DEAL
OR NO DEAL?
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Cristina won £310,000
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Deal or No Deal Facts Deal or No Deal began airing on Channel 4 on October 31, 2005. The first run ended on 22 July 2006, and the second run began on 28 August 2006. It is presented by Noel Edmonds and normally airs from 4.15pm to 5.00pm on weekdays (although in early September 2006 it was temporarily moved back to 4:45pm to 5:30pm, in the absence of Paul O'Grady through illness and in an effort to reduce Sharon Osbourne's ratings on ITV1) and early on Sunday evenings in a varying time slot, usually lasting 45 minutes and sometimes an hour. The weekday show is repeated on Channel 4's digital sister station, More4, at 6.05pm. The prizes range from 1p to £250,000, a record for UK daytime television, with the values written inside 22 sealed red boxes, each identical except for the number on the front. All the boxes are sealed by an independent adjudicator. Neither Noel, the contestant, the banker or the Endemol production team know which value is displayed in each box. The boxes are opened by the 21 contestants awaiting their turn to play, these waiting contestants are also regularly spoken to by the host and offer support and advice to the player, so they are familiar to the TV audience by the time they get their turn to play. These players stay on the show until they get their turn to sit on "the most important chair in television" as host Noel Edmonds calls it (or "stool", as Noel sometimes said in earlier editions), and each day's player is selected by the producers, instead of through a quiz as is done in some other versions. Each day a new contestant joins those opening boxes and waiting to play, replacing the person who played the previous day. Bank offers are made after the fifth box is opened and every third box thereafter. As of July 22, 2006, the show has already paid out to the players in the hotseat £3,744,360.27 in prize money, in 191 editions. This excludes the extra £1,000 that the Banker gave to contestant Gabrielle (April 15, 2006) when she said that she was going to donate the winnings to charity. January 18, 2006 - Episode 67 - marked the first edition of the second series of Deal or No Deal. The second series will contain 230 episodes - with only 25 shows left, as of October 10. The main difference is that once a person has made a deal with the banker, at subsequent (notional) banker's offers, the accepted deal is displayed on screen alongside the current "offer". This gives a clearer picture to the TV audience on whether the contestant has made a good deal. The stand on which the old-fashioned telephone sits is also raised slightly higher. Since show 101 on February 27, 2006, the figures of money displayed inside the boxes have been coloured red or blue corresponding to their position in the money chart. Since the first show after Double Deal week was over, June 19, 2006, the figures displayed in the boxes have also been pushed forward so they stick out more and form a shadow on the back of the box. They are still coloured in the way they were since February. The second season started with episode 235 on August 28. A new feature seen in this show was a summary of all the offers made during the game at the side of the screen, which appeared when the final offer was made. A week later the show was moved back by half an hour, this was to act as a spoiler to the Sharon Osbourne Show on ITV1 and to cover for Paul O'Grady who was scheduled to return to the 5pm slot but is unable due to health reasons. The effect was quite strong with Sharon Osbourne losing nearly two million viewers during the week commencing 4 September, as quoted in Broadcast magazine. |
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