tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23369592.post115001137039285286..comments2023-10-16T12:49:05.685+01:00Comments on Deal or No Deal UK: OverkillUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23369592.post-1150023247592943992006-06-11T11:54:00.000+01:002006-06-11T11:54:00.000+01:00I'm not sure if you were asking seriously or not, ...I'm not sure if you were asking seriously or not, but on the assumption you were I have several answers:<BR/><BR/>For those who don't want to follow the footy, DOND is a strong alternative and they know it.<BR/>It's on at primetime 8-9pm which means 3 things:<BR/>1. It will attract more attention. This means more viewers which means more advertising revenue and more people phoning in for the daily prize, which you can bet will be very high every day.<BR/>2. 3 ad breaks = more income over 2 ad breaks.<BR/>3. Big brother immediately follows it. Publicity for one = publicity for the other. And again that means more advertising revenue and if people get hooked, morecash to vote people out.<BR/><BR/>Endemol know exactly what they're doing and I suspect the numbers coming in will be higher than any numbers they lose.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Money aside, I've seen the special thing they're going to do (I won't spoil it here but wikipedia / dond uk article has the details) and I'm rather excited about it.<BR/><BR/>Hearing Noel remind us it musn't be the quarter mill, musn't be the 100 thousand over and over again twice a day and hearing his hilarious (sarc.) puns into ad breaks 5 times a day will be the hardest part for me.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Having said all that I agree with Sue; Noel's getting on a bit now and this much work can't be good for him.<BR/>However I'm not so sure this week was the cause of him being ill. The show is filmed something between 1 month and 5 months in advance depending what you believe. They may have doubled the production rate to get everything filmed to the end of the year which would probably be the cause.<BR/>We need more players to show up and tell us when they actually played.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com