[SuperSajuuk]

The question will be then what is the future of Tipping Point? Will Deal or No Deal and Tipping Point alternate at 4pm like Tenable and Lingo do at 3pm?

Would Tipping Point have a higher production cost due to running of the machine, or would that be factored in with prize money budget etc.?

Tipping Point is probably cheap to produce in comparison to Deal or No Deal (max 4 contestants per day, no audience and a low jackpot that is rarely won), and it already takes breaks at different times of the year for various reasons. Series 13 only had 100 episodes, but all series from 2018 have been 165 episodes and it takes them a whole year to air all of that with their various breaks. That means they can churn out a batch of recordings over like spring/summer [or whenever they do their recordings] and then not have to touch it for another year, whereas DOND is more important to have it recorded and then aired relatively soon to avoid anyone leaking results before the show goes to air.

I could see a situation (if DOND was recommissioned) where Tipping Point is rotated out of the schedule with a batch of DOND episodes in November and at other key points of the year: in fact, DOND's first ever series was in November 2005 (more precisely, 31st October 2005), though unlike that first series which had 234 episodes produced, I would see the revival being much more limited in the number of episodes produced per series, and not being churned out like Tipping Point, due to the much higher prize on offer.