Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
- Serie de TV
- 1998–
- 1h
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La versión original británica del popular concurso, que se convirtió en un fenómeno mundial.La versión original británica del popular concurso, que se convirtió en un fenómeno mundial.La versión original británica del popular concurso, que se convirtió en un fenómeno mundial.
- Ganó 1 premio BAFTA
- 17 premios ganados y 3 nominaciones en total
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I have watched Who Wants To Be a Millionaire since it first started in 1998 and is now usually shown only on Saturday evenings and is one of the very few things worth watching on Saturdays. The problem is that it usually clashes with the only decent Saturday evening programme, Casualty. What I normally do is set the video for Millionaire and watch it another evening.
Chris Tarrent has hosted it from the start and his catchphrases like "We don't want to give that" have become very well known.
Four people have won £1 million since it started and no doubt there will be more millionaires in the future.
Chris Tarrent has hosted it from the start and his catchphrases like "We don't want to give that" have become very well known.
Four people have won £1 million since it started and no doubt there will be more millionaires in the future.
This was a good show. It started off and for like the next 6 months it ROCKED! But, unfortunately ITV obviously milked this show too much by putting it on too often! The show became very monotonus and predictable (stand up Chris Tarrant! lol) My theory is that ITV should have sheduled this show at like once a week (maybe on a Saturday!) then people like me wouldn't have got so bored with it so easily. Shame. 8/10
It was a great show in the early years but lost alot of sparkle. Like him or not Clarkson is a great host in this show.
When WWTBAM was first broadcast in Britian it was the main talking point in the country . What a brilliant but simple idea for a TV quiz , answer 15 consecutive multiple choice questions with the difficulty in questions going up alongside the money . The nation started copying Chris Tarrant`s catchphrases: " Phone a friend , 50-50 " etc and what a quiz master Tarrant was as he continually put the contestants off :
Nervous contestant : I think it`s B Chris . I`ll play . B
Tarrant : You sure ? You`ll lose 15, 000 pound if you`re wrong . You`ve still got two lifelines left . 15,000 pound . You`ll loose that . Two lifelines you can use them if you want
Then the nervous contestant would waste his last two life lines
Tarrant : Final answer ? The correct answer is B . So you were right all along
Cut to nervous contestant who`s just realised Tarrant has cost him his last two lifelines .
Yeah this was a great show as was its format of being on 8 consecutive nights then off air for about 6 weeks then on for another 8 consecutive nights but then ITV decided to put on 3 times a week from late Summer to late Spring WWTBAM never seemed to off the screens which meant a lot of people including myself became very fed up with it . The producers vainly tried to spice it up with charity editions and couples editions before switching to showing only one episode a week , but too late they`d milked the idea for what it was worth and that`s what killed the show along with Tarrant spending too much time talking to the contestants and it`s only a matter of time before it`s cancelled for good
R.I.P WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
Nervous contestant : I think it`s B Chris . I`ll play . B
Tarrant : You sure ? You`ll lose 15, 000 pound if you`re wrong . You`ve still got two lifelines left . 15,000 pound . You`ll loose that . Two lifelines you can use them if you want
Then the nervous contestant would waste his last two life lines
Tarrant : Final answer ? The correct answer is B . So you were right all along
Cut to nervous contestant who`s just realised Tarrant has cost him his last two lifelines .
Yeah this was a great show as was its format of being on 8 consecutive nights then off air for about 6 weeks then on for another 8 consecutive nights but then ITV decided to put on 3 times a week from late Summer to late Spring WWTBAM never seemed to off the screens which meant a lot of people including myself became very fed up with it . The producers vainly tried to spice it up with charity editions and couples editions before switching to showing only one episode a week , but too late they`d milked the idea for what it was worth and that`s what killed the show along with Tarrant spending too much time talking to the contestants and it`s only a matter of time before it`s cancelled for good
R.I.P WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
Buy a Casio Calculator - in 1981 for step-daughter - play with it for five minutes, multiply 1x2, 2x2, 4x2 and so on.., realize that got past one million quick - with just twenty multiplications, recheck, what a great idea for a board game, I'll call it 'Millionaire'. Start with a £ or a $ and become a Millionaire.
There will be Q&A., Chance it Cards, Bank it Cards, Risk it Cards and Lifelines at £1,000, £32,000 and £64,000 - in each corner of the board.
Why not create a format of the concept for TV. Add a few more additions like, Phone-in - to get on the show, FFF., in this case, Fastest Foot First, because there is a floor. Questions and Answers, a Hot Seat - one to one, etc. It's so simple everyone will love it, I'll send it to a couple of TV companies to see if they are interested, how about, Celador and ITV? No, no luck there. Oh! It looks like they did like it in the end, but my name is not on it, why is that? Oh! I see, someone else created it, in fact, three others known as the the 'Dream Team' created it, at the same time as me. What a Bummer! What a coincidence as well? They must have some real un-doctored documents to prove they created it BEFORE me surely, don't they? Lets' ask them. No. Well that is strange don't you think? Not even one credible document? No, you were told no, but, they did create it. Well, I suppose, three against one, and of course, Celador and ITV say it was them. Not a lot one can do because they now have all the money earned from it and some even have had awards bestowed upon them.
It wasn't such a bad idea in the end was it? Thank you John, lots of people did enjoy it... and thank you Casio.
Incidentally, the Celador and ITV TV Pilot started with One Pound exactly the same as my format. It was painfully slow and needed to change.
The great phrase, 'Phone a Friend', did not come from me. I wish it had.
The person who coined that phrase was Mr Tim Boone. It was taken from his TV format called 'Help' which was presented to ITV at the same time as my concept, 'Millionaire', ITV used it, without his say-so, I believe.
Thought I should try to put the record straight - as no one else will.
And life goes on...
There will be Q&A., Chance it Cards, Bank it Cards, Risk it Cards and Lifelines at £1,000, £32,000 and £64,000 - in each corner of the board.
Why not create a format of the concept for TV. Add a few more additions like, Phone-in - to get on the show, FFF., in this case, Fastest Foot First, because there is a floor. Questions and Answers, a Hot Seat - one to one, etc. It's so simple everyone will love it, I'll send it to a couple of TV companies to see if they are interested, how about, Celador and ITV? No, no luck there. Oh! It looks like they did like it in the end, but my name is not on it, why is that? Oh! I see, someone else created it, in fact, three others known as the the 'Dream Team' created it, at the same time as me. What a Bummer! What a coincidence as well? They must have some real un-doctored documents to prove they created it BEFORE me surely, don't they? Lets' ask them. No. Well that is strange don't you think? Not even one credible document? No, you were told no, but, they did create it. Well, I suppose, three against one, and of course, Celador and ITV say it was them. Not a lot one can do because they now have all the money earned from it and some even have had awards bestowed upon them.
It wasn't such a bad idea in the end was it? Thank you John, lots of people did enjoy it... and thank you Casio.
Incidentally, the Celador and ITV TV Pilot started with One Pound exactly the same as my format. It was painfully slow and needed to change.
The great phrase, 'Phone a Friend', did not come from me. I wish it had.
The person who coined that phrase was Mr Tim Boone. It was taken from his TV format called 'Help' which was presented to ITV at the same time as my concept, 'Millionaire', ITV used it, without his say-so, I believe.
Thought I should try to put the record straight - as no one else will.
And life goes on...
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- TriviaThe first UK winner of the jackpot was Judith Keppel in 2000. She correctly identified Henry II as the English husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and subsequently became a regular on Eggheads (2003).
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Self - Host: What do you do for a living, mate?
Phone a Friend: I'm disabled.
Self - Host: THAT'S FANTASTIC!
- ConexionesEdited into Who Wants to Steal a Million? (2003)
- Bandas sonorasWho Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Written by Keith Strachan and Matthew Strachan
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