The iconic TV game show Deal or No Deal is set to return with a new host. The show hosted by Noel Edmonds ended in 2016 after 3,000 episodes.
Now ITV, which commissioned two pilot episodes of the rebooted show, has now ordered a 20-episode series, reports The Mirror. The show, which was originally on Channel 4, will now be hosted by Stephen Mulhern.
It will run across a month in daytime later this year with the host famous for Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, In For a Penny, and Catchphrase.
Insiders said two pilots went well. “Deal or No Deal is such a strong format you don’t want to go fiddling with it,” one source said. “It’s pretty much the same. The boxes are back, the banker is back and the 22 players.
"The only difference is Stephen, which gives it a fresh feel.”
In the game, 22 people start with a box worth from 1p up to £250,000.
One person plays and eliminates the boxes. They have to outwit an anonymous banker trying to buy their box.
Beginning in 2005, Noel Edmonds presented almost 3,000 episodes of the show and handed out £40million in prize money, although just eight people walked away with the £250,000 jackpot.
A revamped Big Brother is also returning to ITV, while the BBC is rebooting Gladiators and Survivor.
