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Deal or No Deal Cancelled?
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 1:21 am
by Millionaire Fan
According to hollywoodjunket.com and buzzerblog.com, production has stopped on both the primetime and daytime versions of Deal or No Deal. By the looks of things it looks like one of the two versions might be getting the axe.
Re: Deal or No Deal Cancelled?
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:02 am
by earendel
I don't know about long-term, but last night, in honor of DoND's 200th show they did something different: Speed DoND. Each contestant had to pick all of the required number of cases at one time (instead of one at a time), the cases were opened more quickly, and rather than do the phone call with the Banker, the offer appeared on the board and the contestant had 20 seconds to decide whether to take the deal or not (not responding was an automatic "no deal"). That cut down on the long drawn-out process and a lot of the conversation, too - only one supporter rather than three, and not much time to confer. The goal was to try and give away more money on that show than ever before (meaning that they'd have to exceed $1 million).
The first two contestants knocked out the $1M case in the first round. And they didn't meet the challenge.
Re: Deal or No Deal Cancelled?
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:08 am
by MarleysGh0st
earendel wrote:I don't know about long-term, but last night, in honor of DoND's 200th show they did something different: Speed DoND. Each contestant had to pick all of the required number of cases at one time (instead of one at a time), the cases were opened more quickly, and rather than do the phone call with the Banker, the offer appeared on the board and the contestant had 20 seconds to decide whether to take the deal or not (not responding was an automatic "no deal"). That cut down on the long drawn-out process and a lot of the conversation, too - only one supporter rather than three, and not much time to confer. The goal was to try and give away more money on that show than ever before (meaning that they'd have to exceed $1 million).
The first two contestants knocked out the $1M case in the first round. And they didn't meet the challenge.
Heh. That's the way DoND ought to be done! They could boil an hour-long episode down to ten minutes without all that emotional hemming and hawing.