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Post by ladykelsey on Aug 18, 2013 3:16:02 GMT -5
I first started seeing Who Wants To Be A Millionaire when I was around thirteen years old when it first came out and I remember how addicting it was and when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire would come on I would never miss it and I loved Who Wants To Be A Millionaire so much that I even had the computer games and the toughest Who Wants To Be A Millionaire computer game I had was the second edition game and I remember crying in tears for days when I couldn't win the million which I finally did a few days later. In fact when I got my first Nintendo Gameboy Advance one of the first games I bought for it was Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and it was so cool. Then when I turned sixteen I auditioned for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Play It in Disneyland as a contestant and it was fun and not only that I had Who Wants To Be A Millionaire socks clothing and a baseball cap and I developed a crush on Regis Philbin and my room was covered with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire posters and Regis posters on my wall and now today I still see Who Wants To Be A Millionaire sometimes but it will always be the start of my game show obsession, Kelsey
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Sept 8, 2013 11:06:07 GMT -5
I like both Regis and Meredith, in their own ways. Meredith seemed to really connect with the contestants, and while Regis could be hammy at times, I found him to be entertaining.
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Post by tpirrules1972 on Sept 8, 2013 12:26:06 GMT -5
I liked Meredith but I've hardly tuned in since they changed to the shuffle format and made the game unrecognizable.
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Sept 8, 2013 23:24:08 GMT -5
Meredith was Ok. Regis is my absolute favorite. He was more entertaining
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Post by ladykelsey on Sept 13, 2013 0:36:29 GMT -5
Today I happened to see the new season of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with Cedric The Entertainer and based on what I saw I cannot believe what Who Wants To Be A Millionaire has done to improve the show and I can't believe that Cedric The Entertainer is now the new star of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire but in my eyes he has made the show a weak success and I cannot figure out why he was chosen to replace Meredith Veira in the role as host. I mean I liked Cedric The Entertainer in the movies Barbershop and my favorite movie Johnson Family Vacation but as the star of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire I found him very surprising and shocking that he is weak as the star. But other than that they managed to keep the fun of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire alive even with a new host it still remains one of the top shows in syndication, What did you think of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire's new season?, Kelsey
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Oct 2, 2013 17:38:26 GMT -5
I think Cedric could stand to work on the shouting he does a bit; but other than that, I don't have any real problems with his hosting.
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Post by antmanb on Nov 14, 2013 19:05:47 GMT -5
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Post by Mandoli on Nov 14, 2013 22:08:00 GMT -5
I thought the name sounded familiar... Unless I'm completely off on that.
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Post by sshuffield70 on Nov 15, 2013 23:37:21 GMT -5
Nope, he's not the first. That would be Norm MacDonald. (He bailed, but would have had it if he said "final answer".)
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Post by antmanb on Nov 16, 2013 0:39:41 GMT -5
Nope, he's not the first. That would be Norm MacDonald. (He bailed, but would have had it if he said "final answer".) i think they mean on the syndicated version.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Nov 23, 2013 6:41:06 GMT -5
This was a really fun and exciting game. Love Chip also. He's great on Nashville. And the bumper question for his first eppy on the show was a shoutout to his run on $ale of the Century!
Seems like more and more players are getting to round 2. Definitely a good thing.
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Post by Kaos on Nov 29, 2013 9:43:39 GMT -5
I also liked Chip on Whose Line is it Anyway?
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Post by thekid965 on Jan 27, 2014 14:48:59 GMT -5
...in its country of origin, that is. Next Tuesday (4 February), ITV will present the final "real" edition of the show that kicked off the million-dollar craze and almost singlehandedly changed the genre, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It will be a celebrity special, as all the recent British shows have been (civilian-contestant episodes ended back in 2012), with three teams of two celebs playing the game for charity. That will be the end of Millionaire as an actual game show, but later in February there will be a legitimate series finale of the "clip show" variety, looking back at over fifteen years of the famous quizzer. Millionaire began in 1998 as the supposed "ultimate challenge" to would-be trivia masters: Just answer fifteen multiple-choice questions, each one theoretically more difficult than the last, to win ever-increasing sums of money all the way up to what was at the time the richest prize ever offered on a television game show. It was very much a latter-day recreation of the iconic $64,000 Question from the Big Money Quiz Show Era, to the point of even using identical values for its middle-stage questions (the £1K-£2K-£4K-£8K-£16K-£32K-£64K levels), only without an isolation booth or the looming shadow of the 1950s scandals. Staged as a two-week special event on ITV, it quickly became a sensation and made instant catchphrases out of "lifelines," "I'd like to Phone a Friend," and of course, "Is that your final answer?" Versions of Millionaire have appeared in virtually every country with commercial televison, including our own little corner of the globe (premiering in August 1999 on ABC with Regis Philbin as host). Perhaps no other game show of the past three or four decades, with the possible exception of Wheel of Fortune, has done so much to change the way the genre is presented on TV -- the dramatic music playing in the background at all times, the sweeping camera angles, the Vari-Lite™ effects and other mood lighting on the set, the tight closeups on contestant and host as they both try to talk their way through a given conundrum... all of it started with Millionaire, and it has been widely copied ever since to the point where they are now all but standard accountreménts for a TV game show. It even inspired a major motion picture ( Slumdog Millionaire). And of course, it broke the seven-digit barrier for game show top prizes, paving the way for everything from Deal or No Deal to even The Price is Right's periodic Million Dollar Spectaculars of the Aughties. An article about the impending demise of the show that started it all is here. (Disclaimer for non-UK readers: The Daily Mirror is generally considered a tabloid with the approximate journalistic credibility of the National Examiner. However, puff pieces like this one are usually fine. Besides, Chris Tarrant does offer a possible reason why so few contestants these days seem as willing to go for the million as in the past -- one that I haven't heard floated before, but if you think about it, he makes quite a bit of sense.)
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Post by ladykelsey on Jan 31, 2014 19:24:46 GMT -5
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is ending in England? What a surprise because I knew that Chris Tarrant had retired from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to host a late night talk show that's still going strong and that ITV replaced Chris Tarrant with another host {like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire did in America with Cedric The Entertainer} But for all those people living in the UK this will be a sad day in the game show world because it's hard to believe that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire had been a sensation for fifteen years in England and will go out with a wonderful swan song and maybe in America we will have a tribute on our Who Wants To Be A Millionaire show to honor this day, Wouldn't it be wonderful?, Kelsey
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Jan 31, 2014 21:24:54 GMT -5
Wow. The end of an era. I enjoyed a lot of what I saw of the UK version on YouTube. At first I thought this was about our version, got a little scared for a second.
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