‘Inside No 9’ Fans Fooled By Lee Mack’s Fake Quiz Show
Viewers of BBC show Inside No 9 were fooled by an impressive stunt on the live programme.
It’s the eighth season of the anthology show on BBC2 and new episodes arrive on Thursdays. However, a spokesperson informed people that due to a change in the schedule, the next episode would not go ahead as planned.
The spectators were then offered a special kind of viewing experience.
What happened?
Instead of Inside No 9, a quiz show presented by Lee Mack titled 3 By 3 aired instead, which looked like a regular quiz show and had nine contestants.
But in the closing moments of Inside No 9, the credits rolled and viewers groping in the dark suddenly realized they had been tricked once again by creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
Each week the writers preview the next episode, and all week they’ve been promoting Hold On Tight! an “On the Buses” inspired outing with guest star Robin Askwith. There was a trailer and advertising photos for the fake episode.
The fact that neither Pemberton nor Shearsmith were present during 3 By 3 added to the confusion.
“So you’re telling me that Reece and Steve hired an actor to do promotional photography and film some parts for the trailer for an episode they didn’t actually write???” @anna_sogo wrote on Twitter.
Another person said, “Last night’s episode of Inside #9 was the best TV show in years.”
For those re-watching the show on BBC iPlayer, the announcer does not say there has been a change in the program afterwards.
Again in 2018, the team fooled people with a live Halloween episode where everything went wrong.
After the beginning of the episode entitled “Dead Line” there were technical problems.
After trying to fix the audio error, a BBC apology card appeared and the announcer said the live episode had been stopped and an old episode was being played instead. But after a few minutes, the show was interrupted by a ghost before CCTV footage of Pemberton and Shearsmith in their dressing room.
Shearsmith was made aware that footage of her dressing room was being shown on TV, prompting him to tweet which his followers saw in their feeds in real time. In reality, they were broadcasting from an enchanted television studio.
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