20-11-2023, 06:16 PM
(20-11-2023, 06:01 PM)Jon Wrote: Didn’t Deal or No Deal start at 6 days a week? It was certainly 6 days from pretty early on. Countdown went to 6 days a week for a short while too.
With regards to the celebrity specials, I think that only happened at a time the daily show was already flagging and it probably needed to bring something more to justify its existence.
Yes, it was 6 days from the beginning. Most of the time the weekend episode was late afternoon or early evening but they did occassionally push it more into primetime and make a bigger deal of it. The weekend episode I think started on Saturdays then moved to Sundays - it probably should have been dropped much earlier than it was.
By current standards they didn't really have too many celebrity specials - just 15 episodes (including an 8 out of 10 Cats edition) out of nearly 3000 episodes, mostly in two series airing in 2012 and 2013.
As for the revival - a decent enough effort. I've no issue with the presentation of it other than the dodgy looking phone and the titles being so short they might as well not bother. A format like this though relies on viewers caring about the contestant, which makes the first show difficult. The gameplay certainly suffers from losing the £250k jackpot (on the old board that opening offer would have been around £9k, not £2k). Decent amount of money in the end though.