Deal or No Deal is a gameshow which
has been broadcast in the UK on Channel
4 since October 31, 2005. Series 1
ended in December 2005 and Series
2 began 1 day later. It is presented
by Noel Edmonds and normally airs
from 4.15pm to 5.00pm on weekdays,
lasting 45 minutes, and in a later
evening time slot, usually lasting
45 minutes, but is sometimes extended
to 60 minutes on Saturdays with varying
times, usually anytime around 6.00pm.
The weekday show is repeated on Channel
4's digital sister station, More4,
at 6.10pm. The prime-time Saturday
shows are re-run on More4 on Sunday
evenings, again at around 6.00pm.
Largest amounts
won
The highest payout to date is a UK
daytime television record of £120,000,
which was a deal accepted by contestant
Jennifer Miller on November 18, 2005.
She was left with the £750 (her
own box) and £250,000 when she
took the deal. The next biggest winner
so far is Gaz on May 2, 2006, winning
£100,000 (in his own box), followed
by Germaine (March 7, 2006) and Kirsty
(April 4, 2006), who both won £75,000.
Brenda (February 9, 2006) won £57,000,
which makes her the next highest.
The biggest prize won to date by
a player "no dealing"
until the end and taking the amount
contained in their box is £100,000
by contestant Gaz Hall on May 2,
2006. He had £10,000 and £100,000
left after rejecting an offer of
£35,000. The payout of £100,000
is the second-highest win to date
- remarkable given the weak board
Gaz was faced with throughout his
game. He took out the £250,000
on the first box, and all the big
prize values went quickly, barring
the £100,000. He also took
out the 1p just before the final
offer, leaving him with £100,000
and £10,000 left. Saying "no
deal" to an offer of £35,000,
he opened his box to find the six-figure
sum.
Germaine (on March 7, 2006) was
the second player (first was Jennifer,
third was Kirsty, fourth was Morris)
to "no deal" all the way
to a two-box end game with the top
prize still in play, and the only
one of these four to have had the
£250,000 in his box. He chose
to deal for £75,000, perhaps
unsurprisingly since the other box
contained only £1.
The two highest sums of money (£100,000
and £250,000) have on one
occasion been the two remaining
figures at the very end, on December
7, 2005 (this can be expected to
happen, on average, once every 231
shows). Unfortunately the contestant,
Sara, had dealt early - at £31,000
- and would have been offered £175,000
by The Banker (the highest he has
ever made). The blow was only slightly
lessened by the revealing of £100,000
in her box.
Smallest
amounts won
To date, four players have received
the lowest possible payout of 1p.
On January 3, 2006, Nick Bain was
left - after taking out eight consecutive
red (high value) boxes - with 1p
and £100. He said "No
Deal" to The Banker's offer
of £30, then swapped his £100
box for the 1p box. He had earlier
said 'No Deal' to an offer of £9,000.
On March 1, 2006, Trevor Bruce
also went home with 1p. He was left
with 1p, £250 and, amazingly,
the highest figure, £250,000,
as his last three boxes. £250,000
was then revealed before he said
"No Deal" to the Banker's
offer of £99. He declined
the chance to swap boxes and then
opened his own box, which contained
1p.
On April 14, 2006, Good Friday,
contestant Fadil Osman left with
1p when he declined the offer of
£7,200 with the 1p and the
£35,000 in play, and then
further declined a swap. His box,
Box 6, contained the 1p. This game
was particularly unusual in that
the banker, for the first time ever,
kept the same offer for three rounds,
at £6,100 (and then halved
it in the penultimate round to £3,050).
On April 25, 2006, Dave Ellis became
the fourth player to walk away with
1p, on the show's 150th edition.
He turned down an offer of £10,150
in the third round, before taking
out the £50,000 and the £10,000
(at the time the two highest values
remaining.) He was left with 1p
and £5, No Dealed at £1.50
and opened 1p after declining a
swap.
The other lowest wins are Raj (November
29, 2005) who won just 10p, and
six contestants have left with £1
- Mike (March 2, 2006), Barbara
(March 20, 2006), Janet (March 31,
2006), Gary (May 11, 2006), Raj
(May 19, 2006) and Simone (May 29,
2006).
Lowest deal
and offer
The lowest deal accepted was by
contestant Gerry "Geordie"
Reynolds on February 1, 2006 for
the amount of £20, the two
remaining boxes being worth 10p
(his own box) and £100. He
had previously said 'No Deal' to
an offer of £5,000. Geordie
subsequently revealed in The Sun
Newspaper (February 2 2006) that
he had spent the night before his
game undergoing tests for a suspected
heart attack in Bristol Royal Infirmary
and had actually collapsed during
the recording of the programme the
previous day (this was referred
to during shows recorded that day,
and his place opening the boxes
temporarily taken over by the floor
manager). The revelation that he
played the game following 32 hours
without sleep was the subject of
considerable debate.
The only other contestant to deal
for less than £1,000 was Jason
on May 22, 2006 who accepted an
offer of £300 with the last
two boxes remaining containing 1p
and £750. To complete his
extraordinary bad luck, his box
contained the £750 so he was
never going to join the "1p
club" anyway.
The lowest offer made by the Banker
in active play (as opposed to "hypothetical"
offers when the contestant has already
dealt) was the offer of 64p made
to Raj in his £1 game on May
19, 2006 with 50p and £1 left.
Contestant Paul on November 8,
2005 received a low hypothetical
offer of 60p with two boxes (50p
and £1) remaining. Luckily
for him, however, he had already
dealt for £6,500.
The lowest first offer was made
to contestant John on February 18,
2006 - he received a "joke"
offer of £8 due to having
insulted the Banker in a previous
show. The next lowest was made on
March 30, 2006, where Lucy Harrington
was offered £50 because she
was in 50 shows. Both contestants
had taken out the £250,000
in the first round.
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