We're probably the last to figure this out, but my niece and nephew called last night, excitedly yelling "turn on NBC RIGHT NOW!". I thought one of them had done something to get on the news. It turned out that they came across the show "Deal or No Deal" and recognized the format from our trip to Florence a couple of months ago. We had watched the Italian version of this show and could never figure out what the heck was going on.
I must say, it's just as dumb in my native language. Of all the wonderful things we can import from Italy (although I understand that this show actually originated in Holland), we have to choose this?
ellen
Posts: 3001 | Location: mahwah, new jersey, usa | Registered: 10 December 2003
Originally posted by ellens: We're probably the last to figure this out, but my niece and nephew called last night, excitedly yelling "turn on NBC RIGHT NOW!". I thought one of them had done something to get on the news. It turned out that they came across the show "Deal or No Deal" and recognized the format from our trip to Florence a couple of months ago. We had watched the Italian version of this show and could never figure out what the heck was going on.
I must say, it's just as dumb in my native language. Of all the wonderful things we can import from Italy (although I understand that this show actually originated in Holland), we have to choose this?
We also have a show called 'Deal or No Deal' here in Australia.
Is it the same? Contestants here choose a numbered case 1 - 26 containing an amount of money, hoping for a sum of $200,000.
Then a process of elimination of the other 25 cases begins, until they are offered an amount of money dependant on what may or may not be in their case.
This is where they 'deal' or 'no deal'
Just another 'bad taste' get rich show.
Elly
Posts: 1066 | Location: Western Australia | Registered: 27 March 2005
I had the same thoughts that you did when I first came across this show. I immediately called a fellow traveler and we agreed, it is the same show. The only difference between the Italy/American version is that in Italy the girls wear more provacative clothing.
We always get a kick watching game shows in Italy. We had fun trying to answer the questions on How to Become a Millionaire.
The quality of TV prgraming in Italy is a hotly debated topic. Some of the commercials can be extremely creative...one of my favorites was a car commercial with George Clooney driving the car. There was a caveat at the end saying, "George Clooney does not come with the car."
Originally posted by venexiananan: We could probably say the same thing about what ends up in Italy from the U.S. (McDonalds is only the beginning...)
It's not all crap (as well as it's not all crap what Italy exports). I could honestly do without McDonald's, wrestling and the big brother but, even sticking to popular culture (Keith Haring, Martin Scorsese, and John Coltrane are in another league) I appreciate Marvel Comics, Pearl Jam or ER. And Gorge Clooney. Should we consider him an imported good as well?
Alice, I think you have to blame us Brits for that one
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Absolutely! Just finished watching last night's episode on video. Great stuff. We couldn't watch it when broadcast because we were playing in a final rehearsal for Aida. Now there's a decent Italian export!
Jonathan
Posts: 2945 | Location: Stroud, UK | Registered: 18 November 2001
Oh, welll, you know... The language is MORE OR LESS the same... Last night I was trying to forget that there is one thing called Sanremo that colonizes our TV screens one week every year, and I watched The Odd Couple (Lemmon-Matthau!) in English for the first time (headphones on and from the laptop while my granny watched bad singers performing bad songs), and when the two British sisters came up it was hilarious
In the Croatian version of Deal or No Deal, they use boxes instead of briefcases and they are not numbered either but are named after the regions of the country. In addition, there are not beautiful girls in black gowns holding the boxes, but the general public. Another differnece is that there is always a chance for one of the people holding the boxes as well as a TV viewer to win a little something.
One of the major differences though is the fact that besides going all the way down to the lowest denomination of coins, they also have wierd items involved. So one box might contain a poster, another one might contain some spare buttons, etc. Each episode the wierd items differ. So could you imagine getting stuck with a handfull of buttons instead of a lot of money?!
For the past two weeks, the general public who have been holding the boxes as well the host and the contestant, have been in costume for carnival season!
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Last night I was trying to forget that there is one thing called Sanremo that colonizes our TV screens one week every year, and I watched The Odd Couple (Lemmon-Matthau!) in English for the first time (headphones on and from the laptop while my granny watched bad singers performing bad songs), and when the two British sisters came up it was hilarious 
Just dumb fun. 
