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Deal or No Deal axed

(August 2016)

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VM
VMPhil
Brekkie predicting the future:
Brekkie posted:
The banker on the phone bit seems odd too - do the international versions do this? I think this bit would work better if Noel took it less seriously and the phonecalls were used for a bit of comedy flirting!



Early conspiracy theories:
Inspector Sands posted:
BillyH posted:
Anyone notice that in the end credits, the banker was played by 'Himself'?
Presumably there's no-one there at all and he's just told the amounts down his earpiece.



Reading through the first 20 pages of that thread, it appears to have been an instant success, at least with TV Forum members. (Impressive how many members still post here over such a long period of time too)
DA
davidhorman
davidhorman posted:
Was I the only one who didn't enjoy Deal Or No Deal? There wasn't anything I disliked, exactly, but it all seemed rather pointless.


And just 11 short years later, I've been proven right.
Critique, elmarko and VMPhil gave kudos
JO
Jon
davidhorman posted:
davidhorman posted:
Was I the only one who didn't enjoy Deal Or No Deal? There wasn't anything I disliked, exactly, but it all seemed rather pointless.


And just 11 short years later, I've been proven right.

I hope that's a joke.
BR
Brekkie
How different it might have been with Les Dennis.
LL
Larry the Loafer
Let's not forget the time we were all on the edge of our seats when this state of national emergency arose!

JO
Jon
It's all happened over the years. I always found it quite magical and unique that the format of DOND allows all this stuff to be left in. There isn't another game show that's quite like it.

It also shows an understanding that people quite like to see stuff going wrong and how it plays out rather than seemless editing covering stuff up.

No other show allows you to walk up to the Bath Road in Bristol just to ask a random cyclist what a player should do in the game.

Critics have always belittled DOND as a show about opening boxes or whatever but it's show about decision making and just meeting different people.
Last edited by Jon on 23 August 2016 12:31am - 2 times in total
JO
Johnr
I enjoyed being in the audience for a couple of the shows, would have liked to see more but Bristol is a bit of the way out for me sadly (and it required a taxi to the new Bottleyard studios)

It was a bit sad when they had to axe the viewer blue box competition due to the premium rate scandals at the time, a nice way to end the show with Noel having a bit of fun with the pilgrims and then 3 people getting their 5 minutes of fame often mucking up a simple box opening!
HC
Hatton Cross
Brekkie posted:
How different it might have been with Les Dennis.

Or Brian Conley (who hosted at least one non-broadcast pilot)
JO
Jon
Interestingly I believe Patrick Keilty did a pilot for US TV before the UK version was commissioned.
LL
Larry the Loafer
Hatton Cross posted:
Brekkie posted:
How different it might have been with Les Dennis.

Or Brian Conley (who hosted at least one non-broadcast pilot)


He apparently hosted the pilot for the 90s revival of Play Your Cards Right too before Brucie was lured back over from the BBC.
RO
rob Founding member
Brekkie posted:
How different it might have been with Les Dennis.


Of course he went on to host "In The Grid" on Channel 5 which was made by the same people as DOND. It wasn't a success though...

FA
fanoftv
I didn't like the phase where we went through new gameshow commissions that didn't have any questions. Surely the questions make it fun to play along at home. Take Tipping Point for example, without the questions a programme watching people just dropping coins wouldn't work IMO. 'In the Grid' could have been improved by questions.

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