Thanks to an anonymous tip-off:
I did a run-through for Push the Button last year which involved being locked in a coffin and pretending to be a soap character who had died a tragic death in their soap. Hope this game is kept for one of the shows this series – expect us stand-ins to be replaced by the real soap actors, and the contestants to have to learn a list of around 100 soap characters so as to be able to identify the name and cause of death of any given 5 of these who appear from their coffins on that particular show. Which actors will appear? My bet: Dirty Den is a dead-cert(forgive the pun)…
Incidentally, I’ve looked into the It’ll All End In Tiers edit from this week’s show, in actual fact at no point do the clocks behind the families differ by several thousand to what’s shown on screen as claimed (although if you were really looking, sometimes it doesn’t match up by a couple of hundred). Once one team push the button, the money drops at about £150 – £170 a second (it’s actually quite difficult to tell unless you’re doing frame by frame analysis, which I can’t be bothered to do, although my rudimentry timing makes it £1k in 6.25 seconds, or £160 a second which is nice and “round”), whereas the rate of change early on is about £1k in 4.5 seconds. I would be very surprised if the actual rate was not consistant across the entire game – indeed, I wonder if contestants are furnished with the details beforehand?. But yes, an edited show is edited (certainly not the first time an edit has fit the result), but certainly no genuine evidence of impropriety.
However the unbroadcast lifeline element is still baffling.