Deal or No Deal

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Found out over at the UK Game Shows Yahoo! Group that C4 have commissioned gameshow "Deal or No Deal" (from Endemol) for the late-afternoon slot (i.e. 4-5pm) to air later this year, with a possible £100,000 prize - dubbed the biggest prize in daytime television.

It began in Holland and has aired for a couple of years in Australia, and has been picked up by NBC in America to air later this year after ABC dropped plans to air it (with Patrick Kielty - why have American networks started taking hosts from across here?) .

The concept appears quite complicated when you read it, but from what I gather you basically get one winner out of 26 people.

The winner then picks one of 26 cases, which have cash amounts ranging from 0.01p to £100,000 inside them, with the other cases distributed amongst the other contestants.

Six cases are then opened and based on the money still to be revealed, the winner is offered an amount by the "Banker" to walk away with in exchange for their case or can choose to stay in the game and take the 1 in 26 chance they are holding onto the £100,000. In the next round 5 cases are open, then 4 etc - but if the jackpot box is revealed, the Banker will withdraw their offer.

Details here: http://www.endemol.com/format_descriptions.xml?id=109


Sounds quite interesting - and certainly an improvement on more A Place in the Sun.

It's probably easier to play it than to understand my description - found a flash game (warning - it's addictive!)

http://www.geocities.com/dodgypa/deal.html


Apparantly also in the show each contestant holding a case wins a fixed cash prize if they guess how much is in their case. Also, if the main player accepts a deal early on in the game, they may be tempted to give up their deal - especially if you have two cases remaining with a very large and very small amount!

Deal Or No Deal is still showing in Australia, it's on The Seven Network and is shown every weekday at 5.30pm. Big hit (it wins its timeslot) and provides a great lead into 7 News.

Someone who has been to audition has revealed the top prize is now £250,000, and it's going to be more lighthearted like the French and Italian versions. The same contestants will be used for several recordings to givem more of a chance of winning the money.

UKGameShows.com is reporting that Les Dennis will host this.

Good choice I think - someone not only professional enough to be in control of the show, but with a personality and of course, game show credentials!


His first major TV hosting gig for a while I think - in fact since he quit Family Fortunes due to it being turned into a daytime quiz show!

This is excellant news; I watched "Deal or No Deal" when I was in Australia last year and found it very entertaining!

Bear in mind Countdown will be back in November. So if that remains in its 3.15pm slot this new show will follow it.

I heard a while back that this was Endemol's most successful new format, so I was wondering when it would make it to the UK

last week the 'Sun' were claiming it was between Noel Edmonds & Les Dennis. However just days earlier they reported Les was concentrating on his acting career and had turned down the offer of returning to host 'Family Fortunes' which is supposedly being revived next year for "a short run"...Vernon Kay is now favourite to take that duty. As for Noel...The Mirror are claiming he's also in negotiations with the BBC over a 'Telly Addicts' comeback.

It's looking likely 2006 will be the year of the Noel Edmond's comeback *shudders*

I'm confused- is only one case (or cash offer) won per show? Obviously they're not going to give away £250k per day!

Is the quiz in two parts or is the whole game about picking and opening the cases?

Apparently he show is going to be based along the lines of the French/Italian version where they have the same people for many days so more of them get a shot at the money.

I'm guessing the quiz element (which in every version I've seen, has never actually been worthwhile) is getting dropped. But I don't know.

The odds on someone taking away £250k are minutely slim really - you need the luck to pick the correct suitcase, but then you need the guts to see it through to the end and not bail out on a decent bank offer. It will almost certainly be giving away more than any other daily show has before though depending on how they skew the values. Again, I would guess (and it's just a guess) at a £250k case, £100k, £75k, £50k, £25k, £10k, £5k and 20 cases all the way down to 50p - along vaguely similar lines to the Aussie daily show.

Both. First part is a quiz to find the person to play the second part of the game which is all about picking the cases.

I watched the German, Swiss and Austrian versions whilst on holiday this year and found it compusive viewing.

I was hoping that some broadcaster over here would pick it up - bit dissapointed that it's going to be labeled 'daytime game show' as the format lends itself to being a peaktime show.

It would have been ideal to wrap around the lottery draws on a Saturday on BBC One.