Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
About Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is the multi-award winning television show which launched on ITV1 in the UK on September 4th 1998 and is hosted by Chris Tarrant.
Ten contestants face the "Fastest Finger First" round where they must race to rearrange four answers into the correct order. Whoever does so in the quickest time goes through to the Hotseat to play for the incredible top prize of £1 Million!
In the high-pressure Hotseat, the contestant faces a money tree of increasingly difficult general knowledge questions.
The contestant has three Lifelines: Phone-A-Friend, Ask The Audience and 50:50 - and two "safe havens" where money they've earned is protected.
At any point, having viewed a question, the contestant can choose to walk away with any money they've won. But if they decide to play, and tell the host, "That's my final answer", then their answer will either take them through to the next question worth double the previous question, or send them out of the Hotseat with their winnings plummeting by thousands!
There have been 5 million pound winners in the UK: Judith Keppel, David Edwards, Robert Brydges, Pat Gibson and Ingram Wilcox.
In the celebrity specials celebrities play in pairs to win for their chosen charities. Celebrities that have been in the Hotseat include: George Michael, Simon Cowell, Jonathan Ross, Sir Terry Wogan, Piers Morgan, Lord Sugar, Will Young, Carol Vorderman, David Haye, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen, Dermot O'Leary, Lesley Garrett, Paul O'Grady, Paddy McGuinness and Peter Kay.
In February 2006 Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie reached the million pound question. This turned out to be flawed, so they were invited back to play another million pound question, from which they walked away.
Comments
please put subtitles on ALL of the Millionaire episodes that are shown. because it feels empty watching it recorded on Sky with just 'W' for widescreen, or when it's earlier episodes, with nothing there, for 'stereo', when they are not in widescreen as they are all in the other aspect ratio. and there are many people out there with hearing difficulties who are great fans of the show and would greatly appreciate being given subtitle services on all of the episodes. Thanks for listening.
Yours Sincerely, Darren Monaghan (Millionaire fan #1)
Darren Monaghan 28 August 2012
Really looking forward to series 1, 2, 3 and 4 being confirmed and shown presumably in New Year sometime :) good work Challenge!!!!!!! Keep it up!!!!!
Darren Monaghan 01 October 2012
any closer to obtaining series 1, 2, 3 and 4 yet? Please tell me something
Darren Monaghan 12 January 2013
Please, show some episodes from series 13, those were my most favourite episodes from Millionaire, and most classic epsiodes ever!
Yusuf Kassim 09 February 2013
I wonder if you have screened April 2004 when I was on the show almost got into the hot seat and maybe will be going back again who knows hope you can help?
Stevie Ocean
Stevie Ocean 14 February 2013
Steve, Challenge hasn't shown 2004 episodes of Classic Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 3 and a half years. I really wish they would re-licence them even if it is only for a short period of time. I miss them, and would love to watch them again, as I have only seen those episodes only once before, and can't remember anything specifically about them. Challenge, please re-licence series 15, 16, and 17 of Classic Millionaire (episodes from 2004 and 2005)
Tony Monaghan 19 April 2013
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