Glen's game today.

Noel wishes everyone a happy new year as he takes us into 2008, and he runs through the highs and lows of 2007...

Glen has box 9 today. Glen is from Billingham, and is a DJ, Noel says that he has always wanted to be a DJ Glen tells Noel that he is known as StreetBoy on the radio, as he goes out and about on the streets doing various things, and tells us the weirdest thing he ever did was dress up as a woman and go out for a bra fitting!!

Glen shows us a few family pics, and tells us how he suddenly lost his dad earlier in the year. Glen has his partner in the audience, and Noel asks her to stand up and turn sideways! She is pregenant with twins that are due in 2 1/2 weeks!!


Here we go....

got feelings of an all red here...

Round 1

21 - £35,000 Stu

4 - £5,000 Sue

11 - £15,000 Glenis - Wow you do love your reds says Noel...

16 - £75,000 Jules - OH WHAT goes Noel

19 - £1 Kenny

Banker time

wrong!

Not the best start for 2008.

Glen tells Noel that he has been brought up to respect his elders, and the banker tells him that he has been brought up to clip little boys around the ear

The banker congratulates Glen on the upcoming birth of his twins...

Banker offers

£2,008

Glen says

NO DEAL

Wow nice ladder!

Stats after Round 1
Offer: £2,008
Mean: £25,627.39
Offer (%): 7.84%
Fair Deal: £7,343.50
Volatility: 1.35
Redometer: -16

Could it have been anything else?!

Board
1p
10p
50p

£5
£10
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1,000
£3,000

£10,000

£20,000

£50,000

£100,000
£250,000

There's the obvious £2,008 offer got out of the way.

No heartbeat!

And £2,008 wasn't really a unexpected offer...£2,007 last year!

Not a good start but Frank had a similar opener this time last year and won £36,126...

Next round

1 - 10p Lloyd

22 - £500 Pat


Glen goes to Brian with box 7 next, but Noel puts on his DJ voice to introduce the break

I wonder if the banker has his 2008 times table ready for today's show then.

2008 x 18 = £36,144. Hope so!

I notice the more defined board graphics are present in the normal shows...

It almost seems as if they have replaced the entire display as the old one looked like it had a lot of dead pixels!

We're back
Last box before the banker...

Glen sticks with Brian and Noel asks if he can pick someone happier

7 - £50 Brian

Banker time

First blue round of 2008 and the banker thinking the round was "whack" all sounds a bit desperate. AGAIN. Should make a new year's revolution to cut the gags. lol.

That's the first all blue round of 2008 says the banker. The banker reveals that when Glen first met his partner he pretended to be Ant's little brother from Ant and Dec

Banker offers

£12,048

resolution i mean.

Stats after Round 2
Offer: £12,048
Mean: £31,079.68
Offer (%): 38.76%
Fair Deal: £10,390.22
Volatility: 1.35
Redometer: 1 (↑17)

Surely just putting a 1 in front of the first offer would have been easier

Board
1p

50p

£5
£10

£100
£250

£750
£1,000
£3,000

£10,000

£20,000

£50,000

£100,000
£250,000

£12,048 of course being 6 x £2,008.

That's a very good offer says Glen, and Noel asks if that is enough for him to leave now....

Glen says

NO DEAL

The banker's not going to like today's newbie and the £250K has come to the table since last October but Noel wouldn't know about last week's show yet.

Next round

Glen wants to find the 1p now...

13 - 50p Katie

Glen turns to Namfon and says that she has had the £250,000 quite a lot, and she surely can't have it for a 4th time!

8 - £250,000 Namfon

3 - £750 Natasha

Banker time

It has come to the table Noel

I'm guessing £6,048 now.

Glen says he is disappointed that he lost the £250,000 there... The banker calls and says that he calls Namfon "The Machine" and he has a deep deep love for her


Banker offers

£4,016

Why aye!

Stats after Round 3
Offer: £4,016
Mean: £16,760.46
Offer (%): 23.96%
Fair Deal: £6,678.76
Volatility: 1.19
Redometer: 0 (↓1)

Board
1p



£5
£10

£100
£250


£1,000
£3,000

£10,000

£20,000

£50,000

£100,000


You canne be serious why aye man

Glen turns to his partner and she tells him it's his game...


Glen says

NO DEAL

The talk about Namfon having had the 250k 3 times being left in for the show told me she would have the 250k again, and she did.

Nampon's being the new black widow. Last 4 reds being £250K is pretty bad.

Next round

2 - £50,000 Deano - That really was bad news says Noel...

20 - £3,000 MJ

Box 15 with Danny next, but Noel gets Glen to do a link to the next break...

I think Deano's becoming a terminator as well.

10/21 of his boxes have been power 5's.

How difficult would it have been to edit out the £250K remarks until the box actually does come to the table in the normal shows.

We're back
Last box before the banker

15 - £10,000 Danny - OH MY WORD says Noel


Banker time

I predict a stick now. I can't see this being £6,000+

That is the wrong sort of balance on the board at this stage of the game says Noel... The banker points out that was the 1st all red round of 2008


Banker offers

£2,008

Stats after Round 4
Offer: £2,008
Mean: £15,170.63
Offer (%): 13.24%
Fair Deal: £4,234.46
Volatility: 4.68
Redometer: -14 (↓14)

Board
1p



£5
£10

£100
£250


£1,000




£20,000



£100,000

Everyone tells Glen there is one more round in the game...

Glen says

NO DEAL

The banker deserves to be beat for the last 2 mean offers today.

Next round

12 - 1p Geoff

Noel wonders if this is the beginning of a big turnaround...

Glen thinks today's newbie will have a blue today...

10 - £100,000 Newbie Laura

The curse of the newbie strikes again!!!

14 - £20,000 Nikki

Banker time

£208

This is beyond belief says Noel, and Glen says it's just not his day today... The banker can be heard laughing down the phone!!

Banker offers

£208

Dear god Urm...

Stats after Round 5
Offer: £208
Mean: £273.00
Offer (%): 76.19%
Fair Deal: £157.92
Volatility: 2.74
Redometer: -19 (↓5)

Board
£5
£10
£100
£250
£1,000

And we start 2008 with a new entry to the top 5 worst 5 box boards ever.

GLen turns to his partner who tells him that they can still do a lot with £1,000, and there is more to life than money...

Glen says

NO DEAL

Next round

18 - £10 Clive

5 - £5 Claire

17 - £250 Sean

Banker time with £100 and £1,000 remaining

£416

Thats better!

Stats after Round 6
Offer: £416
Mean: £550.00
Offer (%): 75.64%
Fair Deal: £433.11
Volatility: 10.00
Redometer: -3 (↑16)

Board
£100

£1,000

Glen says he could have done with that round earlier...


Banker offers

£416

Noel says you can buy a lot of nappies with £1,000

Glen says

NO DEAL

The banker calls and offers the SWAP, and as Glen is having twins he will DOUBLE whatever Glen wins

Glen says

NO SWAP

Noel opens box 9 and reveals £100

Box 6 (Mark) contains the £1,000


Glen goes home with £200

MONTAGE!!

The 2007 montage with the list of contestants a day late!!!!!!!!

About the montage: A day late? WHO CARES?

And welldone on £200 Glen.

Really really sorry for everyone for this, I don't mean any harm but I had to say all this.

Glen seemed a cool guy and I hoped he'd get the year off to a good start. But, despite it being no fault of his, that was one of the worst episodes I have ever, ever, ever seen. I wanted to crawl up into a ball and die by the end of the episode, it seriously was that bad.

Crying? Check. Crap game? Check. Contestant having a character created for them which will no doubt be mentioned non-stop from now on (Namfon the Black Widow)? Check. Bizarre gimmick that means nothing? Check. It's like someone's written a macabre dark parody of DOND where they've put everything bad about the show in and then shown it on TV.

And it was so, so, so, sooooo sloooooowwwwwww as well, it was seriously like this:

"This...is...a...very...unlucky...game..."
*shot of a devastated contestant for 10 seconds*
"I...can't...remember...the...last...time..."
*long shot of upset looking pilgrims*
"...we...had...a...game...like...this"
*phone rings*
"Your...offer...is...£208"

Etc etc etc.

Then when the montage was built up by Noel I got excited, here we go, the episode can redeem itself. And it consisted of...Kelsie crying? Charlie crying? Ooh there's Psychic Sarah...but they've chosen the clip of her with her head in her hands after the £250k's revealed in her box. It should have been a good, happy montage with memorable moments from the show - when I think of DOND in 2007 I won't immediately remember that fantastic moment where Poet Ian starts crying, but that was there as well. I worked for hours and hours making my Season 2 montage for youtube, I had to dig through piles of tapes and DVDs, and not only do Endemol delete it from the site but they say "Here's how to make a PROPER montage" and show that. It got a bit better halfway through, but I still wouldn't consider a slow-motion shot of Daniel dancing a highlight of the year.

When is Clive going to play?

Great, first show I see all the way through in ages and it's a crash & burn! It reminded me a bit of the first show I saw all the way through, Sarah in September 2006 who won £50! I think the fourth offer only being £2,008 was the breaking point, I thought that was a bit low considering £20,000 and £100,000 were both still in play! I got the impression Glen probably would've no dealt then anyway though.

The banker doubling the offer at the end was nice I suppose, and I think it won't take long for Glen to get over the whole thing - he's probably up to his neck in nappies right now!

So well done my fellow radio man! Cool montage at the end too!

Not the best start to the year...pity!

I totally agree with Billy, it's almost as if the mood has been set to a low for the start of the year now, and we need the last big character left on the wings to really come out and shine!

I was screaming at the telly for Glen to take the swap but £2000 was not to be. There wasn't any offer that was really tempting to deal at so he should have no regrets.

Really hope everything is going well for them both and the twins.

Not much of a game was it? One of those 'even Beryl would have had a trainwreck' games, truly horrific luck and the eight-box offer was an absolute joke to the point of making me long for the offers of last January. And that takes a lot of doing.

Was going to start a Dealometer revival today but haven't finished the preparations for my new twists to it. Not much point after a game like that - blessing in disguise!

A disappointing show all round really. First the obligatory sob story (fortunately no tears), then the partner pregnant with twins (usually means deal) followed by a trainwreck of a game in which the offers varied from inflated to derisory.

Glen though was a cheery chap who kept a level head throughout the game and at the end realised it was just not to be today. As he said he is blessed with a lovely partner and twins which is something that no amount of money can buy. Good to see he took his 'misfortune' (if winning £200 can be deemed that) so well and without the usual floods of tears from contestants etc. It makes me laugh the people on here who think the world has ended because he 'only' won £200.

The montage was dreadful and just about summed up what the show has descended into. A contrived nauseous schmalz-fest in which a big cash win is supposed to make contestants personal tragedies better. Ghastly.

What happened to the happy show I used to watch.

The banker is starting to get some momentum here, we really need someone to take him down hard soon or this month could turn into another month full of trainwrecks

I really got this bad feeling someone is going to join the 1p club this month and I just want someone to come out and take the banker for every penny and prove me wrong

Billy, you have every right to be agrieved about Endemol kicking up a stink about YOUR montage, it was much better than the one they put on today.

Copyright sucks and I don't see what's wrong with someone putting up clips of a show they like free of charge.

It's a bit rich of them when they stiff us for live streaming of Big Brother and yet they can't put their hands in their pockets once in a while to pay for music royalties, so instead of joining in with the housemates party we have to dance along to tweeting birds and airplanes

Yeah Billy and Basicasic have summed it up well for me too, Glen was a good guy and it was bad luck but I hope we get decent shows soon and cut down on the 'teary emotion'. the show seems different from what it used to be.

I don't know what the banker was thinking of with that £2,008 offer at 8-box - maybe he was hoping that Glen would follow in Michael and Terry's footsteps and deal it (well actually Terry's wasn't that bad despite the complaints he got on here). He deserved to be punished and instead he wiped out the two remaining good boxes.

Talk about a flat way to start the new year!

Shame, Glen seemed a good guy too - at least it wasn't really painful due to any life-changing offers turned down, and he wasn't emotional about it!

Billy, I think the editing seemed SLOW because there wasn't much to edit, and they needed to pad it out - I mean would any of the offers needed loads of consideration?

And the montage WAS rubbish, I mean why did they have Charlie crying - her games was one of the happiest of the period! And they should have things like Noel getting VENTRESS's box number wrong wtc...but no. And no nicknames of the contestants either, I mean surely they could have had, for instance, Peter "Basil Fawlty" whatever it was....

Well I wouldn't say it was so bad that I felt like crawling up into a ball and dying, as Billy said he felt like doing... but it wasn't a great show. I really liked Glen, I thought he was a very nice guy - just a shame the boxes didn't go his way. The montage at the end wasn't great and seemed to be mainly people crying, and the people who weren't crying were unmemorable. And the choice of music for it was odd too. The doubling the money thing was a little odd and unexpected as well... I hope this hasn't set the trend for 2008...

I didn't think the show was that bad, mainly due to the fact that I thought Glen was a decent player and despite the trainwreck of the game he and his wife at least remained postive and happy.

The little twist at the end with the Banker willing to double the offer was nice for Glen (if had got the £1,000) but surely it goes against the character of the Banker, if he's meant to be mean and nasty then why give his money away needlessly (and not for the first time).

As for the montage, it was alright, but out of all the moments over the past year that's the best they could come up with to celebrate. The montages they have on the interactive DVD are much better.

I hope someone does what Laura did last year, we could do with another QM!

Only got round to seeing this game tonight, but had already heard the result courtesy of yesterday's game.

Not a good way of starting the year, a game that had no money for Glen in it. I liked the guy, i did, just a shame his game didn't turn out for him.