Don’t want to sound like a pessimist but I recall Pointless and Celebrity Name Game both starting off alright in the same boat with ratings before plummeting to well below 200K. I guess it’s a case of wait and see in a few months.
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I watched Deal or No Deal last night and the contestant won 50c for the 1st time in the revived version! just like Jon De Laine won 50c for the 1st time of the original version in 2004
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Is this figure across 3 channels though? Or just the main channel?
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I remember reading an article on the (old) Seven website which states that he used the winnings to buy a Maccas soft serve for his daughter.
On the 2003 season, the lowest possible prize was 5c, which won’t get you anything these days.
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The 50c won’t get you a Maccas soft serve either for two reasons:
1 - the price has gone up.
2 - the machine never works.
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More for the fast food thread, but this statement is as mythical as ‘would you like fries with that’ - which was never actually a thing in fast food land.
He returned on an “unluckiest players” primetime special and won $70,000 through a supercase!
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I think it’s from three channels
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For fans of the original, Grant promised that the Deal Aussies know and love, along with the golden briefcases, will all be back. “We’ve made sure it’s simply everything and more. It’s supersized, more fun and on a scale that’s unprecedented,” he said.
Not sure what’s supersized ? … smaller audience, smaller set(?), smaller number of cases, smaller prizes, smaller host… 
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$923 as the first bank offer after losing the $20,000, $30,000 and $40,000 in the first round.
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They were too greedy
Yep, all I can think of is ouch(!) with what her last offer was and what she got!
I appreciate there are kind of two different versions of Deal or No Deal that do the rounds internationally and the US/Aus version is quite different in style and tone to the UK version but even accounting for that I found this poor.
I watched the perfect episode and it just feels so rushed and so fake with Grant’s gameshow persona. We learn next to nothing about the contestant, the case openers are just nobodies (other than one being a friend), the “guess the amount” game is an unnecessary sideshow which distracts from the main game and not having any interaction at all from the banker takes the psychological aspect completely out of the game.
I think it really needs a host who is more personable with the contestants rather than playing Mr Showbiz.
I do think though Ten are right to offer an alternative at 6pm, but not sure this is the long term solution. Maybe a local version of Richard Osman’s House of Games could work. I believe the UK version is streamed on Foxtel - basically four celebs playing trivia games and puzzles for the week. It airs here as the alternative to the news and rates pretty well.
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House of Games is extremely slow and dull, shows like that rarely translate to an Australian audience. UK slow-tv isn’t transferrable everywhere.
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Yes, I get that. Probably more suited to ABC or SBS if anyone did it.
ABC should just pick up the UK version for 6pm weeknights.
They are audience members. Each episode contains a section of the audience. In theory, if you bought a group of friends or family with you then there would be more somebodies there opening the cases.
Interestingly this is what me and my family like best about the show. The Chase and Hot Seat/Tipping point are so slow and drag way too long. I can’t stand the contestants back stories. Hot Seat was the worst offender for this. 1 hour game shows are horrible. I find DOND fast, snappy and quick to the point.
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