just a random question...

[pibs]

i think all gameshows are fake in some ways since some(most) are edited

[Cloudhunter]

He does actually talk to someone. He is actually playing against a real banker.

It's not fake, just random probability.

You have a 1/25 chance of getting the 250,000, and a 5/25 chance of getting one of the "power five". Simplify that, and you have a 1/5 chance of getting one of the "power five".

Cloudy

[kcajblue]

So he talks to himself?

yes.
he just makes up some fake conversation.

no $#@! kcaj.

well he gets $#@! from the producrers but obviously not a real bank dude. i can't stand that show or that ****ing cnut edmunds.

i bet that dude is just a dummy or something.

[ryan2006]

every one knows edmunds is a really a lizard dont they?

[dejkirkby]

He does actually talk to someone. He is actually playing against a real banker.

It's not fake, just random probability.

You have a 1/25 chance of getting the 250,000, and a 5/25 chance of getting one of the "power five". Simplify that, and you have a 1/5 chance of getting one of the "power five".

Cloudy

The "banker" is actually a producer on the show. It was revealed on The Chris Moyles show AGES ago.

[bah]

In the aussie version there is no phone, just a siren and a new offer comes up on the screen and on a display somewhere in the studio I guess.
They talk about the offer coming from 'the banker' though.

The 'banker' making the offer is most likely a computer that gives a figure based on some set method.

I dont know about the US version, but there is certainly no worker from your local bank thinking 'dam, he picked the low cases'.

[gdf]

He is actually playing against a real banker.
Cloudy

dude i never thought you could be that gullible...

[ExcruciationX]

The Banker in the U.S version is somebody named Peter Abbay.

[White_Hawk_UK]

'Banker' is just a title for whoever crunches the figures on the show - and they do crunch some numbers. The things is, those numbers are fairly simple to crunch (as CloudHunter points out), so anyone could be the banker, as all they need do is offer an amount that is:
1) below what the contestant can be expected to win.
2) still be appealing to the contestant.

Why should it be gullible, considering this, to assume their is a 'banker'? Even if it's just Edmond's grandmother sitting back-stage with an abacus.

I still don't know how or why a show like this one would be 'fake' in any sense of the word... unless the intention was to suggest that it is rigged? Even so, the only 'rigging' is allowing the contestant to assume that they have any control over the odds. To argue that there is/isn't a banker is like arguing that the lottery is 'fixed' because the guy who pulls the lever isn't actually a qualified professional lever-puller of the Lever-Puller's Guild, certified by The Global Instute of Manual-actuation Professionals (GIMP).