Deal or No Deal (Tunisian game show)

Deal or No Deal has a version airing in Tunisia, called Dlilek Mlek (دليلك ملك), which is broadcast on the Tunisian National television channel Tunisian TV 1 and was hosted by Sami Fehri between 2005 and 2007.[1] It is in Arabic. The top prize was 300,000 Tunisian dinars (about US$124,000) in the first edition, 500,000 dinars (US$206,000) in the second, 1,000,000 dinars (US$412,000) in the third and current versions and 2,000,000 dinars (US$830,000) during Ramadan 2017. The lowest prize is 100 milimes (0.1 dinar, about 7¢ US). The 24 boxes represent 24 governorates of Tunisia.

Deal or No Deal
ArabicDlilek Mlek
دليلك ملك
Created byDick de Ryk
John de Mol
Presented bySami El Fihri
Country of originTunisia
No. of episodes419 (El Hiwar Ettounsi)
Production
Running time50 minutes (with commercials)
Original release
NetworkTunisie 7 (2005 – 2007)
El Hiwar Ettounsi (2014 – present)
Release2005 (2005) –
June 2018 (2018-06)

The top prize was won at least once in each edition. On March 22, 2006, Mohamed Mabrouk won 300,000 dinars.[2] On November 13, 2006, Mohamed Bashir Menchari won 500,000 dinars.[3] And on September 13, 2007, a contestant won 1,000,000 dinars.[4] Each winner shared the prize with an SMS participant.

Revival of the show is broadcast in every Ramadan on El Hiwar Ettounsi since 2014. In Ramadan 2017, the top prize is further increased to 2,000,000 dinars (US$824,000).

On June 13, 2017, Mrs. Aichoucha from Ben Arous won the top prize. However, the episode is under investigation by Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (French: Haute autorité indépendante de la communication audiovisuelle).[5][6]

On 5 March 2018 and 9 March 2018, two people won the bottom prize of 100 millimes with 5 episodes of each other.[7][8]

List of seasons

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El Hiwar Ettounsi

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Season From To No. of episodes
1 (Ramadan 2014) June 29, 2014 July 31, 2014 30
2 (Ramadan 2015) June 18, 2015 July 19, 2015 30
3 September 14, 2015 January 5, 2016 79
4 (Ramadan 2016) June 6, 2016 July 5, 2016 30
5 September 26, 2016 February 3, 2017 95
6 (Ramadan 2017) May 27, 2017 June 25, 2017 30
7 January 29, 2018 June 2018 125

Box Values

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Left Side
1st edition 2nd and 3rd 2014 2015–2018
0.1 DT
1 DT Joke prize 1
Joke prize 1 1 DT
10 DT
50 DT
Joke prize 2
100 DT
250 DT
Joke prize 3 500 DT
500 DT Joke prize 3
1,000 DT
Joke prize 4 2,000 DT Joke prize 4
Right Side
1st 2nd and 2014 3rd 2015–2017&2018 Ramadan 2017
5,000 DT
10,000 DT
15,000 DT
20,000 DT
25,000 DT
30,000 DT
50,000 DT 35,000 DT 50,000 DT
75,000 DT 50,000 DT 75,000 DT 100,000 DT
100,000 DT 200,000 DT
150,000 DT 200,000 DT 300,000 DT
200,000 DT 500,000 DT 300,000 DT 1,000,000 DT
300,000 DT 500,000 DT 1,000,000 DT 2,000,000 DT

NOTE: The lowest value is shown as 0.1 dinar on the board, but 100 millimes in box. Also, 1,000,000 dinars is written as "Milliard" (مليار), meaning "billion" in box and 2,000,000 dinars is written as "2 Milliards" (مليارات 2), meaning "2 billion".

References

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  1. ^ The Report: Tunisia 2010. Oxford Business Group. ISBN 9781907065187.
  2. ^ "Dlilek Mlak : Le gagnant des 300 MD" (Dlilek Mlak: The winner of 300,000 dinars), March 23, 2006, Babnet.net. (in French)
  3. ^ "Dlilek Mlak : Un gagnant des 500 000 dinars" (Dlilek Mlak: A winner of 500,000 dinars), November 13, 2006, Babnet.net. (in French)
  4. ^ "Dlilek Mlak: Un gagnant de 1 million de dinars !" (Dlilek Mlak: A winner of 1 million dinars!), September 13, 2007, Babnet.net (in French)
  5. ^ "La HAICA ouvrira une enquête sur l'épisode aux deux milliards de Dlilek Mlak" (The HAICA will open an investigation into the two billion Dlilek Mlak episode), June 14, 2017, HuffPost Maghreb[usurped] (in French)
  6. ^ "Dlilek Mlak: ouverture d’une enquête sur l’épisode de Aichoucha" (Dlilek Mlak: opening of an investigation into the Aichoucha episode), June 14, 2017, Réalités (in French)
  7. ^ [1] on Youtube
  8. ^ [2] on Youtube
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