The popular television game show
Let's Make A Deal continues throughout the world -- forty-eight years
after its debut on the NBC Television Network on December 30, 1963!
Broadcasters in Europe and
Asia have produced their own versions of Let's Make A Deal - to the
delight of their contestants and viewers. And now CBS network has an all-new version of Let's Make A Deal!
LET'S MAKE A DEAL! ON CBS
An all-new version of LET'S
MAKE A DEAL debuted on the CBS network in October, 2009. Produced by
Fremantle Media, the hour-long daytime series is hosted by Wayne Brady.
In a 2009 interview, Monty
Hall said: “We are delighted to have Let’s Make a Deal back on the air
with CBS. I know the audience is going to welcome the charming and engaging
Wayne Brady as the new host." And Wayne Brady commented: “I am
honored and ready to go; it is not every day that you get to be a part of a
franchise like Let’s Make a Deal. I think it is a perfect fit.”
JUNE, 2009 -
GSN HONORS MONTY HALL --
THE
GAME SHOW AWARDS:
On June 6, an awards show aimed at celebrating excellence in the genre of games honored classic and contemporary game
shows, with a special tribute to Monty Hall and a guest appearance by
Carol
Merrill.
You
can play the LET'S MAKE A DEAL at home - for fun and a large dose of nostalgia - with the
Let's Make A Deal DVD Game featuring Monty Hall and clips of
Let's Make A Deal shows broadcast in the 1970's and 1980's . From
IMAGINATION - a new way to play Let's Make A Deal!
Stay alert and you'll catch a glimpse of vintage Let's Make a
Deal playing in the background of movies set in the 1960's and 1970's.
Some of the films which were enlivened by a clip of Let's Make a Deal are
listed on our Movies page.
For information about recent
appearances by Monty Hall
click on the
News
link - and for the latest theories about "The Monty
Hall Problem" - click on the Trivia link.
A Brief History ...
Let's Make A Deal is a creation of Stefan Hatos and
Monty Hall. Carol Merrill and Jay Stewart performed on the
show through 1977. The television production has been broadcast by NBC and ABC
television networks, as well as many channels throughout the country on a syndication
basis.
Re-runs of the original telecasts have been shown on various cable channels.
Since 2001 the Game Show Network has broadcast classic episodes
of Let's Make A Deal from the 1970's and 1980's.
And Trato Hecho (a Spanish-language
version of Let's Make A Deal) was broadcast in 2005 on Univision stations
throughout the U.S.
Since the early 1990's FremantleMedia has licensed foreign
language versions of Let's Make A Deal
in countries throughout the world, including France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Spain and Turkey.
Shuffle Master began distribution of an interactive Let's Make A Deal
Slot Machine in 1998 - and in 2004, IGT produced a new Let's Make A Deal Video Slot Machine:
Several State Lotteries have featured Let's Make A Deal on
their scratcher games ...
In 2006 - Let's Make A Deal was part of the
Game Show Marathon in
which recreations of
vintage game shows were broadcast in primetime on the CBS network.
In March
2003 NBC aired a U.S. revival in primetime which
was hosted by Billy Bush and produced by Monty Hall Enterprises and Renegade 83.
Home Games of the show have been
marketed since the early 1960's by Milton Bradley and Ideal Toys. In 1998, Tiger Electronics introduced
an "Electronic Let's Make A
Deal" ... a modest precursor to today's DVD game by Imagination.
In 1999, BuyBidWin.com licensed the internet rights from Let's Make A Deal
and launched a website featuring Monty Hall.
Live productions of the show have appeared throughout the U.S. with host Tim Wise of "Let's
Make a Deal on the Road" - for the latest developments, visit Tim's website at
www.letsmakeadeallive.com.
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