Whether it's changed for the better or not is a moot point, and one that we've subjected to a good old mooting ourselves. Far more important is the way the banker plays the game, and there's no getting away from the fact that this has changed quite a lot. But no such luck.īut however bad the soundtrack is, it's merely a cosmetic element. It sounds like a stopgap knocked off in a hurry, probably because it is, and if only they'd quietly ditched it after the first production run, it could have been a distant memory by now. And they're still using the same stupendously awful theme music. Right from the start, the music cues were always pretty much the least appropriate and most intrusive of any game show, but if anything it's got worse since then, with overuse of the cliched heart sound effect not only being exceedingly irritating, but also betraying a lack of confidence in the game's ability to produce its own tension. One thing that really needed to be sorted out was the show's music. Some for the better, some for the worse, and some we're really not sure about either way. The above was written in the show's first couple of months on air, and since then, there have been some changes. It's perhaps not quite the great and mighty format that some folk have talked it up as (and it does seem to be one of those shows that either you "get" or you don't) but as daytime gameshows go, it's pretty good and a deserved hit. "I think it's one of these blasted call centres again."Īnyway, it's friendly enough, Noel makes us care about the contestants and it's nice to see likeable people walk away with a decent sum of money.
The other boxes are then opened one by one, and an off-stage banker known as, er, "The Banker" offers the player money to buy back the box and leave the game, based on the values of the boxes left. A 'randomly'-selected contestant is invited to sit in the hot seat and becomes the player for that show, bringing their box with them. There are 22 numbered boxes, each one containing an unknown cash prize of between 1p and £250,000 and 22 contestants, who have drawn lots before the show to determine who gets each one. So goes the introductory spiel to this big money guessing game, of which international versions have already proven to be quite good fun. Remarkable Television (formerly Cheetah Television West) for Channel 4, 28 August 2006 to 11 December 2016Īs Deal or No Deal Live, 10 to 23 October 2011 (12 episodes)Īs Celebrity Deal or No Deal, 8 April 2012 to 18 September 2015 (14 episodes)Īs Deal or No Deal on Tour, 12 to 23 December 2016 (10 episodes) Jon Culshaw as Noel Edmonds (1st Anniversary special)Įndemol West Productions for Channel 4, 31 October 2005 to 22 July 2006
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