S&P?

[DadofTwins]

Several folks have commented about how Michael Davies spoke to the players before the PT game. One even mentioned how he said something about having seen the questions and anticipated somebody making a big run (or something like that).

I know S&P practices vary from show to show, but on most shows the Compliance people are VERY rigorous about making sure nobody who knows what the questions are has any contact with players before the game, off-stage or otherwise. In some cases, even knowing someone who might have contact with someone who has seen the questions can render a potential player ineligible. At the very least such contact must be disclosed prior to playing.

I can even imagine how such a "tip" from the Executive Producer regarding the relative difficulty of future questions might influence how a player uses lifelines early in the stack. Not saying it did, but I can see how it might.

[sunflower]

Several folks have commented about how Michael Davies spoke to the players before the PT game. One even mentioned how he said something about having seen the questions and anticipated somebody making a big run (or something like that).

I know S&P practices vary from show to show, but on most shows the Compliance people are VERY rigorous about making sure nobody who knows what the questions are has any contact with players before the game, off-stage or otherwise. In some cases, even knowing someone who might have contact with someone who has seen the questions can render a potential player ineligible. At the very least such contact must be disclosed prior to playing.

I can even imagine how such a "tip" from the Executive Producer regarding the relative difficulty of future questions might influence how a player uses lifelines early in the stack. Not saying it did, but I can see how it might.

I don't know who said that or at which taping they claim it occurred...but he didn't say that at the last taping, all he said was that he wanted to give away a million. I can't imagine a scenario where he would know the questions, since he would come in contact with the contestants.

[TheConfessor]

Several folks have commented about how Michael Davies spoke to the players before the PT game. One even mentioned how he said something about having seen the questions and anticipated somebody making a big run (or something like that).

I know S&P practices vary from show to show, but on most shows the Compliance people are VERY rigorous about making sure nobody who knows what the questions are has any contact with players before the game, off-stage or otherwise. In some cases, even knowing someone who might have contact with someone who has seen the questions can render a potential player ineligible. At the very least such contact must be disclosed prior to playing.

I can even imagine how such a "tip" from the Executive Producer regarding the relative difficulty of future questions might influence how a player uses lifelines early in the stack. Not saying it did, but I can see how it might.

I don't know who said that or at which taping they claim it occurred...but he didn't say that at the last taping, all he said was that he wanted to give away a million. I can't imagine a scenario where he would know the questions, since he would come in contact with the contestants.

He didn't say it to the audience. He said it to the contestants at their briefing. More than one contestant has confirmed what he said.

[Ritterskoop]

Maybe he was just funnin'?

[Fresca]

I don't remember him telling us he had seen the questions. He did say that the stacks had been lightened a bit (as I mentioned in my official postmortem) and repeatedly expressed the hope that someone would take them for the whole million. But never suggested that he specifically knew what was coming as far as I can recall. They made a whole to-do about how the questions were written in an office on the UES and only brought to the UWS studio immediately before taping.