Hard to believe that the little syndicated show that could, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, is going on its 1,000th episode in two weeks. Hosted by Meredith Vieira, the show has had over 1,800 contestants and has given away over $42,000,000. That total could be more but they haven’t given away a million for nearly five years. Admittedly they did make the show a lot harder after season one, but someone should be able to do it, right?
Next week they will be doing away with the first five questions and letting people be ten away from the million off the bat with $1,000 in their pockets. Personally, I’d be fine with this if they’d put the Fastest Finger back in. Just give that winner the $1,000 and let the group of ten stay for the entire week and weed through them all. I don’t expect them to do it, but just a thought. As long as we don’t become Dance Party Millionaire, but I trust Michael Davies enough to fight it. Also, if you registered in September you may be on your way to winning money, as 100 lucky home viewers will win $1,000 each.
Again, it’s been ages since the last Millionaire. I’m usually not a person who’s begging for tons of money left and right but come on. Surely someone can do this. Our good friend Ogi Ogas, one of the smartest people we know, almost did it in a heavily spoiled event last year. Disney-ABC Domestic Television may have done it again. Who knows?
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OK, for the rest of you. Yes, a million dollar question will be given next week but of course they won’t say when. We’ll have a clip up here as part of BuzzerVision next week. In Disney-ABC’s great stupidity to be like NBC, in the press release they sent they gave away the million dollar question and answer. But we aren’t that mean. You’re going to have to wait to see it. I will give you a slightly vulgar hint: It’s fucking hard. HARD.
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Edit: Fixed a tiny error at the top. It’s obviously already on its 6th season. It’s going on its thousandth episode in two weeks.
A bit ago, when we announced Australia will have their own version of Power of 10, some people said Australia will never offer anywhere near that much money. Eddie MacGuire may have proved them wrong. It was announced today that Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, in Australia, will now be played every Monday night for 80 minutes and $5,000,000. This marks the most money given away in a regular season of Millionaire, not a series of specials such as Super Millionaire. This new edition of Millionaire will be completely live and give viewers a chance to win $10,000 each night. 
Instead of creating a different post for each show, let’s just do it all in one.
Thanks to reader Dan M. for this link. The Australian edition of Temptation, which is being syndicated in the USA starting September 10th, has been canceled in favor of a weeknight return of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. No word if it’s the good regular version or the “eh” new British edition. It will be on the shelf for at least the rest of the year, which means if daily Millionaire with returning host Eddie McGuire bombs, we might be seeing Temptation back on the air. The Millionaire season is to be 40 episodes currently. The decision to bring Millionaire back was necessary to “keep the rights to the show alive”, Nine sources said yesterday.
The original British edition of the hit game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? might be facing cancellation, according to host Chris Tarrant. The show, which launched in 1998, was stripped weekly and saw audiences as high as 13 million viewers. It is now in a regular Saturday time slot and gets around 3.1 million viewers per episode. Host Chris Tarrant has stated, “Of course, next year is our tenth anniversary and we may play about with it, we might move it off Saturday nights . . . or it might be a good place to stop.” 
Imagination Games, who released the not-too-shabby Deal or No Deal and Family Feud DVD games, has announced they have been awarded the license to exclusively create the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? DVD game in a three-year deal. Currently, the game is projected to debut in Fall 2007 and retail for $19.99. The game will be hosted by current Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host Meredith Vieira. To the right is what the box art is looking like as of now. I’m a big Millionaire fan, so the more games the merrier. How long has it been since we’ve had a quality Millionaire game anyway (not counting that plug-and-play game). The only thing that I hope gets fixed is the “3 Lifelines” thing that’s on the current box art. Having Switch the Question wouldn’t be bad, but it’s not enough of a reason to bitch and moan. Be sure to pick it up when it comes out.
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