[Eddie]

well, you have to to appear on TV. It may well be different with just your voice on the radio but you would still have to give verbal permission which is what you are effectively doing when you ring in.

[microchip08]

Yes, but considering that, he might just be playing along.... prehaps fan? They could have phoned him up before 1st broadcast...

[fish heads]

In which case it would be fake and you've lost the bet

[Adam]

people ask too many questions. its not fake, i think its 100% real.

[MK Chris]

well, you have to to appear on TV. It may well be different with just your voice on the radio but you would still have to give verbal permission which is what you are effectively doing when you ring in.

At shows when you're just in the audience I think it's slightly different - they tend to have notices up saying that by entering the premises you are consenting to appearing on TV.

[Quincy]

HI!! im topher. you may remember me from such tv audiences as baddiel and skinner unplanned.

[Sidders]

people ask too many questions. its not fake, i think its 100% real.

Adam, use your loaf. I wish it was real too, but it simply can't be for the reasons stated above.

What about football matches? I've never seen any notice saying that I might appear on TV by entering the ground. In fact, I was on TV once when the BBC showed the Hinckley United match.

[Eddie]

Hmm, good point. I don't know, you've stumped me. I guess you knew the match was going to be tekevised though so that might count as giving you permission but I actually don't know in this case. that's stumped me.

[LastMinute]

What about football matches? I've never seen any notice saying that I might appear on TV by entering the ground.

I think if you read the small print on your ticket you'll find it's a condition of entry to the match that you consent to appearing on TV.

[Dimon Trowel]

I'm trying to win a bet though. I think it was Tops Pizza he called, if not then am losing 20 quid!

[DC]

I think it was Tops Pizza he called,

The first word was pizza, then followed by a bleep. You have lost £20.

[Dimon Trowel]

ah so it was pizza hut then.... however the more I read these posts the more I believe it was all fake....

[Sidders]

Sorry to break it to you.

[Sidders]

To show anyone on telly or on the radio they have to have signed what's called a rlease form. If they haven't then you can't broadcast their voice or image. That is why you see people on programmes with blured faces sometimes even though they're not criminals or anything. the TV company have to blur the faces of anyone who they did not manage to ask to sign a release form - it's a hassle but the same is true in both tv or radio although in radio you don't blur them obviosuly, you just don't broadcast it.

The more I think about this, the more I think you're wrong Eddie. I've appeared on TV a couple of times, but I've never signed any 'release form'. I think I was asked if it would be OK to show it on TV, but the more I think about it, I don't even remember that much. Having said that though, both times I knew that I would be appearing on TV, and even if I had of been asked I would have given consent.

[fish heads]

Yeah, I went to be in the audience for a sketch show last week, but I was never asked if it was ok to appear on tv. Obviously the audience is never shown in a sketch show, but one sketch turned the camera round to the audience, but we were never asked if we were all ok if that bit would be used on tv. Nothing on the actual ticket about giving concent either. Not that I'm bothered. Maybe Betti can give us some legal info on this?

[Eddie]

I may well have been wrong, It might be different for different types of programmes.

[MK Chris]

HI!! im topher. you may remember me from such tv audiences as baddiel and skinner unplanned.

You're only jealous. Of what I'm not quite sure.

[microchip08]

However, what would happen if, for instance the public in the background of an interview?

[Sidders]

I think that what Eddie might have been talking about. If you notice, there's not normally that many people if any in the background when they interview people in the public. They obviously try to minimise it.

[microchip08]

Now I'm not sure who to believe...

But what about the on-hold games, and the laura the vigilante thingy?

[Sidders]

Now I'm not sure who to believe...

But what about the on-hold games, and the laura the vigilante thingy?

Laura the vigilante was just Laura IIRC. The on-hold games they have to phone back and get their permission to play them, as was proved when he did one to an estate agent and he said on air that they wouldn't let him play it back.

Also on the your busted thing when he busted that guy for trashing his girlfriend's flat because he didn't want to go out with her anymore, he said that he needed to get the guy's permission before he played it on air. He eventually got permission but I think it took quite a lot of persuading (and possibly money going in the blokes direction).

[microchip08]

Could that have happened with pizza guy - i.e. bribes?

[Sidders]

Well possibly but it's unlikely he'd act so p*ssed off if he was being paid for it.

[microchip08]

Maybe he's been paid to...

act so p*ssed off

... as you so delightfully put it.

[Sidders]

Well it's hardly genuine then is it?