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SRIV94:
[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Jun 18 2003, 12:18 AM\']But first, you can answer one of these yourself: have you in recent years seen a studio audience?  No?  Then that's your answer.[/quote]
I know SWEEP had a studio audience during the Lifetime years, but since they changed the way the contestants come out for the current production it's hard to tell nowadays.  In my view, it's rare that a show (game or otherwise) would use a studio audience and then drop it later in the run.  I know of two examples where a studio audience was used, then dropped--the 1978-79 season of ALL IN THE FAMILY (director Paul Bogart is quoted in a book about directing, \"After we dropped the audience in the last year of the show and it was all laugh-tracked, I didn't enjoy that very much\") and the misguided effort by NBC to add a studio audience for NFL '86 (since they were shooting in when was then David Letterman's studio, maybe the audience thought Paul Maguire would do some stupid human tricks).

Randy West would definitely be able to answer whether SWEEP currently uses a studio audience.  Mr. West, that's your cue. . .  :)

Doug

Matt Ottinger:

--- Quote ---Randy West would definitely be able to answer whether SWEEP currently uses a studio audience. Mr. West, that's your cue. . . :)
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I'll save him the trouble, since I've been in the studio.  There's not even ROOM for an audience.

uncamark:

--- Quote ---I know SWEEP had a studio audience during the Lifetime years, but since they changed the way the contestants come out for the current production it's hard to tell nowadays.
--- End quote ---


They did have an audience for the entire show for the first week or two of taping.  After that, they started having an audience of the contestant pool for the first half of the show and no audience for the second half--thanks to taping five front games back-to-back (David Ruprecht changes his sweater between each one), sending the unpicked contestants home, having lunch, putting the T shirts on the remaining contestants and then taping five Big Sweeps and end games back-to-back (and Madeline Kozlowski making sure Ruprecht's sweaters are in the same order as in the morning).  The clue that there's no audience for the Big Sweep?  The fact that there's a back wall where the audience was (or a curtain for the first series).  Still, they thought no one would notice and inserted audience shots--and then added insult to injury by having Johnny Gilbert read lines like \"...and our audience is going wild--look at them--do you think they're trying to tell our teams something?\"


--- Quote ---In my view, it's rare that a show (game or otherwise) would use a studio audience and then drop it later in the run.  I know of two examples where a studio audience was used, then dropped--the 1978-79 season of ALL IN THE FAMILY (director Paul Bogart is quoted in a book about directing, \"After we dropped the audience in the last year of the show and it was all laugh-tracked, I didn't enjoy that very much\")
--- End quote ---


Carroll O'Connor wanted more time to actually tape the show (closer to a film schedule) then the two tapings with two sets of audiences every week.  What they supposedly did(according to the voice-over at the end of the show) was bring in an audience to view the finished tape and record their response (similar to how one-camera sitcoms got responses before Charley Douglass invented his Laff Box).  This stayed all the way through \"Archie Bunker's Place.\"  It wasn't canned, but Bogart had to remind the actors to pause for the laughs that would come in later.

SRIV94:

--- Quote ---Carroll O'Connor wanted more time to actually tape the show (closer to a film schedule) then the two tapings with two sets of audiences every week. What they supposedly did(according to the voice-over at the end of the show) was bring in an audience to view the finished tape and record their response (similar to how one-camera sitcoms got responses before Charley Douglass invented his Laff Box). This stayed all the way through \"Archie Bunker's Place.\" It wasn't canned, but Bogart had to remind the actors to pause for the laughs that would come in later.
--- End quote ---
There very well may have been live reactions interspersed, but most of the clapping for the 1978-79 AITF season was tracked (most of the Tandem/TAT shows at Metromedia went to that particular audience track in the fall of 1978--THE JEFFERSONS and GOOD TIMES are possible exceptions).  You may very well be correct about them doing it that way for ARCHIE BUNKER'S PLACE--since they moved out of Metromedia and back to CBS TV City for those shows the reactions were altogether different.

And as a trivial aside, it was Carroll O'Connor himself doing that voiceover, over a rerecorded version (a half step slower and a lot thinner) of \"Remembering You.\"

Doug

DJDustman:
Does Lingo, Wintuition and Friend or Foe have a Studio Audience?

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