Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Kimmel Series Of Special
The late-night host shared a video of him playing a kid-centric version of the game with two of his kids, Billy, 2, and Jane, 5.Who Wants To Be A Millionaire posted a video to playlist Watch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. At its height, “Millionaire” averaged nearly 30 million viewers an episode, and fueled ABC to the top of the ratings heap.Jimmy Kimmel has gotten some family help to plug the return of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which will feature him as host and celebrities playing for charity. It returned as an additional series of special events in the 1999-2000 TV season, then as a regular series. A 20th anniversary edition of Millionaire will premiere in April, featuring cBased on a British format, “Millionaire” originally bowed on ABC in summer 1999 as a special, and quickly roared to the top of the Nielsen ratings. The latest installment saw celebrities put their intellectual acuity on display, vying for the 1 million prize, as they played to raise money for charities close to their hearts.Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is returning to ABC, this time with Jimmy Kimmel at the helm. ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ returned for Season 2 with Jimmy Kimmel as the host only a few months after concluding its original season.
“Millionaire” ran for just three seasons on ABC, returning for specials in 20. It didn’t take long for ABC to overexpose the show, running it as often as five times a week. (Philbin recently re-created that moment in time on the show for a November episode of ABC’s 1990s-set “Fresh Off the Boat.”)But “Millionaire’s” primetime success was ultimately short-lived. Philbin’s catch phrase on the show — “Is that your final answer?” — remains a part of the lexicon, even today. It was a huge win for the then-William Morris Agency and its agents Ben Silverman and Greg Lipstone, who brokered the deal in the U.S.The success of “Millionaire” also helped kick off the 2000s reality TV craze, which soon included entries such as CBS’ “Survivor.” And it turned Regis Philbin (and his monochromatic outfits) into a pop culture icon.
And the India “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” made famous by the film “Slumdog Millionaire,” has aired on and off since 2000. The German edition of “Millionaire” has continuously aired on RTL since 1999, while an Australian edition has been running since that same year. The new edition of “Millionaire” will be produced by Sony Pictures TV’s Embassy Row, Kimmelot and Valleycrest Prods.“Millionaire” isn’t just experiencing a revival in the U.S.: The show recently returned to the U.K., on ITV, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, while it also has come back via local editions in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Argentina, Chile and Croatia.
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