{"id":11402,"date":"2018-12-05T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2018-12-05T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:24:07","slug":"the-all-new-us-dond-is-as-slick-as-you-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11402","title":{"rendered":"The All New US DOND is as slick as you like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fact if it wasn&#8217;t for the slightly updated set and a new Banker you&#8217;d be hard pressed to discern it from the show ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to watch it I imagine you could probably find it on Youtube or Reddit or something, or even use the Dark Arts. The series will run on Wednesdays on cable channel CNBC, but a &#8220;holiday special&#8221; aired on the main NBC Network on Monday (making it surely the earliest Christmas Special for a gameshow since <strong>The Crystal Maze<\/strong> mid-advent Special last year).<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of Christmas, I&#8217;ll put some thoughts down underneath a cut so you can avoid being spoiled too much.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nice Christmassy set decoration, although changing all the graphics to red on white and white on red for Christmas is a bit of a Christmas misfire I reckon, here&#8217;s something I tweeted, I don&#8217;t understand why the values that have been eliminated (red background) are easier to discern than the values that are in white that are still in play.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I get that they&#8217;ve decked the set and graphics out for Xmas, but should the eliminated cases in red pop out more than the ones still in? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YcfhdOV7td\">pic.twitter.com\/YcfhdOV7td<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brig Bother (@BothersBar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BothersBar\/status\/1070050218769637376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">4 December 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s less bad here close-up, but in a wide shot it doesn&#8217;t look great.<\/p>\n<p>The big &#8216;twist&#8217; in this new version, other than the fact that the Banker is now a female, is that once during the game the contestant can make a Counter Offer, and would be forced to play on if the Banker turns it down. I have two issues with the way they&#8217;ve done this\u00a0 &#8211; firstly, the Banker&#8217;s offers are already close-to-the-mean generous, which suggests that the amount of movement the contestant realistically has is minimal, which means we&#8217;re probably not going to see the kind of moves you would hope for &#8211; either the contestant is going to ask for a couple of grand more and there&#8217;s no drama, or they&#8217;re going to ask for something stupid and there&#8217;s no drama. Secondly for something that&#8217;s meant to be a negotiation, the Banker remains an almost complete non-character, a silhouetted algorithm in a dress effectively. I could understand it if there was any player\/Banker interaction like in the European versions and there&#8217;s an element of mind gaming, here we just get Howie Mandel going &#8220;uh-huh&#8230; uh-huh, OK, the offer is $109,000.&#8221; In theory it&#8217;s an entertaining idea, in practice I don&#8217;t think the US set-up works to the twist&#8217;s advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Also the guy lost over $330k and it was all &#8220;that&#8217;s a pity. Join us next time for more <em>Deal or No Deal<\/em>!&#8221; No! The game is inherently about living with the consequences of your actions. Milk it!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway the show remains slick and watchable &#8211; and very American for better or (let&#8217;s be honest) worse. Better soundtrack than before I reckon. How easy it will be to watch when it airs first-run on CNBC I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact if it wasn&#8217;t for the slightly updated set and a new Banker you&#8217;d be hard pressed to discern it from the show ten years ago. If you want to watch it I imagine you could probably find it on Youtube or Reddit or something, or even use the Dark Arts. 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