Karol Strasburger was a guest on Kanał Zero. In a long conversation, he revealed what the background of one of the cult programs of Telewizja Polska – “Familiada” looks like. The show celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and all this time it has been relying on them – on the respondents.
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“Familiada”. Karol Strasburger reveals who the “surveyees” are
The “Familiada” format came to us from the United States. From the very beginning, it is based on the fight of two teams trying to guess the answers given by anonymous respondents. Each episode has several categories, and almost 3,000 episodes have been broadcast so far. In total, this gives a considerable number of questions and dozens of answers provided by respondents – respondents whom, according to local information, no one has seen or heard. Rumors unfriendly to the program say that these people do not exist at all, and the answers to the questions (sometimes extremely absurd) are invented by people working on “Familiad”. In recent years, there have also been suspicions that the “surveyors” are actually artificial intelligence that generates random answers to subsequent questions.
Karol Strasburger reassures us – none of these theories is true. The respondents are real people, flesh and blood, who volunteer for this task. What’s more, they are divided into two groups, which was discussed in more detail in Channel Zero:
This is such a mysterious topic. Among the interviewers are those who come forward, families. Our people go to the field and collect people who have volunteered. Surveys are carried out among them – the family comes forward, receives questions and answers. This is one group. The second group is a very broad Internet group and they receive questions via the Internet.
Has the host of the program ever participated in the process of questioning respondents? This is not primarily a matter of duties, but, as it turns out, also of interests:
I’m not interested at all. I’m not here for that. I try not to make assumptions about matters that do not concern me. I provide knowledge that is regulatory knowledge. I know it’s happening. I get people, questions and surveys. That’s all I get. I don’t get into any “where did these people come from and why are they like this and not others” questions. It would be too much. It would be unfair for me to get into some private matter of something that is outside the studio. This doesn `t concern me. I have a program to run, I have people and that’s it.
Before recording, you can review the list of the most important answers to specific questions. However, once the cameras are rolling, Strasburger is left to his own memory and reaction speed:
I more or less know what the highest scoring answers are. But I don’t have it while playing. Some things surprise me, he confessed.
