've been induced to say on the program. Needless to say, I kept my mouth shut. There was nothing about blabbing the outcome of the program to the outside world.
I don't know if Oprah's audience release form now has something in the order of if Oprah gives you a gift, you're going to have to pay taxes on it and that if it's a standard thing just to keep the audience guessing while they're waiting in line to get in.