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Round 5 - proveout

Noel says Marilyn has either made a big mistake or a very wise decision.

7 - Claire - £250,000

Noel says he's so pleased for Marilyn, but she now needs to find the £75,000.

17 - newbie Derrick - £3,000

19 - Jenna - £1,000

Banker time

The banker says he thought he'd got Marilyn but he's not so sure now.

Banker's offer would've been:

£5,000

£5k is consistant with the offer pattern she had and probably worth the gamble now too.

Round 6 - proveout

Noel says Marilyn can still beat the banker.

8 - Mia - £500

"OH NO!", says Noel.

18 - Tony - 1p

10 - Sobia - £1

Banker time with £10,000 and £75,000 remaining...

Should have been a lot more brave going to two box and it would have paid off big time.

Oh dear... oh dear.......Big blow for the start of the new year.

Marilyn has £75,000 in her box 16

Box 9 with Rina contains the £10,000

Marilyn asks if we can start again! She says she feels lucky to have the £11,500.

So absolutely no change then apart from being more drawn out and some different graphics. Bit of a shame.

Well at least we've proven someone can Deal with eight on the board still. Though note the very low offers, and the pre-proveout spiel being very much out of the post-11-box-Deal textbook...

Hard to tell if there's a real eight-box Deal stigma, because Marilyn may well have gone at 11-box with better offers. Too early to assert the existence of a permanent 5-box ADP either way.

What did you expect? No need to change the gameplay after 1,500 shows.

The banker read her very quickly and got her out for a fairly low amount today. Would have been interesting to see what a £75k/blue finish would have been (possible a BG).

Mark Olver now gets a mention in the credits (as Studio Host) for the first time since the show began in 2005. I bet he would be saying "it's about time!".

The Banker recognised Marilyn was very cautious early on - so he had no reason to give her good offers as he knew he could offer well below what he normally would and she would consider them. It'll be interesting to see if the offers remain low for someone less cautious than Marilyn.

Don't miss tomorrow

I like the Board changes and the title/music changes. But I don't like the fact that the stickers in the boxes haven't changed to match the board colours just like they did last year. I don't like Noel's longer hairstyle either.

Great to see Mark get a mention after all this time

There was another change they recorded but they must have decided not to go ahead with it

One thing I don't think they will mind me telling you about was when Noel came on to the set he was saying his "whizzy" earpiece was hissing and asking the sound people if they could help

While this was going on Mark said to us to hiss when Noel said "that's better" when we did Noel thought it was very funny

The show now is more like the one we see recorded with a lot less cut out

Only Northern_guy noticed Noels new hairdo? His perm was almost as good as Marilyns

The first offer was a joke - considering we've seen much higher with that sort of board, but the second one should have been edging 10k as the joke was wearing a bit thin. As KP said, she may have gone out at this stage if it had been more realistic. She didn't say anything to be pessimistic, but in reality, as an older player its not like she needed a 'life changing sum' especially if she just wanted a trip to oz.

Her third offer of 6k was was about right considering she had just knocked out the 100k and the banker still had three of his power five in play. This is the turning point in her game and I think she just about broke even in terms of damage limitation with the £750 and 10p.

I think the offer should have edged up slightly to 8k, so the offer of 11.5k is certainly dealable. I think she might go as she had a target of what she wanted to acheive. Now she's dealt, we still have about 10 mins realtime of gameplay. Lets see how this pans out:) Maybe a bankers gamble later on?

She reveals the 250k and her decision is apparently vindicated. But after the rest of the proveout it ends up with the 10k vs 75k. I thought the 35k offer was about right and she would have dealt im sure.

With this new version of the show we are getting a lot more opinions from the wings and family members. We obviously didn't have this level of interaction in the old shows. Would be interesting to see how many extra minutes of the show there actually are when you deduct the ad breaks. Perhaps someone can stopwatch one of the old shows I'm guessing about 8 mins.

4OD shows today's episode as lasting 48 minutes (exc. adverts), whereas the old 45-minutes are down as 36 minutes (exc. adverts). So there's actually 12 minutes extra in the final edit!

mmmm.lots of thoughts here today.l thought Marilyns game was fairly uneventful.seemed to drag on somewhat.
l enjoyed the new format,liked the extra chat with everyone.
l noticed Noels hair straight away plus the sun tans everyone had lol!l hope we get something extra ie bankers gamble or some kind of twist to add on.l think some folk will switch channels due to the add breaks.we shall see!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE.

Apart from the graphical overhaul and an extended show there wasn't too much different than usual today (which is fine). The show did seem to get dragged out a bit though, especially the offer which Marilyn eventually dealt.

However i'm a fan of all the banter and extra stuff that goes on and so i'll be happy to see more of that in the future.

The new title sequence is very different from the old one (not sure if I like the new one more or not) and the new board & on-screen graphics are nice. Though, as mentioned, it would have been nice to see new box inserts to match the new look of the graphics.

It will be interesting to see what other little changes and tweaks they've made in the upcoming weeks.

Here's a few of the new on-screen graphics. Which i've put in a spoiler box so as not to make the post too big.