Saw on an internet site that the last show this year before the summer break is on 27th July. Seems to be strange as the 27th July falls on a Wednesday. Is this correct or a misprint ? Thought it would be more likely to be Sunday 24th July.

Which site did you see it on?

The best way to find out is to ask the Banker on twitter.

However, there will be some on here that will know.

It was on the Wikipedia page for deal or no deal...the UK page.

Strangely it says last year (season 5) it ran from 24th Aug 2009 to 25th July 2010 (this is correct) and there were 288 episodes and it says season 6 is from 23rd Aug 2010 (this is correct) until 27th July 2011 and there will be 300 episodes. So where are they going to fit in an extra 12 episodes in for what will be basically an extra 3 days if the 27th July date is correct

I think that's incorrect - I don't know where they've got 300 episodes from, and I don't see why the season would finish mid-week.

I assume the last show will actually be on Sun 24th Jul, and it'll return on Mon 22nd Aug.

Tut, tut, tut... you should know that Wikipedia isn't always right...

Some shows are being aired in August - Hall of Fame, etc

So Noel is doing a third Hall of Fame this summer, then?

Yup

How did you find out?

Are there going to be special summer themed shows for the final week before the break?

I hope there's a summer themed week. Those are always fun, and for some reason I walways find it interesting seeing newbies turn up during themed weeks and then finding out what they actually look like...

8th of July today. I guess some of the people on the wings now are going to be seeing out the series with us.

I can't see why there wouldn't be a summer special week. I know they didn't have any Easter specials, but that was presumably because they would've been too close to the banker birthday specials.

They normally advertise special weeks about a week in advance, so trailers should start to be shown from Monday.

(Incidentally, it seems crazy that next week will already be the penultimate week of the season! )

Yes, there will be a Summer Special week, and I have a vague idea of what it will be...

I did actually tweet @OfficialBanker about there being Summer Specials shows earlier, but then I read StatsMan's post above shortly after I sent it and so I deleted the tweet. However, @OfficialBanker did still reply a few minutes later to the tweet (even though I had deleted it ) and confirmed "Absolutely!"

I wondered what he said "Absolutely" to. I assumed it was your tweet to @richardosman about sweets, then I guessed from your later tweet that it was probably about the summer specials!

Well I posted the tweet and then saw StatsMan's post a minute later and so I thought I might as well delete it as I knew the answer and didn't expect him to reply anyway. Yet he actually replied to one of my tweets and I had already gone and deleted it.

Of course I'm not sure how he actually saw it as I had deleted it a couple of minutes before he actually replied.

If he'd loaded up his @mentions then it probably would've already had it displayed on his screen. So you deleted it too late, in other words.

Didn't think of that. Unless he reloaded after my tweet was deleted then it would remain on his screen I guess. I just got a surprise when he replied to me for a change.

DoND is on at 4:20pm - 5:20pm on Sunday 24th July, so presumably that's the day of the Season finale.

If it is a theme that week it should be being advertised this week, or maybe it will run until the 31st July which is also a Sunday?