DOND will be moving to Bottle Yard Studios

http://www.itv.com/news/west/update/201 ... l-to-move/

Knew about that earlier in the week (saw something on Twitter) and it was mentioned at the Dream Factory during the last week of filming a few months ago.

Certainly not as convenient a location as the old studio (which was 15 minutes walk from Temple Meads Station). Expect the Bristol taxi companies will be doing extra business

From Paintworks to Bottle Yard!

Looks to be a similarly-sized warehouse they'll be using to the current one, and I expect we'll see pretty much a replica studio... although maybe they'll mix it up a bit!

It'll be interesting how much of an impact moving further away from the City's main train station might have on pilgrim intake - it's not as directable a location for tourists. Although on the plus side, it's pretty close to the Leisure Complex, so plenty of visitor parking!

And FREE parking by the cinema ect!

Hello Archie,

It will be good to hear what the new Deal studios are like and the parking too. I think parking was a bit difficult for pilgrims at the old studio. I wonder if everything will be under one roof instead of walking over the yard for amenities.

BB

Hi BlueBell,

From what I've read, It's going to be a lot like the old site at paintworks, with all the different buildings for edit ect. HOWEVER, I could be wrong, and the studio and audience may all be under one roof.

Series 10 recording starts on 28th October in the new studio. FREE parking too!

http://blog.dealornodeal.co.uk/the-show ... series-10/

All booked in!

New interview with Noel from earlier this month. Possible hint of a future theme week in there, a good read nonetheless.

https://www.gameshowcentral.co.uk/features/exclusive-talk-noel-edmonds/

On the subject of theme weeks, the Halloween theme has been announced here... http://www.imediamonkey.com/2013/10/14/deal-or-no-deal-goes-spooky-for-halloween-week/ Probably best to reserve judgement for now.

Word on Bother's Bar that DOND is moving to 3:30pm from the New Year. http://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=7811&cpa ... ent-144822

With ratings as they have been I don't think this was unexpected.

Make or break.

6th January is when DOND moves to 3:30pm according to Digiguide.tv

I wonder how this will affect the ratings from 4+1, as I reckon people watch it at 5pm on 4+1 when they return home from the office, college, school, etc...

Hopefully it won't have a detrimental effect but in reality I think is more likely to than not. Will it go back to 45 minutes, and what show will go in the time slot afterwards?

It's still an hour (sadly).

Yeah I think a drop is inevitable, but I can't see it falling through the floor. Most people who are in and want to watch DOND at 4pm will be in at 3:30pm. It also has a half-hour head-start over Tipping Point, which could work in its favour. Impact on +1 will be interesting; I don't know how it does at the moment but at the start of the year there were around 100-110k tuning in on there.

4:30pm will be Come Dine With Me/Four in a Bed style shows which I guess deserve the slot more than DOND these days - even if they are just as tired. Also I imagine the revival of 15-to-1 will go in here - but I really can't see that doing any better than DOND is, that will get boring very quickly I fear.

Countdown shunted back to 2:40pm just as it was rebuilding its audience is a shame. IMO Countdown is still as watchable, as a format, as it has ever been. Just needs to lose Nick Hewer and I'd be watching every day again. Ideally, I'd stick Countdown at 3pm and Deal (45 minutes) at 3:45.

This may well be DOND being put to bed but hey, they said that about Countdown moving to 3:15pm in 2003. You never know with those rascals at C4....

2:40 is such a stupid time to put Countdown on. There may be kids at school who like to watch it when they get home. Yes I know there's Sky+ but not everyone has it.
I also agree with stewartw, I can't stand Nick Hewer, he just bores me. I enjoyed it when Jeff Stelling presented it. Too bad he's focussing more on Sky Sports now.

Jeff's fantastic whatever he tries his hand at...

The move to 3:30pm doesn't seem to be happening on 6th Jan now - I don't know whether Digiguide made an error or whether the schedule changes have been pushed back (or scrapped).

The Channel 4 listings show DoND remaining at 4pm until at least Fri 10 Jan, whilst Digiguide looks a bit further into the future and has it remaining at 4pm until at least Fri 24 Jan.

Ah, that's good to know. 3:30 would take some getting used to.

From Monday 17th February the show has a new time slot... 3:30pm - 4:30pm.