There used to be a time, I’m sure, when it wasn’t really a celebration for a programme to mark its second birthday. I think the Simpsons changed all that.
And what with Saturday afternoon being an absolute sod to fill for the mainstream channels (what with nasty Sky buying up everything) it would appear a chance to mark Deal or No Deal’s second birthday was too good an opportunity to miss.
I
was a bit late to the Deal or No Deal trend. Maybe it was the 4.30pm slot in the afternoon, clashing as it did with, er, work. Then it appeared on TV at the weekends, and suddenly it became must watch for anyone with nothing better to do. And even a few who did.
Take a trundle through YouTube and you’ll see some very funny international variations on the theme, but none of them are quite as disturbing as the UK version. Because none of them have Noel Edmonds on.
That’s not because he’s Noel Edmonds, or the fact he’s a man who seemed happy to spend much of the 90s hanging around with something large, pink and latex. It’s because Noel Edmonds isn’t any older than he was when he hung around with something large, pink and latex on Noel’s House Party.
Perhaps when he got into cosmic ordering he asked as his big wish, not to be the host of a huge cult TV quiz show, but to look the same age he did in the 90s. It’s just very strange:
1990s:
2007:
See what I mean?
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