British Soap Awards

[Tuvok]

Are the audience sozzled?

They are so loud, whooping etc.

[choux]

Probably. This sort of awards programme always reminds me of a coach load of over-excited children - not my type of viewing at all.

[ichkeria]

Are they giving out soap?

No wonder people are excited

[Buenchico]

The audience aren't sozzled (although I admit that I'd have to be before you could get me there!). They're simply follow instructions from the floor manager in the studio.

In the old days, the floor manager would hold up boards saying "Applause!" or "Cheer", to tell the audience what they were expected to do. These days they use big animated signs to convey the same messages, with the audience being rehearsed beforehand in doing so by either the warm-up artist or the floor manager.

The practice isn't new. TV studios have been using those techniques since the earliest days of the medium. Even earlier though, theatre managers were paying people to applaud at appropriate times:
https://medium.com/s/a-brief-history-of-attention/wild-applause-how-the-twentieth-century-tamed-the-audience-b796e18b01b1

[douglas9401]

There's also the school of thought that a great reaction to nominees bolsters the ego of some of the least able and talented thesps in the country.

A bit like a school sports day where there are no losers.

[MissTerious]

Its got worse and worse. Last night it was unbearable!! Even presenters shout now and screaming at everything seems to be the thing to do for young women these days!

[Canary42]

It's all part of the current "it's all about me-me-me" regime.

In other words, "How much better I am at cheering/whooping than anybody else here today"

The triumph of narcissism.

[Bobbisox1]

I haven’t watched EE for a few years and the clips shown last night, I know why, why the need to scream and shout at each other all the time?

[MargoTester]

Chas and Charity Dingle in Emmerdale are unable to communicate without bawling at each other too

[Bobbisox1]

They should have a Gurner Awards Margo :0)

[MargoTester]

Absolutely:-)

[MissTerious]

It's not just on the Tele. It's real life too. Shrieking young women everywhere.

[smurfchops]

Switch off. I do. Immediately.

[MissTerious]

We do too smurf. We miss a lot of quite good shows. Things we turn off are shrieking audiences, anything with Ant and Dec, Davina mcCall, or Danny Dyer.

[choux]

Tuvok, no surprise here then with a free bar:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10908433/British-Soap-Awards-Jessie-Wallace-gets-hug-Lauren-Socha-makes-bleary-eyed-exit.html

[andy-hughes]

The 'whooping and shrieking' phenomenon began in the earlier series of 'talent' shows like X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, and now it's taken over everything where any modicum of appreciation is being called for.

It's seriously tiresome, but we have to live with it, hard though that is.

I was watching Steve Harley play at an outdoor festival, and I was a couple of rows from the front with a really exciteable woman behind me.

At each of the two silent pauses in 'Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me), she let out this foghorn 'Whooo!!!' and Harley just looked at her in disgust.

I wanted to turn round and ask her - "Do you really think his performance is enhanced by you butting in with that stupid noise?" but what would be the point? She wouldn't have understood, but been hostile anyway, so I seethed internally - again.

I know I'm getting old, but I don't embellish liver performances with my unscripted additions, it's bad manners.