Dave Gorman has revealed that during the making of the first series of the show they had only allowed themselves two weeks between recordings of each block of two episodes and as a result of the extreme labour-intensive nature of the production he fainted on-stage during the taping of this edition of the show. By the time of the fifth and final series they had extended the period between filming blocks to nine weeks but was still working 40-50 hours a week for three weeks and in excess of 100 hours a week for three weeks.