Definitely par for the course for game shows. It’s worth going to a taping sometime. The ones I’ve been to shoot a week of episodes in a single afternoon. There’s maybe 5 minutes of actual content per half-hour of air time. The rest is crowd shots, commercial breaks, clapping interludes, voiceovers, recaps, canned previews, etc. When you see it being made, it’s remarkable for how little content there really is (and by extension how profitable these shows must be).
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