Deal Or No Deal hits the road, rail and... skies!

7 November 2016

Legendary gameshow Deal or No Deal is heading out of the Dream Factory and embarking on a whistle stop tour of the UK of some of Britain’s most iconic locations. In what is believed to be a TV first, one of the shows will see Noel Edmonds host the show from British airspace on board a Boeing 737.

In these very special shows Noel, the infamous phone, 22 red boxes and The Banker himself travel across the country, bringing the show out of the studio and physically to the audience as contestants play on location for a jackpot of £250,000.

Throughout the tour, games will be played at the top of Blackpool Tower, on board Flying Scotsman, inside the Eden Project, underground in Wookey Hole cave; in the Great Hall at Longleat House, the foyer of wondrous Kelvingrove, Art Museum in Glasgow not to mention London’s Alexandra Palace and the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and of course, a flight from 37,000 feet over the skies of Britain.

Noel Edmonds says “These shows are some of the most ambitious ever attempted on television - the sky has quite literally been the limit for this incredibly special series. It has been an absolute joy and honour to meet Deal’s loyal fans whilst out on the road at this hugely exciting time and I can’t wait for our loyal audience to see them on screen.”

The Banker says “I’d thought I’d have a little fun sending Noel all over the place. He needs the exercise at his age. And as it’s Christmas I thought I’d do what I love most – watching people‘s dreams being crushed. Though I could be softened up with a little sherry and a mince pie.

With a run of almost 3000 episodes and more than a decade on UK screens, these games are set to be some of the most exciting and truly unique yet.

Deal Or No Deal Tour Locations

 

Boeing 737, Birmingham

Deal will take to the skies in a Boeing 737 aircraft from Birmingham International Airport. The plane will fly over British airspace at up to 37,000 feet. It is the first time ever that a UK television gameshow has been played on an aeroplane.

 

Flying Scotsman, Bury

Flying Scotsman was originally built in Doncaster in 1923. It was designed as part of the A1 class – the most powerful locomotives used by the railway. It was given the name ‘Flying Scotsman’ after the London to Edinburgh rail service, which started daily at 10am in 1862.

In 1934, Scotsman was clocked at 100mph – officially the first locomotive in the UK to have reached that speed.

In 1993 it received an interim overhaul and pop impresario Pete Waterman bought a 50% stake in it. In February 1996 businessman Tony Marchington bought Scotsman outright for £1.25 million.

In 2004, a campaign spearheaded by National Railway Museum to save the locomotive for the nation amassed the support of thousands, confirming its status as a national treasure.

Since 2006, Flying Scotsman has been undergoing an extensive restoration to bring the legend back to life, resplendent in its BR green livery. As the restoration process comes to an end, all eyes are – once again – trained on the world’s most famous locomotive.

The next chapter in the Flying Scotsman story will be its triumphant return as a working museum exhibit, conquering yet another record as the oldest mainline working locomotive on Britain’s tracks. Undoubtedly one of the jewels in the crown of the Railway museum’s world-class collection, it will now be presented to a new generation of Scotsman fans captivating the public for generations to come.

 

Blackpool Tower

Blackpool Tower opened to the public on 14 May 1894. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it is 518 feet (158 metres) tall and is a Grade I listed building. The tower houses various attractions including a Dungeon,, Blackpool Tower Eye the highest observation deck in north West England (at a height of 486 feet) and of course the legendary Tower Ballroom, home to strictly Come Dancing’s yearly Blackpool special.

Blackpool is one of the most famous seaside holiday resorts in the country. The majority of the UK population must have visited the ‘Vegas of the North’ at least once.

Blackpool rose to prominence as a major centre of tourism in England when a railway was built in the 1840s connecting it to the industrialised regions of Northern England. By 1881, Blackpool was a booming resort with a population of 14,000 and a promenade complete with piers, fortune-tellers, public houses, trams, donkey rides, fish-and-chip shops and theatres.

By 1901 its place was cemented as the archetypal British seaside resort.

Today the borough's seafront continues to attract millions of visitors every year.

 

Eden Project, Cornwall

The Eden Project in Cornwall is located in a reclaimed China Clay pit, located 5 km from the town of St Austell, Cornwall. The project brief was: “To create a spectacular theatre in which to tell the story of human dependence on plants.”

Today the tropical paradise, now known throughout the world, is attracting more than a million visitors a year!

The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The larger of the two biomes simulates a Rainforest environment and the second, a Mediterranean environment.

The two biomes are the largest 'geodesic lean to' conservatories in the world.

The Rainforest biome is 11 double decker buses in height and 24 buses in length!

The Eden Project has been used as a filming location for the 2002 James Bond film, Die Another Day (starring Pierce Brosnan). In December 2009, much of the project, including both greenhouses, became available to navigate through Google Street View.

The Eden Project is said to have contributed over £1.7 billion into the local economy.

 

intu Trafford Centre, Manchester

intu Trafford Centre opened in 1998 and with 2 million square foot of retail, dining and leisure space, is one of the largest shopping centres in the United Kingdom. More than 11million people live within a 90-minute drive of the shopping centre, which attracts more than 31 million visits annually.

The design of intu Trafford Centre is Rococo/late Baroque in design, with eclectic elements of Art Deco and Egyptian Revival. There are three domed atria along the length of the mall, and the design of the middle dome is based on that of St Paul's Cathedral. intu Trafford Centre has 45,000 square metres of marble and granite flooring from Italy and gold leaf adorns the building's columns. The marble floors and handrails are polished nightly to maintain the centre's opulent appearance.

The Great Hall cost £26million and took 18 months to build. The Great Hall staircase features hundreds of metres of marble balustrade from China, modelled on the staircase from the Titanic. Overhead, made out of Chinese crystal, is what the centre claims to be the largest chandelier in the world. It’s gigantic proportions feature a built-in staircase to enable maintenance.

 

Longleat House and Safari Park, Wiltshire

Longleat is an English stately home and the seat of the Marquess of Bath.

Longleat House was built in 1580 by Sir John Thynn on the site of a dissolved priory. It took 12 years to complete and is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of Elizabethan architecture in Britain. In 1949 Longleat became the first stately home in Britain to be opened to the public on a commercial basis. The 9,800-acre estate, which also encompasses a Safari Park has been landscaped by Capability Brown and has long been one of the top British tourist attractions.

 

Longleat Safari Park opened in 1966 as the first drive-through safari park outside Africa, and is home to over 1,000 animals, including giraffe, monkeys, rhino, lion, tigers and wolves.

Longleat is occupied by Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, a direct descendant of the builder; however, the peer passed the management of the business to his son Viscount Weymouth early in 2010.

 

Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow

With more than a million visitors visiting annually, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is one of the jewels in Glasgow's cultural crown.

Since 1901 this red sandstone palace has taken pride of place by the banks of the River Kelvin, and today showcases the city's treasures as a Recognised Collection of National Significance. Kelvingrove is one of the most visited museum in the UK outside of London, thanks to its extensive and varied collections.

The museum has 22 themed galleries displaying an astonishing 8000 objects. The displays include one of the finest collections of arms and armour in the world, a vast natural history collection and many outstanding European artworks.

The most famous painting on display at Kelvingrove is the Salvador Dali masterpiece ‘Christ of St John of the Cross’. Sir Roger the Asian elephant is another big museum attraction. There is even a Spitfire plane hanging from the ceiling of the west court.

 

Wookey Hole, Somerset

Wookey Hole Caves are a series of limestone caverns in the village of Wookey Hole in Somerset, England. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest for both biological and geological reasons.

The caves have been used by humans for around 45,000 years, demonstrated by the discovery of tools from the Palaeolithic period, along with fossilised animal remains. The full extent of the cave system is still unknown with approximately 4,000 metres including 25 chambers, having been explored.

The caves are the site of the first cave dives in Britain. Since the 1930s divers have explored the extensive network of chambers developing breathing apparatus and novel techniques in the process.

The low, constant temperature of the caves means that they can be used for maturing Cheddar cheese.

The cave is noted for the Witch of Wookey Hole – a roughly human shaped stalagmite that legend says is a witch turned to stone by a monk from Glastonbury.

 

Alexandra Palace, London

Alexandra Palace is a historic entertainment venue in Alexandra Park, London. It was designed to serve as a public centre of recreation, education and entertainment and intended as "The People's Palace".

In 1936 it became the home of the world's first regular public "high-definition" television service. The original studios 'A' and 'B' still survive in the south-east wing with their producers' galleries as does the original Victorian theatre.

Alexandra Palace became a listed building in 1996. Ally Pally, as it is lovingly known, has an ambitious regeneration programme in progress to restore the Palace and open currently derelict areas of the site such as the Victorian theatre and historic BBC Studios.

The Great Hall and West Hall are typically used for exhibitions, music concerts and conferences, operated by the trading arm of the charitable trust that owns the building and park on behalf of the public. There is also a pub, ice rink and palm court.