BBC SCAMS STRICTLY VIEWERS!

Just shows these 'phone in voting shows are fiddled. Proves once again the
BBC are as bad as the rest.

Wonder which of the 3 couples the BBC producers have already chosen to be
winners.
I for one no trust in them.

Anyone heard how many complaints BBC have received also Ofcom?
Regards,
David

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"Agamemnoel" wrote in message
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Holby actor Tom, 31, fully expected to face one of the other contestants
in the dance off after he scored lowest on the judges' leader board.

He burst into tears when he heard he was in the final and all three
contestants hugged.

Minutes earlier presenters Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly announced suddenly
the phone lines had been frozen and voting had stopped, before telling the
audience all three were through.

A notice was flashed up at the end to tell viewers their votes would not
be wasted and would be carried over to next Saturday's final.

And doing that will only put Tom and Camillia at an unfair disadvantage
since their supporters would not have wasted their money voting for them
last night since they know they couldn't possibly be saved by the vote. The
BBC must neutralise the votes and give the viewers who voted their money
back.


What went wrong?

The top couple get three points, second two, last one. Rachel and Lisa
tied for top in the judges' scoring, so each got three points.

Tom came last with one point.

Even if he won the public vote and got three points he would have just
four.

Rachel and Lisa would then get either one or two points from the public
vote giving them four or five.

That left Tom in the dance off. But as the public were asked to vote to
save him - and he could not be - the BBC shelved the vote.

'How dare the BBC fix show to keep Tom in'

'We have wasted Saturday evening & our cash'

-VIEWER ON INTERNET

"David" wrote in message
...
Just shows these 'phone in voting shows are fiddled. Proves once again
the BBC are as bad as the rest.

Wonder which of the 3 couples the BBC producers have already chosen to be
winners.
I for one no trust in them.

Anyone heard how many complaints BBC have received also Ofcom?
Regards,
David


The Mirror says hundreds.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs2/news...5875-20970021/

In article ,
Agamemnoel wrote:

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Agamemnoel wrote:
What a bloody scam!

WTF has this got to do with either digital TV techniques, or Dr Who ?

It's on a digital only channel, BBCHD, and it is interactive television
because of the phone voting thus I have every right to post about it on an
interactive digital television forum. Further more John Barrowman the star
of Doctor Who and spin-off series Torchwood was on it and its sister
programme It Takes Two a couple of weeks ago therefore I have every right to
post about it in a Doctor Who forum.


I thought so, nothing. Do us all a favour and bugger off forever old chap.

I thought so and another fool and an unsociable troll.


Are you sying this is Zarbitroll in disguise?
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On 14 Dec, 04:49, "Agamemnoel" wrote:
"Stephen O'Connell" wrote in message

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Agamemnoel wrote:
"Stephen O'Connell" wrote in message
...
Agamemnoel wrote:
What a bloody scam!

And?

You sound upset. Did the people you voted for not make it through or
something?

From the day John Sergeant quit I thought the BBC would roll over the
votes from the semi-final to the final, but I assumed they would tell
the audience first, before they voted.

I didn't vote since there was no chance of Tom & Camilla being saved
from the dance off with the top two couples on 3 points each and Tom
& Camilla on 1 point. The audience should have been told this before
the lines were opened, but they were not and the vote should never
have gone ahead. The rules were changed at the last moment to keep
them all in.

To be honest, I don't watch any of that reality TV ****, and viewers who
waste their time texting or phoning in to those shows are, in my opinion,
just idiots. What's that old saying, a fool and his money are easily
parted? So true. That's the way I look at all those phone-in type of
thing.
A waste of time, and money. But each to their own and all that...

If the BBC had any sense they'd have allowed everyone to vote for the
contestants on Strictly and on every other interactive show on the Internet
and then they wouldn't have to be forced to give people back their money.
Ofcom should ban telephone voting once and for all.

Why? Are you too weak-willed to resist the temptation to vote by
telephone if they ask you to? Tell you what, Aggy - make sure you
never watch the shopping channels or you'll be broke in two days.

Phil

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:16:55 -0000, "Agamemnoel"
wrote:


"Stephen O'Connell" wrote in message
...
Agamemnoel wrote:
What a bloody scam!

And?

You sound upset. Did the people you voted for not make it through or
something?

From the day John Sergeant quit I thought the BBC would roll over the votes
from the semi-final to the final, but I assumed they would tell the audience
first, before they voted.

I didn't vote since there was no chance of Tom & Camilla being saved from
the dance off with the top two couples on 3 points each and Tom & Camilla on
1 point. The audience should have been told this before the lines were
opened, but they were not and the vote should never have gone ahead. The
rules were changed at the last moment to keep them all in.

This is being discussed elsewhere, for example:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/f...play.php?f=100

(many threads)

There was a legal problem that the BBC did not realise until the last minute.

The public were being asked to vote for the couple they wanted to see in the
final. The problem was that it was impossible for Tom & Camilla to get into
the final however many votes they got from the public. That meant that
supporters of Tom & Camilla were being invited to spend their money trying to
do something that was impossible.

The rules had to be changed at the last minute to get over this problem.

The BBC chose to do it the way they did. You suggest that they should have
adopted a different rule change by not going ahead with the phone vote.

Either way they had to change the rules, and to do it in the most honest way
within the spirit of the competition.

Anyway, back to other things. This is OT in uk.tech.digital-tv.

On 14 Dec, 13:02, "Agamemnoel" wrote:
Strictly Come Dancing sparks viewer fury over phone fiasco as all three
contestants make the final
By Karen Rockett, sundaymirror.co.uk 14/12/2008

On one message board a viewer, posting as CoolGloo, wrote: "X Factor final
is on, the BBC want to beat it in the ratings and we just wasted Saturday
evening - plus cash if you voted."

Yes, they did waste Saturday evening if they watched it - how's that
different from any other week? Or most other TV shows?

"We found ourselves in a unique situation because of the way the voting
system works. Because Tom Chambers could not be saved by the public vote we
felt it wasn't fair because he couldn't be saved from the dance off.

This explains a lot about the workings of the BBC: they think it's
unfair to sack people who aren't any good.

Phil

David wrote:
Just shows these 'phone in voting shows are fiddled. Proves once again
the BBC are as bad as the rest.

Wonder which of the 3 couples the BBC producers have already chosen to
be winners.
I for one no trust in them.

Anyone heard how many complaints BBC have received also Ofcom?
Regards,
David

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Find something serious to whine about for ****'s sake!

On 14 Dec, 13:11, "Agamemnoel" wrote:
"David" wrote in message

...

Just shows these 'phone in voting shows are fiddled. *Proves once again
the BBC are as bad as the rest.

Wonder which of the 3 couples the BBC producers have already chosen to be
winners.
I for one no trust in them.

Anyone heard how many complaints BBC have received also Ofcom?
Regards,
David

The Mirror says hundreds.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs2/news...y-come-dancing...

So that would make the real figure, oh ... about a dozen?

Phil

In message , Zarbiface2009
wrote

Right, like internet voting can't be fixed by clearing your cache, you
dozy ****.


It doesn't matter, these shows rely on the same stupid people voting
multiple times.

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