Don't think I'd have personally let that episode air.

The original era functioned in its role as escapism, it was reasonably rare that somebody was desperate for any lower range win. Targets of 25k - 50k were not uncommon and weren't exactly treated as ambitiously optimistic.

Contestants agonising over offers that don't even break 2k just continues to remind us of how monumentally crap everything has become for everyone. And if it isn't crap for you, you're a bluenose or functionally deluded.

And I'll bang the drum again about proveouts. Do away with them, nobody ever plays on with honesty. Her first choice after the safety scissors deal was a box she'd specifically been avoiding.

It won't be renewed. It's not the right time. It may never be ever again.

Today, a contestant played the game and won money. Tomorrow, another one will do the same. This is inevitable.

A very unfortunate game - horrible luck in the first half, followed by the start of a recovery, only for the player to deal and then for the game to completely change tack. Not that I blame the player for dealing- 4.15k was arguable either way and, after all, it is a lot of money.

But what annoyed me the most was the 2 box proveout lie - there is NO WAY the offer would have been 31.5k on a 7.5k/50k finish. That's nearly 3k over the mean!

This is the problem isn't it. It's just the wrong time to have brought this back, especially with the lower prizes.

Maybe they needed to rejig the blues to have some decent prizes in there. You've basically got a 50% chance of having naff all in your box at the start of the game. Something like:

1p
£10
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1000
£1500
£2000
£2500
£3000

But maybe it just makes it a less interesting game if it's flattened out too much.

But the economic landscape is just too far removed from what it was when DOND started.

While I whole heartedly agree that the endless deliberation over sub 5k offers is depressing, I think you’ll find that it is totally being renewed.

It started at 2.4m and hasn’t gone below 1.8m since. Last night alone got 2.12m. The consistency has been remarkable and it’s doing very well in the tricky 4pm slot, just as well if not better than Tipping Point. It’ll be back.

Ah, but our resident American is in a worse situation - he might have another four years of Donald Trump to look forward to!

Always look on the...

Still mad curious about what the hell you took such issue with on the Real Life socials...