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.
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This is something I am definitely looking forward to. I’m pretty sure November is going to be an eventful month. Millionaire is still a great show, and the fact that the questions are harder will only make the next person who does win the million truly deserving. And, it’s not like there haven’t been any BIG winners, because there have been plenty, and there will be more. On this show, the laws of probability say another millionaire will come along eventually.
Yuck i wont be watching that crap I thought the ratings was doing okay?
Too bad i get on when the show is ending in my area :(
Home, not on
it’ll be interesting to see if they consider this as a permanent thing. and think about it 3 lifelines (technically 4) for 10 questions. it sound seasier but since the questions start getting tough (for me anyway) at the 16,000 level it does little to change the game.
Wow, 1,000 syndie shows. Way to go Meredith!
(Anyone know the total ep. count counting primetime eps. with Regis and not counting Super Millionaire?)
Recently in NYC to audition for Millionaire (passed the tryout test, but waiting to see if I get in the contestant pool), got to be in the audience for the first three shows of Wedding Week (to air February 4-8); Slight Spoiler Alert - the week starting Oct. 29, someone gets to see a Million Dollar Question…the nicely funny Paul Mercurio (who did audience warmup this taping) mentioned this little tease near the end of the third episode (while in commerical, of course)…
I think I they should make this permanent..cause the first 5 questions are so easy, they are really lame. and 99% of the contestants end up getting to $1000 anyways.
Got the card back Thursday the 8th - not in the pool, so I try again some other time…