Trickbox TV Helps Take Deal Or No Deal On The Road

Trickbox TV has supplied Remarkable Television with specialist outside broadcasting facilities to take game show, Deal or No Deal, to 10 iconic and unusual locations across the UK.

For the first time in the show’s history, Noel Edmonds, the notorious phone, 22 red boxes and The Banker travelled across the country filming over a six-week period.

Trickbox TV overcame a number of challenges with complicated locations, including access restrictions and a limited timeframe onsite, which resulted in the team adapting the technical setup for each location.

The locations included: The Eden Project in Cornwall, The Trafford Centre in Manchester, on the moving Flying Scotsman train, a cave at Wookey Hole, Warwick Castle, Longleat Safari Park, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, top of the Blackpool Tower, Alexandra Palace and finally, on board a Boeing 737.

An episode was filmed in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

The production company, Remarkable Television selected Trickbox TV to provide a bespoke flyaway solution. This was because traditional outside broadcast trucks would not have worked with all of the locations.

A spokesperson at Remarkable Television commented: “Trickbox TV allowed us to be creative with the tour’s locations and the sky was quite literally the limit.”

Trickbox TV had to ensure it was able to provide Remarkable Television with a solution that enabled rigging, recording and de-rigging within a 12-hour period. The multi-camera facilities included up to seven cameras, with one wireless camera system for a Steadicam and different lenses to suit each location. Trickbox TV also provided mirrored recording backups for each programme to limit onsite DIT, plus offer a level of redundancy for the media.

Liam Laminman, managing director at Trickbox TV said: “Taking a show that has been in a studio for over 10 years into an outside broadcast environment was always going to be a challenge. It was really important that at no point, would the production team, crew or Noel, feel like the facilities that Trickbox TV provided would be a compromise from the studio facilities that they had been used to”.

The first episode will be aired on December 12 2016 on Channel 4, at 4pm.