On 20 August, it was announced that Nine's nightly quiz show Temptation would be rested for the remainder of the year and replaced with nightly half-hour editions of Millionaire to be aired between 7:00 and 7:30 pm However, with the return of David Gyngell to the CEO role in September he immediately announced that a new version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? would be broadcast live to air from 7:00 pm for 90 minutes on Monday night and that Temptation would be run on Tuesday to Friday nights from 7:00 pm. 100 until poor ratings forced the hiatus of the program in October 2007. With the resignation officially taking effect on 30 June 2007, McGuire continued hosting 1 vs. This was followed up with McGuire announcing on that he would be resigning as CEO of the Nine Network, and would be taking on a new position in programming services, as well as more on-screen roles. On 29 January 2007, McGuire returned to working in front of the camera, hosting the Australian version of the quiz show, 1 vs. Tony Egan of Wagga Wagga, NSW, who won $32,000. However, unlike The AFL Footy Show where McGuire was replaced with Garry Lyon and James Brayshaw, the network could not find a suitable replacement. As a result of this, McGuire had to sacrifice his on-air commitments. On 9 February 2006, it was announced that McGuire would become the new CEO of the Nine Network, filling a vacancy created by the departure of David Gyngell in May 2005. In 2001, an episode featuring Survivor winner Richard Hatch incorrectly answering his fourth question (see below) was also shown in the United States. At the time, the Australian version did both has two top prize winners. In April 2003, the British episode in which Charles Ingram cheated all the way to the top prize was aired on the Nine Network, featuring Ingram's run in its entirety, and watched by over two million Australians. The 11 March 2002 episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? scored a national audience of 1.51 million, just under 200,000 more than what The Weakest Link: The Mole Special achieved on the same night. As well, the Fastest Finger First segment from 1999 until 2003 required the ten contestants to give a correct answer as quickly as possible before reverting to the international standard of rules in 2004 where contestants had to order the four options in a row. where?" had Collingwood offered as a D joke (this being a reference to Eddie McGuire being president of the Collingwood Football Club). In the first few seasons, some questions often had a joke answer for the D choice (as with the US version of the show), for example, the question "The 80s band with the hit song 'Relax' was Frankie goes to. Later still, the contestants playing the fastest finger had to rank the four options in the correct order (as per the question), to avoid people winning Fastest Finger on a guess. The fastest finger later on, instead of giving out one answer, two answers had to be given out to avoid any random guessing from happening. As a result, another question was asked but neither of them got it right, so another question was asked. This was the first country to have a fastest-finger round where two people answered the fastest at the same time. This incarnation turned out to be a ratings failure, and it lasted for only one week. This move was designed specifically to arrest declining ratings in Nine's Sydney market, where its once-dominant news bulletin was starting to be challenged by the rival Seven News in the ratings. The show ran in the Monday 8:30 pm time slot between 19 except for a brief two-week period in 2004 where a shortened half-hour edition was put up against Seven's Deal or No Deal in the 5:30 pm time slot leading into the 6:00 pm evening news. In the 2007 revision of the show, the new maximum prize money on offer is $5 million however, in the 2010 revision the top prize reverted to $1 million. īeginning with an eleven-question format starting at $1,000, this was later changed to 15 and offered a top prize of $1 million. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Debuted in Australia on 18 April 1999 on the Nine Network and was hosted by Eddie McGuire. 5.8 Controversies and other notable events.The show was based on and follows the same general format of the original version of the show from the United Kingdom, and is part of the international Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? franchise. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is an Australian television game show which would offer a maximum cash prize of $1,000,000 for answering 15 successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty.
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