Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

…with prime-time series such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1999–2002, 2009), Lost (2004–10), Desperate Housewives (2004–12), Grey’s Anatomy (2005– ), and Dancing with the Stars (2005– ), along with long-running daytime dramas such as One Life to Live

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, hosted by TV talk-show veteran Regis Philbin, began as a series of limited runs, functioning as a game show miniseries of sorts. In August, November, and January the show aired on consecutive nights—as many as 18 in a row.…

…of the prime-time game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

…began hosting the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. With his unabashed enthusiasm and Everyman quality, Philbin helped make the show a phenomenon in the United States and turned “Is that your final answer?” into a national catchphrase. Based on the British program of the same name, Millionaire…

included Jeopardy! (1984– ), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1999–2020), and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (2007–10, 2015, 2019– ).

Like that show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? took a gradual jackpot-increase approach. The U.K.’s Family Fortunes, which was derived from the U.S.’s Family Feud of the 1970s and ’80s, had contestants (members of two families) guess what answers had been given by most respondents in a…

…of the syndicated game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; in 2005 and 2009 she won Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on that program. In 2006 she left The View to fill a vacant coanchor seat on Today, which aired on NBC. After stepping away from that position…