ALMOST AS SINISTER is the gradual growth of practices which
are designed to deceive the viewer. It is not wholly unreasonable that the per- formers in quiz games should be given some in dication of the range of subjects on which they may expect to be questioned : but it is deplorable. if they are so prompted, that the audience should not be told. Why are programmes which have been filmed or 'taped' often presented as 'live'? If the companies themselves do not wish to dis- close these things, it is the duty of the Inde- pendent Television Authority to compel them to do so. But the 1TA, as the Spectator has had occasion to point out in the past, appears to be so busy trying to extend its empire (it is at present hoping to get the third TV network, when allo- cated) that it is not performing its proper function.
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