Deal or No Deal to air in December!

[Craig Karlberg]

[quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' date=\'Nov 22 2005, 02:38 AM\']FYI, the fifth show will be aired that Friday... so now there'll be the whole week's worth of shows at 8p/7p Central.  One note -- scheduling is always subject to change.

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That answers my question as to what the 5th episode's slot is.  Now, I just hope NBC doesn't blantly "cancel" the show after a couple airings.  I certainly DON'T want a repeat of My Kind of Town.  Sheeesh!

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Nov 22 2005, 05:09 AM\']
I certainly DON'T want a repeat of My Kind of Town.  Sheeesh!

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There are people in Egg Harbor City, NJ, who would like to see their town's appearance on My Kind of Town, Karlberg. Other than that.....

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Nov 22 2005, 08:51 AM\'][quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Nov 22 2005, 05:09 AM\']
I certainly DON'T want a repeat of My Kind of Town.  Sheeesh!

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There are people in Egg Harbor City, NJ, who would like to see their town's appearance on My Kind of Town, Karlberg. Other than that.....

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Some of us, who actually appeared in an unaired episode, would also like to see the show return. Word from ABC is that is has NOT been officially cancelled...though i'd bet we'll never see it return.

Back on subject, don't go speaking for the rest of us, junior.

[MCArroyo1]

Great to hear they're airing the fifth episode, but in all honesty I can't see the show doing too well.  It'll depend on how much publicity it can get in the days beforehand.

[StevensM]

The official web site for Deal or No Deal is now up.
NBC.com > Deal or No Deal

The set, from what I can see, looks nice.  Also note that the board with the briefcase values is shown on the site.

The site also confirms that the show will indeed be airing December 19-23 (five nights).

[clemon79]

Nice! Howie totally has the George Gray thing going on there. If he can pull it off as well as George did on TWL, I will be very impressed indeed.

[Brig Bother]

That's actually a very generous money ladder. Not many versions that go up to a million have a 750,000 case (dropping rather dramatically from 1m to 500k), and I like that addition because there's still something really powerful on the board if the million disappears.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Brig Bother\' date=\'Nov 23 2005, 03:47 PM\']That's actually a very generous money ladder. Not many versions that go up to a million have a 750,000 case (dropping rather dramatically from 1m to 500k), and I like that addition because there's still something really powerful on the board if the million disappears.

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It strikes me as almost too much, though. Espeically because the entire left side of the board is less than $1000. The feel I get is that they are more interested in producing big winners than they are an interesting and compelling game, and this is a game that needs all the help it can get in that department.

I still have high hopes, and I hope to happily eat those words when I see it, but it will be interesting to see how the payouts on this test run shake down.

[Brig Bother]

Mmm.

The interesting upside is that the drops are going to be that much bigger. The odds that you're going to have a case with more than $100,000 in it are "only" one in three (slightly less than, in fact) suggests that, well, your luck is going to run out sometime. The only value you're guaranteed not to wipe out is the one in your briefcase after all.

[NickS]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 23 2005, 06:56 PM\'][quote name=\'Brig Bother\' date=\'Nov 23 2005, 03:47 PM\']That's actually a very generous money ladder. Not many versions that go up to a million have a 750,000 case (dropping rather dramatically from 1m to 500k), and I like that addition because there's still something really powerful on the board if the million disappears.

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It strikes me as almost too much, though. Espeically because the entire left side of the board is less than $1000. The feel I get is that they are more interested in producing big winners than they are an interesting and compelling game, and this is a game that needs all the help it can get in that department.

I still have high hopes, and I hope to happily eat those words when I see it, but it will be interesting to see how the payouts on this test run shake down.

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True, but if you look at how the payouts for the Netherlands and the UK are concerned, it falls within the range.  I mean, the Dutch goes to 5M Euro (about $6M) -- and 1 and 3M are with that as well.  Also, depending on how Howie can lead them along and the bank's offers, the payout might be smaller.

That's just my .02 from what I've seen.

[byrd62]

NBC carried a DoND promo during their telecast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which always draws more viewers than most primetime shows on Thanksgiving week.  In this promo, Howie asks-- "$1 million...or 1 penny...one question....Deal or No Deal?"

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'byrd62\' date=\'Nov 24 2005, 10:16 AM\']NBC carried a DoND promo during their telecast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which always draws more viewers than most primetime shows on Thanksgiving week.  In this promo, Howie asks-- "$1 million...or 1 penny...one question....Deal or No Deal?"

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Looked good. VERY dramatic. Though I don't like 26 models holding the briefcases....I would rather it be done by other contestants, playing for bonus prizes for identifiying whats in their briefcases....

[byrd62]

Given the way US DoND is conceived to be more "brain-dead" than its other versions, I suspect they're going for the "eye candy" rather than let the contestants hold the cases.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'byrd62\' date=\'Nov 24 2005, 12:48 PM\']Given the way US DoND is conceived to be more "brain-dead" than its other versions, I suspect they're going for the "eye candy" rather than let the contestants hold the cases.

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That's pretty obvious. Also it saves the prize budget some money since it removes the guessing-game-for-a-nominal-prize thing.

[Brig Bother]

But they get models to open the cases in various South American versions as well.

Although they've recently changed it so that although they still open them, the losing contestants can now make guesses.