Weekly Aussie “Millionaire” for $5,000,000
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.
“This is the most exciting show for me to come back on air with – I really enjoy Millionaire and to up the ante with the $5 million is great news,” McGuire said yesterday. This new version will start on Monday, October 22nd.
Good news for Australian Temptation fans. The US version might be a flaming piece of shit, but the Aussie version will be staying on the air. It will now be on Tuesdays through Fridays at 7PM, which means I’m guessing Millionaire will be Mondays at that time. All of these changes are under new Nine Network boss David Gyngell. I know we have some fans of those versions of the show here, as well as some Aussie readers, so at least you have a big of good news today.
It’s more than likely Channel Nine will give Millionaire their old slot, 8.30pm Monday nights. It was reported over the weekend they have decided to drop 1 Vs 100 six weeks early on the basis of low ratings. The 7pm slot is only slotted for a 30 minute show.
It’s not the first time they have done it live. They always did the celebrity specials live back then. However a two hour special did stretch to three.
Lucky Aussies I hope it don’t turn out like the Dance Party British version. I think there pushing it a little airing it 80 mins? Im just jealous that they are airing the same version with the same host and same format. I wish they could bring it back with Regis here
Temptation sucks here but im happy to see Australia is bringing it back lucky them. I’m jealous of them
Here’s my guess for the new money tree:
***$5,000,000***
*$2,500,000
*$1,000,000
*$500,000
*$250,000
***$100,000***
*$75,000
*$50,000
*$25,000
*$10,000
***$5,000***
*$3,000*
*$2,000*
*$1,000*
*$500*