What do you think is the worst job in television? (Lighthearted)

[Winterfellismyhome]

Just watching an old Masterchef series and thought id bloody hate to be the one who had to clean the kitchen and wash the dishes afterwards

Runner for Philip Schofield

Totally agree with you op, I always think the same watching bake off or any cooking show.

Agree with op, the person who does the washing up on cooking shows. Or pours the ingredients into little ramekins for shows. Think they're called food technicians or something

Anne widdicombes’ dresser or make up woman when she was in strictly

@TheSpottedZebra

Runner for Philip Schofield

I hope they have a dishwasher

Bump

I either in tv, runners definitely have it hard.

*I worked in tv

Presenting Naked Attraction.

Presenting Naked Attraction
Or doing the make-up - I hope they have disposable brushes

Film crews for embarrassing bodies on C4.

Doing Tess Daly's make-up.

@ivftake1 I thought that is whom an alleged relationship is with?

Worst job in tv must be on any breakfast show, especially with Piers Morgan.

I worked in TV. One day we had to film in a very posh and expensive kitchen showroom in Kensington High Street, where none on the kitchens on display were less than £50k.

We were filming with real ingredients and after the first take while I reset the camera I asked the runner to get rid of the first gloopy cookie mixture we'd made.

Reader....he TIPPED IT DOWN THE SINK....in a showroom in which none of the plug holes were actually connected.

The gloopy mixture oozed out of every drawer, cupboard and part of that particular kitchen. In front of the owner of the shop who had kindly given us three hours free of charge to film in there.

It is still one of the funniest / most horrifying / worst / most embarrassing moments of my television career and if I ever run into the reporter who was working with me that day (hi J), we always remind each other of the completely and utterly common-sense-free zone that was the runner.

I also think that being a researcher on something like the Jeremy Kyle show must have been utterly soul-destroying.

And being a music librarian for the big organisations like the BBC....these people are highly educated musicians who have mastered their instrument, but end up not being able to get a job as a musician so they take what is a very low-paid job as a music librarian in a dismal building in the arse end of London.....which means that producers who are working on a piece for TV or radio and don't know the name of the song end up calling them up and humming the song down the phone to them. Like a bad "name that tune". Often classical music so no words to go on. They were geniuses really and I often murdered a classic song by saying it goes "dum dum Dee dum dum dum" etc down the phone and I used to think the poor librarian was probably banging her head against a brick wall at what her promising music career had become.