Deal or No Deal Island

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Deal or No Deal Island
Deal or No Deal Island Season 1 Poster.jpg
Genre Reality game show
Inspired by Deal or No Deal
Directed byJoe Guidry
Presented by
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes12
Production
Executive producers
Production location Panama
Running time64 minutes (premiere)
44 minutes (regular episodes)
Production companies
Original release
Network NBC
ReleaseFebruary 26, 2024 (2024-02-26) –
present
Related
Deal or No Deal

Deal or No Deal Island is an American reality competition series which premiered on NBC on February 26, 2024.

Contents

A spin-off of the game show Deal or No Deal , the series features contestants competing in physical challenges in an island setting to retrieve briefcases containing cash values. The winner of the challenge selects a contestant to play the "Banker's Challenge"—a game of Deal or No Deal where they must aim to make a "good" offer on their chosen briefcase to avoid elimination. The last contestant remaining plays a high-stakes game of Deal or No Deal, with the largest prize being a jackpot formed from the total value of the offers received throughout the season.

Format

Deal or No Deal Island is a reality game show in which a group of contestants compete in excursions to collect briefcases hidden across the Banker's private island, an undisclosed island in the Panama islands. [1]

Excursions

Each episode, the contestants compete in Excursions and must undertake physical challenges to retrieve briefcases with varying cash values. Certain challenges may include "red cases," which either permit a contestant to seize another player’s briefcase [2] or contain a minimal cash amount. [3] Contestants securing the lowest-valued briefcases are deemed at risk and may be selected to face the Banker's Challenge. The contestant or team gathering the highest combined case value gains immunity for that evening and determines which lower-ranking contestant will confront the Banker. [4]

Banker's Challenge

The Banker's Challenge is a conventional high-stakes game of Deal or No Deal between the Banker and the player chosen to compete by the winner of the Excursion. The player goes head to head in a series of rounds, each round opening one or more cases and revealing their values. At the end of each round, the Banker presents the player with an offer. The player must decide whether to accept the Banker's offer or keep their case. If the player accepts an offer worth more than what's in their case, they are safe and must eliminate one of their fellow contestants. If they accept an offer worth less than their case value, they are eliminated. At the end of the Banker's Challenge, the value of the accepted deal or contestant's case (if final deal is rejected) is added to the total final case value. [4] During the Banker's Challenge, if the player gets a record breaking offer from the Banker, he may choose to sweeten the deal by offering the player a personal deal, typically a cash prize that the player will receive regardless of the outcome of the game. [5] In some cases, if the player accepts the deal, they must agree to leave the game immediately. [6]

Final game

The last contestant remaining plays a conventional game of Deal or No Deal with 22 cases to determine their prize money, but this time with the Banker present in-person. The second half of the board consists entirely of cases containing $1 million on more, including the largest cases found during Excursions. The highest valued case was the total amount won in each of the previous Banker's Challenges, which in season 1 resulted in a top case valued at nearly $14,000,000. [4]

Production

On May 12, 2023, NBC ordered the series. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] On September 27, 2023, it was announced that Joe Manganiello would host the show. [12] [13] On November 20, 2023, it was announced that the series will premiere on February 20, 2024. [14] [15] On January 8, 2024, the contestants were announced. [16] On May 7, 2024, the series was renewed for a second season. [17]

In the first season finale, Howie Mandel appeared as the Banker.

Contestants

The cast of 13 contestants includes familiar faces such as former Deal or No Deal case model Claudia Jordan and former five-time Survivor contestant and two-time The Amazing Race contestant Rob Mariano. [18]

Full Name [16] Age [16] Current City [16] Result
Jordan Fowler29 Nashville, Tennessee Winner [19]
Amy McCoy42 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Eliminated
Stephanie Mitchell41 Gainesville, Alabama Eliminated
Rob Mariano 47 Perdido Key, Florida Eliminated
Aron Barbell26 Champaign, Illinois Eliminated
Nick Grasso29 Brooklyn, New York Eliminated
Dawson Addis25 Muskego, Wisconsin Self Eliminated
Alyssa Klinzing26 Kansas City, Missouri Eliminated
Miranda Harrison30 Fort Myers, Florida Eliminated
Kim Mattina63 Anthem, Arizona Eliminated
Claudia Jordan 50 Dallas, Texas Eliminated
Jamil Sipes47 Grand Prairie, Texas Eliminated
Brantzen Wong31 Tustin, California Eliminated

Episodes

No.Title  [20] [21] Original air date  [20] [21] Prod.
code  [20] 		U.S. viewers
(millions)		Rating
(18-49)
1"Are You a Gambler?"February 26, 2024 (2024-02-26)1013.10 [22] 0.4 [22]
2"Are You Calculating?"March 4, 2024 (2024-03-04)1022.52 [23] 0.3 [23]
3"Are You Fearless?"March 11, 2024 (2024-03-11)1032.87 [24] 0.3 [24]
4"Are You Intuitive?"March 18, 2024 (2024-03-18)1042.88 [25] 0.3 [25]
5"Are You Trustworthy?"March 25, 2024 (2024-03-25)1052.58 [26] 0.3 [26]
6"Are You Intentional?"April 1, 2024 (2024-04-01)1062.40 [27] 0.3 [27]
7"Are You Decisive?"April 8, 2024 (2024-04-08)1072.42 [28] 0.3 [28]
8"Are You Meticulous?"April 15, 2024 (2024-04-15)1082.69 [29] 0.3 [29]
9"Are You Ruthless?"April 22, 2024 (2024-04-22)1092.64 [30] 0.3 [30]
10"Are You Powerful?"April 29, 2024 (2024-04-29)1102.52 [31] 0.3 [31]
11"Are You Tenacious?"May 6, 2024 (2024-05-06)1113.03 [32] 0.3 [32]
12"Can You Beat the Banker?"May 13, 2024 (2024-05-13)1123.14 [33] 0.3 [33]

Elimination chart

Color key:

  Overall Winner
  Excursion Winner
  Bottom Player
  Banker's Challenger
  Bad Deal
  Eliminated
Elimination History (Season 1)
ContestantEp 1Ep 2Ep 3Ep 4Ep 5Ep 6 [lower-alpha 1] Ep 7Ep 8Ep 9Ep 10Ep 11 [lower-alpha 2] Ep 12
Banked$600,000$225,000$180,000$49,000$937,000$850,000$251,000$1,399,000$4,417,000$1,199,000None$3,750,000
Final Case$600,000$825,000$1,005,000$1,054,000$1,991,000$2,841,000$3,092,000$4,491,000$8,908,000$10,107,000$10,107,000$13,857,000
JordanSAFESAFESAFESAFESAFESAFESAFESAFEWINSAFESAFEWINNER [lower-alpha 3]
AmySAFESAFESAFEWINSAFEDEALRISKRISKWINWINSAFEELIM
StephanieSAFESAFESAFERISKSAFEWINDEALSAFERISKSAFESAFEELIM
RobSAFEWINWINDEALSAFEWINWINSAFESAFESAFESAFEELIM
AronDEALWINRISKSAFEWINRISKSAFERISKSAFEOUT
NickSAFESAFESAFERISKSAFESAFEWINWINOUT
DawsonRISKSAFESAFERISKSAFESAFESAFEOUT [lower-alpha 4]
AlyssaSAFERISKSAFESAFERISKSAFEELIM
MirandaSAFESAFESAFESAFEOUT [lower-alpha 5]
KimWINDEALSAFEELIM
ClaudiaSAFESAFEOUT
JamilSAFEELIM
BrantzenELIM

Notes

  1. ↑ Season 1 Episode 6 was a non-elimination episode due to a special case retrieved by Amy during the Excursion and opened by Aron at the Banker's Challenge. [34]
  2. ↑ Season 1 Episode 11 was a non-elimination as the first part of the two part finale where the final four competed for their spot in the final two. The show ended on a cliffhanger without announcing the final two contestants. [35]
  3. ↑ As the last contestant left standing, Jordan played a standard Deal or No Deal game with 22 cases, with 11 of these cases worth $1 million or more–the values of which were determined by the top case obtained at each excursion throughout the season, and the top case being the final case value, worth $13,857,000. She accepted one of the Banker's offers and won $1,230,000, and was a good deal with her case worth $1,000. [19]
  4. ↑ In the Banker's game, Dawson accepted an offer of $1,399,000 for the final case in addition to a $100,000 personal offer as a bribe to immediately leave the game. Even if the personal offer was not made, Dawson would have been eliminated regardless as the Banker's offer was ultimately a bad deal. [6]
  5. ↑ In the Banker's game, Miranda accepted an offer of $937,000 for the final case in addition to a personal offer of $40,000, which was hers to keep no matter the outcome. The Banker's offer was a bad deal, as Miranda's case contained the $1,500,000 dollar value, and Miranda was eliminated. [5]

Cheating

Reception

Critical response

Critical response of Deal or No Deal Island
Season Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
186% (4 reviews) [37] [ to be determined ]

On Rotten Tomatoes, season 1 holds an 88% score based on 4 critic reviews. Writing for The Daily Beast , Fletcher Peters argued that Deal or No Deal Island was a "dreamlike, messy, absurdist concept" that sounded like a "title ripped from 30 Rock ", and that she would have preferred another straight reboot of the original show, but that it was a "welcome twist on the original romp" and was "easy" to watch. [38]

Andy Dehnart was more critical, considering it "an awkward marriage of two different formats" that "tip[ped] way too much toward Deal or No Deal for my taste", panning the length of the Banker's Challenge segments (albeit admitting that he was not as much of a fan of Deal or No Deal to begin with due to its pacing), and the quality of its editing. [39]

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