Before, you only saw Robert and the Build/Design team do on-camera work.
Now we get every single crew member, runners, Marc Summers as a character, the director as part of the on-camera "cast".
This new format is way more obnoxious. I guess its an attempt to get ratings? When did they do this switch? Last year?
I hope they return to their original format. Otherwise I hope this is their last season.
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The very nexus of this ambush bs was S11E7 "Tornatore's Pizzeria".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4632234/?ref_=ttep_ep7
It aired here yesterday, and Robert mentions it's the first time they've done such a thing.
While it seemed genuine in this case, I believe key decision maker(s) made a mistake in trying to further exploit this strategy.
You should have seen the CHOCOLATE: IMPOSSIBLE one when the owners starting talking crap about Robert, the show, and the crew so much that a pissed-off Marc Summers jumped out of the production van and gave them a piece of his mind. I think Summers nowadays is a little bitter that he's now a has-been producing reality TV. Of course, his television career had sputtered ever since he was fired from Nickelodeon after being diagnosed with OCD.
I'm not talking bad about him, but Summers deserves better than this.
Yeah I'm looking forward to seeing that one! Should be in a week or so.
It seems that they've embraced the phoney-ness of that other FN show, Mystery Diners. Not the first (or last) time a show has been derailed.
I prefer it this way. Not often a show actually acknowledges the crew instead of hiding them as if cameras are floating in air. Great to see some behind the scenes type stuff
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