Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | |
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Also known as | Millionaire |
Genre | Game show |
Created by | David Briggs Steven Knight Mike Whitehill |
Directed by | Peter Ots |
Presented by | Eddie McGuire |
Composers | Keith Strachan (1999–2006, 2021) Matthew Strachan (1999–2006, 2021) Ramon Covalo (2007, 2010, 2021) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 14 (original) 1 ($5 Million) 1 (Whizz Kids) 1 (Special Events) |
No. of episodes | 292 (original) 6 ($5 Million) 2 (Whizz Kids) 4 (Special Events) |
Production | |
Production locations | GTV-9, Richmond, Victoria (1999–2007) Docklands Studios Melbourne (2010, 2021)[1] |
Running time | 30 minutes (1999–2000) 60 minutes (2000–2006, 2010) 90 minutes (2007) 75 to 100 minutes (2021) |
Production companies | Grundy Television (1999–2001) Celador (1999–2006) 2waytraffic (2007, 2010) Sony Pictures Television (2021) |
Original release | |
Network | Nine Network |
Release | 18 April 1999 3 April 2006 | –
Release | 22 October 26 November 2007 | –
Release | 27 February 6 March 2010 | –
Release | 25 January 13 May 2021 | –
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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. 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.