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As the first US network game show to offer a million-dollar top prize, the show made television history by becoming one of the highest-rated game shows in the history of US television. The US Millionaire won seven Daytime Emmy Awards, and TV Guide ranked it No. 6 in its 2013 list of the 60 greatest game shows of all time.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, $1,000 [79] 5 Kevin Olmstead $2,205,901 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, $2,180,000 [58] Olmstead's primary win occurred during the progressive jackpot shows on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2001. Following this win, Olmstead held the record as the biggest winner in American television for over three years until ...
ABC brought back Millionaire in February 2004 with Philbin, retitled Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire, a related series that was aired on a more limited basis. In August 2009, Philbin hosted 11 episodes of a special edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the show. [44]
When Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? first debuted on primetime television in August 1999, fans loved watching contestants vie for a million dollar prize by answering obscure trivia questions. The ...
The season premiere of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” scored 3.71 million viewers on July 10, making it the most-watched telecast of the night among broadcasters. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel ...
The family duo of Alan Barinholtz (who played the fake judge in Amazon's 2023 reality prank TV hit "Jury Duty") and comedic actor son Ike Barinholtz hit peak "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" by ...
Meredith Louise Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an American broadcast journalist and television personality. [1] She is best known as the original moderator of the daytime talk show The View (1997–2006), the original host of the syndicated daytime version of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002–2013), and as co-host of the NBC morning news program Today (2006–2011).
In taking on “Millionaire” (which he taped this past spring), Kimmel notes that hosting a game show “is about 30 times easier than hosting a late-night talk show. For me, it is like a ...