Is anyone actually remotely interested in this show anymore? How is it rating these days? Last I heard ratings were on the slide.
Really? I thought it was consistently pulling in around four million a day.
I must say that I find the mathematics of the game fascinating. It's fascinating how each player treats the money they're offered differently - whilst normally if someone was asked to either take £43000 or decide between £3000 and £250000 on the toss of a coin, they'd take the offer, the game seems to affect this in some way - almost in making people more greedy.
Is anyone actually remotely interested in this show anymore? How is it rating these days? Last I heard ratings were on the slide.
Really? I thought it was consistently pulling in around four million a day.
I must say that I find the mathematics of the game fascinating. It's fascinating how each player treats the money they're offered differently - whilst normally if someone was asked to either take £43000 or decide between £3000 and £250000 on the toss of a coin, they'd take the offer, the game seems to affect this in some way - almost in making people more greedy.
The ratings haven't been at 4m for some time, now around the 2m mark, and the mathematics of the game ceased to be fascinating some time ago. 600 editions in 2 years has resulted in the format ageing rapidly. Still, decent ratings for daytime, but formula TV.
The Saturday edition struggles though, doesn't even make C4's top 30.
I don't know why they still bother with the weekend edition - and it seems ridiculous they moved it back to Saturday against The X Factor. I think that was more down to Noel being on Sky on Sundays.
The problem I have with Deal now is everyone is there to "play the game" - and they believe the game is opening all the boxes whatever happens and taking what's in your box at the end.
Of course though that isn't the game - the game is about the offers and taking the most money you can for your box. It is very rare for the best strategy to be to "play the game" right to the end.
The problem I have with Deal now is everyone is there to "play the game" - and they believe the game is opening all the boxes whatever happens and taking what's in your box at the end.
Of course though that isn't the game - the game is about the offers and taking the most money you can for your box. It is very rare for the best strategy to be to "play the game" right to the end.
It's very rare for the contestants to play all the way to the end (ie just take whatever was in their box) unless they had been receiving very low offers from the Banker all the way through.
In quite a few of the recent games people dealt a little too early and should in fact have gone to the end. A few had the £250,000 in their box, but had some quite good offers so took those rather than risk joining the "1p Club".
But that's the gamble, and also what makes the show interesting.
Although the Saturday edition doesn't reach the top 30 (neither does any other show on that night), on most occasions it gets the biggest rating on the channel on that day.
The show has clearly gone the same way Weakest Link has with the ratings. When Link debut in 2000 it became a fad and had all the hype with massive daytime ratings, moves to primetime etc.... Two/three years later the ratings settled down but like Deal or No Deal, still obtain higher than average numbers today,
Although the Saturday edition doesn't reach the top 30 (neither does any other show on that night), on most occasions it gets the biggest rating on the channel on that day.
That Britains second biggest terrestrial commercial television network struggles to get an audience above 1m on a Saturday is a sad indictment is it not ?
Channel 4 has always struggled on Saturday Nights hasn't it? In fact I think it's something they recently said they were hoping to sort out in 2008. Hopefully it won't involve more DOND.
They always struggle on the entire weekend. Last Saturday's biggest draw was the film Along Came a Spider (1.7 million), while Sunday's biggest rating was Scrapheap Challenge (1.6 million).
Certainly the 7-9pm slot is generally used more for documentaries than anything else. It's arguably the most traditional night of the week with the BBC and ITV doing what they should be doing and C4 doing what many believe it should be doing.
They definitely need to find some post-watershed entertainment though rather than just relying on films.
In years gone by they've had Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, Last Chance Lottery and Boys and Girls (the less said about that, the better probably), but in the last couple of years it's been largely forgotten. It's been ear-marked for Friday nights, but something along the lines of Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong would be a good format to try out on a Saturday.
Back to Deal and despite all the scandals etc., the show doesn't feel complete somehow without the viewer competition. And I bet the banker is now genuinely under alot more pressure to pay out alot less.
What on earth have they been doing to this programme over Christmas? With these last few specials it appears Noel's stuck his foot out and tried to make them like Noel's Christmas Presents.
Trips abroad...gifts flying left right and centre!
The big debate is, are they struggling to keep the show popular?