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Deal or No Deal commentary guide

STOP RIGHT THERE, CITIZEN.

In 2005, completely by accident, the Deal or No Deal commentaries were started as a voluntary thing so that people at work could still follow the game live from their workstations, when they should have been working.

We had no idea what an amazing success they would become. We have proper celebrity viewers (such as Emma Kennedy who you might remember from the Heat Magazine ads) even to, it is rumoured, The Banker himself. If anything happened that we should know about, chances are (like Sequencegate, which made the papers and gave us an exclusive message from producer Glenn Hugill) it will break here first.

KP, Gizensha, Mister Al, NJ, Billy, Gavin, Iain Weaver, David B and some others... truly, the most mightily fearsome beings ever to produce live commentaries on a stupid afternoon show on Channel 4.

But time moves on, and thanks to real life and Brian Conley (which is heavily ironic) getting in the way, it looks like there are spaces opening up for more people to join the hall of fame.

• DO YOU watch Deal or No Deal on weekday afternoons?
• DO YOU read or follow the commentaries as it happens?
• WOULD YOU like the fame, fortune and glory associated with being a Mighty Being? Although there's not much fortune, obviously.

Well, if you've been lurking, why not give it a go?

The jobs

There are three (possibly four) jobs that could do with covering for each episode. Be grown up about this, if a Mighty Being has bagsied a job for themselves, try not to argue and fill in where best you can. It's preferable that only one person perform the first three jobs each.

The jobs are as follows:

• THE BOXES - This is the most important job - if nobody else turns up, at the very least make sure this gets covered. The rest of the jobs can be filled in at a later time as long as the boxes are correct. For each selection, try and note down the box number, the box opener and the amount inside. If you wish to add other information and opinion for local colour, please go right on ahead. It would be useful if you or Stats Man could provide a run down of the eight boxes that are left at the eight box stage, for the benefit people not playing with the Stat-O-Matic.
• THE STATISTICS - You should be following the game on Harvey's Stat-O-Matic. All you need to do is click on the values as they get revealed, and the statistics will update themselves. At the end of each round, we'd like you announce the stats. You can shorten the names if you like, just so long as everything is clear.
• GENEROSITY INDEX - You can find out how to work this out in the Stats Guide.
• OBSERVATION - Anyone watching along can contribute observations and comments at any time. It's nice for the reader following to get a feel for the show. Please write using proper sentences.

The DOND commentaries are, of course, entirely voluntary and rely on the goodwill of volunteers to keep them going. We've had a great first year of them, let's hope we have a cracking second year also.