It’s not just anyone writing the questions either: world quizzing champion, Olav Bjortomt, is actually one of the question writers on the show. For more information about how we hold your personal data, please see our privacy policy. Sign up to receive television and entertainment email newsletters from our award-winning editorial team. They deliberately go out of their way to find questions that will trip me up.” The question writers do try and make Walsh laugh, to re-create that Fanny Chmelar moment. Bradley Walsh doesn’t see the questions beforehand: “The second the contestant sees the question, that’s when I see the question.” Do the question writers try to make Bradley Walsh slip up? Does Bradley Walsh see the questions before he asks them? So the chasers don’t have to take a calculator to their desk too, it seems. It may look like chasers pluck the figures they offer the contestants out of thin air, but producers tell them what they can offer before they sit at the desk. How do the chasers come up with the offers for contestants? Yes! The chasers film their walk to the desk fresh each time, it’s not a pre-record – they really are earning their money in each episode! New chaser Jenny ‘the vixen’ Ryan told us she tiptoes into the studio so Walsh can’t hear her heels clicking on the floor! Do the chasers really walk to their desk for every new episode? Walsh genuinely doesn’t know which chaser is going to appear on each episode.
Does Bradley Walsh know which chaser is going to play in each episode? Obviously the episodes aren’t recorded completely “as live” throughout, but there not far from it! It only takes about an hour and a half to film each episode, which runs on ITV as an hour with adverts. Three episodes of the show are filmed in a day, which means it only takes a day and half to film a whole week’s worth of The Chase! How long does it take to film an episode of The Chase?