Trailer for the All New “Millionaire”
By now you know all about the rules to the new version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire debuting September 13th. We recently had a talk with host Meredith Vieira about it. I was lucky enough to see the show last week (and will have something about it soon). It’s time for you to get a chance to see what you’re in for. The show provided us with a trailer of the upcoming season of the show. You can take a small look at the new set, what the game will look like, how it flows, and more. Take a look below. What do you think? I really do believe a lot of you will like the show.
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Despite your Kool-Aid drinking reply, I may give this a chance afterall. I’m sad about the music change, but it does look quite interesting.
POSSIBLE SPOILER:
What could the confetti at 0:22 indicate?
The confetti shot looks like it came from Nancy Christy’s million-dollar win, though.
That shot is from Nancy Christie’s win.
This looks interesting, I definitely be watching this season!!!!
I know the answer to that jumped question. :)
“the money is no longer tied to the difficulty of the question”? I know they are randomizing the order, but are we really going to see “duck, duck, what?” connected to $25K?
God I hope not.
I bet the first questions won’t be nearly as easy as they are now. Difficulties should progress like there are 2 question sixes, 2 level sevens etc.
Eh i don’t really like it it looks like another show is using the Millionaire set
I’ll jump watching this hot mess
I thought you hated Meredith’s Millionaire anyways?
I don’t like her version of the show i do watch time to time out of curiosity.
Millionaire jumped the shark…back when they introduced the clock. This, however, might be enough of a breath of fresh air to bring it back from its lowest point. It might not be exactly what Millionaire was before, but the essence of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is still fully intact: watching people agonize over difficult decisions based on four-answer multiple-choice questions.
I like the new graphics, particularly the shuffling money, the money ladder, and the lifelines.
Also, what music is being used in this trailer? I’d really, really, really like to get my hands on it.
Isn’t the contestant who says he wants to jump the question Scott Six, who was on during Regis’ guest hosting week?
YES! Although I don’t know for sure. I THOUGHT HE LOOKED FAMILIAR!
Keep in mind that they did “run-throughs”, he may have been invited to play the new version as a test game and that is what you saw. Considering the rules about playing twice, this is the most likely scenario as only a handful of episodes have been taped, and they really don’t want to give anything away.
The show looks very exciting now. I will actually watch it. Much better than the old one!!!!!!!!
This is not Millionaire. I’m sorry, but just call it something else. I agree that it’s an OK format change, but…unlike when Wheel of Fortune got rid of shopping, this is a complete reformatting of the game, and changes it completely. As someone else said here, it’s like another show is using the Millionaire set and they refuse to put things back the way they were.
That may not be a bad thing, seeing as it will now be easier to win $1 million now than in the past. It won’t hurt the show by reformatting it, actually, it would add more excitement to the game.
The positioning of Meredith and the contestant seems off to me; I could barely see her in some of the shots. The set seems okay, but I think that if they wanted such a drastic revamp, they should have changed everything… it just looks like they took out the Hot Seat and added a bigger screen.
I’m just not sold on the format changes, though. The vibe I got from this trailer didn’t say ‘legendary big-money game show’ to me, it said ‘minor novelty cable show.’ It felt like the feeling I get when I see the commercial for a new GSN show.
Will it be unbearable to watch? Probably not. But I feel that the show’s best days are behind it now.
that’s the thing…I feel like everyone thinks they need to do something to recapture the days of the old. There’s almost no way at all to bring back the best days. To me, it’s a major duh the best days are behind it. Everyone should know that. The point with these changes isn’t to bring the best days back, but, with last year’s format, the game was going to die a quicker death than it should and it has plenty of life in it still and these changes, I think, are the way to keep it going for many more years. It’ll NEVER be the best days again. With that in mind, these changes are great.
I tried out this summer and didn’t make the final cut. I was disappointed then, but now I’m kind of glad. That’s not because I hate these changes (I’m a firm believer in waiting a month before passing judgment) but because there’s an entirely new strategy now, and I haven’t been able to figure out what mine is.
Seems to me, though, that any contestant who would generally make it up to the top tier wouldn’t care about his bank going into the final four. As such, with the production team making such a big deal about this new randomization, it can only lead me to believe that we’ll just have a bunch of people leaving by Q 10. Frankly, I do want to see people (not everyone) go into the upper tier with a chance that they’ll make it to the end. We’ll see how this pans out!
Also, I thought that Qs would still be tied to the $ amount – they would be shuffled with the $ amounts. Guess not!
Did you remove the trailer due to the show or just to have everyone lose it as to what it looks like? if its the latter, im going to get angry. im being as patient as possible to see this new format, but its getting difficult.
also, is there another way to see the trailer?
It’s just television, there’s really no reason to get angry or “lose it”.
I was asked to take it down momentarily. A new trailer is being cut. The show has provided all video to me. They let me get away with murder and the least I can do is listen to what they ask.
Is this perhaps of that odd line (paraphrasing), “The value of the question is no longer tied to the difficulty of the question?” That seemed a little incorrect since the $25k question will still be harder than the $100 question, from my understanding (taking the extreme cases).
*Is this perhaps DUE to that odd line…
No, the dollar value and the question difficulty are independent. An easy question may be worth $25,000. A hard question may be worth $100. It’s all random now.
Think of it this way: there would be no point in randomization if you could figure out the dollar amount based on the difficulty of the question.
AHA!
SO glad I SAVED the video this time.
After the 2nd video also got taken down.
I’m watching it over and over :)
Alex, the dollar value and question difficulty being independent is the central problem with this format. Watching a contestant struggle for five solid minutes on a super-hard question and going with their gut, only to find their extreme brain exercise got them a paltry $100, is NOT good television.
Same goes for super-easy questions worth the highest amounts. It isn’t drama, and it isn’t exciting. It’s a trainwreck waiting to happen…which may be the point.
Besides that, the dollar value and question difficulty being independent reeks badly of the whole 50:50 mess in its last 1-2 seasons (remember all the times a contestant struggled between two answers, then used the 50:50? “Computer, please randomly eliminate two of the wrong answers”, which more often than not left the two answers the contestant had stated s/he was struggling between).
Put simply, if the producers want the contestant to win, they simply slot the easiest questions first for the biggest money. If they want the contestant to lose, simply batter him/her with all the super-hard questions first for the smallest amounts.
Because of that, I honestly don’t know whether the show is trying to save money or give more away…and, IMO, it leaves the door open to something awfully close to what certain games did in the 1950s…and what “Our Little Genius” may well have done.
To clarify, some people (myself included) don’t think the 50:50 “computer” was actually a computer, because the aforementioned “left the two answers the contestant was struggling between” happened way too many times to be a mere coincidence.
As such, I am not inclined to believe that the new “computer” in charge of randomizing the question difficulty and dollar amounts is actually a computer.
To quote NewsRadio, you have more paranoid delusions than Stephen King on crack. Seriously, there is no rigging. I promise. I think some people want it to happen more than anything just to be proven correct. It’s random. There are lawyers crawling all over that set. It’s random.
I’m one of the only two or three around here who has actually seen the new show. The independent figures is fine. Watching the battle with a hard question for little money is fine because it’s more often than not immediately justified by an easy question for a ton. In all the games I saw no one was awarded money for just lucking out and got away with it, and if you played well and answered your hard questions you ended up winning more than you would in the old format.
I know people won’t because people like to panic for reasons I’m not sure of, but trust me. It works.
Just to clarify the 50/50–it was not random in the beginning (Regis primetime shows). The two were predetermined so whatever the contestant may have said would’ve meant nothing anyway, but it was considered to be part of the writing of the question to predetermine the 50/50 answers.
Because of the phrasing, and I’m sure for other reasons, the 50/50 BECAME random at some point during the Regis run, and before the syndicated version. Yes, it was random, but what many viewers don’t realize is that to get there, you have to pass the test, and are therefore a good trivia player. So when the two answers were what the contestant was thinking, that only meant the contestant had one of the right answers anyway, so that means they had a 1/3 chance of having the incorrect answer in their thoughts.
Really, did anyone ever track stats on how much it happened, or are there several out there who just like to complain without anything to back themselves up?
I think it’s one of those things where it “felt” like it happened a lot more than it did. I remember that Bobbo from Super Millionaire had the same reservations about the randomness. It did eliminate one of the two answers he thought of, though. He guessed the other one, was right, and received $100,000 for his trouble.
Thinking about the changes a bit more, and what you’ve said, I really can’t find fault with it. Sure, the Hot Seat is gone, but from everything I’ve heard getting rid of it was actually a good idea. My only, albeit very minor, gripe now is that the show doesn’t seem to be in HD.
Considering that, and the trailer you had up, I’m now looking forward to the new season — not as a trainwreck, but as a freshening-up. :-)
If I am proven wrong, then I shall admit defeat. But I honestly don’t think this is all that interesting. And NOW I shall stop making posts…sorry.
I hope you stop posting on the internet.
I for one have grown a little fond to the format (even tho i still like a clock for it and im a lil edgy on music and all) bcuz of the nerve-wrecking moments, the nail-biting questions and the twist and turns that the show started with. and i know im overreacting on this. its just ive seen this show since it started with Regis at the start (and i was only a little kid then) and ive seen it over time and ive grown fond to it.
Why has the video been removed? Because of a few fanbois here getting their panties in a wad?
Oh hell, put it back up and block their ip. Problem solved
Just to let you know, the video is up on the official Millionaire website, although it’s after the “This Week on Millionaire” video.
It’s also up on Millionaire’s Facebook page. Oh and Alex also put it back up.
I can’t see the video…
What’s the difference between this video and the old one?
VERY little. The person in the clip that shows the 4-stage “Classic Millionaire” tier is a different contestant.
the Millionare site was updated with the rules- and the good news is no one walks away empty-handed now. A miss in the first 10 questions still gets you a $1,000 consolation…
http://www.dadt.com/millionaire/auditions/rules.html
The Millionaire Website has a new online version that you can play to experience the new game. Pretty interesting…totally changes things.
I would like to check out this new season to see all the changes but our local TV Station that used to carry Millionaire has dropped it and no other station has picked it up.Is there a place on-line where I can watch this season’s episodes?