Tonight’s a very important and interesting night for NBC.  Basically their sole savior regular series at this point, Deal or No Deal, returns at 8:00PM ET.  There are some special things coming along with it for the premiere, like an updated set, new look for the models, a “new” text at home game, but most importantly the Million Dollar Mission, which adds a million dollar case to the game every time it’s not won in the previous game.  The contestant is starting with four today.  And I’d just be sure to watch in the next few days also, if I were you.  Just a friendly warning.

What makes it interesting is that NBC promoted the show a ton over the Olympics which had gigantic viewing audiences.  Deal fizzled out big time during the course of the Winter 2008 season.  Many people were calling it dead because of over saturation, but this happens every single season and it rebounds in the upcoming Fall.  But will it this season?  Especially with the syndicated version coming, are we nearing massive overkill from viewing, or a death from too many lousy gimmicks?  Deal will only be airing Mondays for the first few weeks of the Fall season and will expand once some show fails which knowing NBC won’t take too long.

Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think of the new season.  This will go in the show review page, so be as angry and objective as you want.  And just a warning: if you are not a fan of spoilers, I would turn off every second of the show that isn’t actual game footage.