This is an issue that's been at the forefront of my mind lately - that I think the show being from 4pm to 5pm is probably too long.

Maybe the need to fill more time on air has resulted in this extra padding that we often complain about - I can only speak for myself, and it's ruining the appeal of getting back into watching Deal (Or No Deal ) for me.

It just seems like the show is - for want of a better word - boring these days. Even to those who are still avid viewers.

With that, I'll bring up something I suggested before - a move back to the 45 minute slot the show used to occupy.
Maybe it's that the period when I loved it was when it was 45 minutes - but everything always seemed to fit together back then.

Timing appeared perfect, to me at least. There was no real issue of padding, because, IMO, it wasn't needed.

Certainly the appeal of DoND was greater to me back in those days than it has been when I've fleetingly watched since 2008.

So...that in mind, I thought I'd run a poll -

If it was possible (and I'm not saying it is, but if it was) that the show could move back to the 45-minute slot, which slot would you prefer?

That, or the current hour-long shows we have nowadays? And...why?

You have from now until the end of eternity (plus 10 years) to vote.

Or they could cancel it altogether ? The horse is nothing but ashed bones.

If you want to watch the show at its peak, then tune into Challenge every weekday from 6:00am to 7:30am (7:00am to 8:30am on +1)

I happen to agree.

The show's peak was long, long, long ago. It should have ended long ago - probably just after I stopped watching.

I'm almost glad I stopped watching when I did - it appears to have gone downhill since, and agonisingly slowly. Torturously.

I've been used to the 1 hours shows for many months now so I went for that.

Don't mind either to be honest and having seen both lengths filmed, I don't have a preference although sometimes there is a bit too much waffle these days. Perhaps a 50 minute slot would be better (although that would be impractical to fit in the schedule)

Some games are better in 60 minutes, others in 45.

I'm abstaining. In an ideal world, I think I'd rather have 45 minutes but with the Sunday episode replaced by an hour-long extended edit of the "game of the week".

That's a good idea actually. We seem to be coming up with some good ideas as of late.

TBH, now that the show has been an hour for so long, I find it hard to recall the 45 minute ones. Show me a full one of those now, and I'd probably say it's a bit rushed.

There's nothing wrong with the hour long shows IMO. It's just the very average results of recent times means more filler is needed. There have been runs of games with no filler due to tenseness late on.

(In short, I'm abstaining as well. )

Have been finding the show really quite boring lately... So I went with 45 minutes. Prefer it that way, with less of the nonsense and messing about.

I agree that the 1 hour shows are becoming too padded out now

While i do enjoy wing banter and chemistry between Noel and the contestants, they just seem to be overdoing now with so much faffing about between boxes, and the banker calling back every so often for no legitimate reason other than to pad the show out (and of course Noel's obsession with ejecting people from the studio, sorry but that really has dried up now! )

I've watched some of the new 1 hour shows on YouTube and found myself having to skip to different parts of them due to the extra padding (I watch them on YouTube because I'm not in the UK, and i used to watch the last 10-15 minutes of the games on the now defunct ilovedond.co.uk site)

In a nutshell, I struggle to get into DoND now because it seems more dragged and they often seem desperate to entertainment going, which is why I'm more in favor of the original 45 minutes running time

45 minute shows for me. I can't stand there being THREE ad breaks and the shows have way too much padding these days. I don't want to listen to Bromwyn banging on about trees for the 100 zillionth time nor do I want to watch Giuseppe playing the mouth organ. This is NOT Britain's Got Talent!

30 minutes would be even better

BECAUSE THIS SHOW IS SOO LONG AND THERE ARE TOO MANY AD BREAKS AND ALL THE CONTESTANTS DO THINGS THAT REALLY ANNOY ME BECAUSE IT WASTES TIME & STUFF JUST OPEN THE BLASTED BOX AND NOEL STOP TALKING ABOUT FLUFFY HATS

Or what about 2 minutes?

Haha...it would appear that the shorter format of the show is more popular.

I think the main issue has to be the padding-out of the show, from comments here.

Is there actually any way the show could have retained its efficiency, the fluency it had before, even in the extended format? I'm not sure.

I think it's like - sorry StatsMan - the player pen pictures DEAL-EYE uses, that if you stretch it out too far it's just too stretched and warped, rather than the same as it was before.

I don't think there's any more padding done in the studio than there was before, it's just a change in the way it is edited.