Disney-ABC's game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire has been canceled after 17-years in syndication, 22 years overall, a show spokesperson confirmed to Deadline. Based on the same-titled British program, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was developed for the U.S. by Michael Davies. It premiered on August 16, 1999 and…

EXCLUSIVE: 25 Words or Less, a syndicated game show hosted and produced by Meredith Vieira, is sold in 75% of the country ahead of its debut this fall, Twentieth Television is reporting as NATPE kicks off in Miami. Ken Lawson, SVP & General Sales Manager of Broadcast Sale for Twentieth, called the reception to the…

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is returning to British broadcaster ITV with ten new episodes. The Grand Tour's Jeremy Clarkson is once again hosting the stripped run following a series of anniversary specials earlier this year. The show relaunched in May with over 6M viewers and a 31% share. The show will air in 2019…

The Grand Tour host Jeremy Clarkson is reportedly set to host a remake of gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in the UK, four years after it was cancelled by ITV. The show is being developed by Sony-owned production company Stellify Media, which produces the reboot of Blind Date for Channel 5 and recently secured…

Game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and viral video showcase series RightThisMinute have been renewed through the 2018-2019 season on ABC owned stations. Hosted by Chris Harrison, Millionaire is in its 16th season in national syndication. RightThisMinute, a compilation of viral videos and the stories behind clips…

Disney/ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution has announced that game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and viral video showcase series RightThisMinute have been renewed through the 2017-2018 season on ABC-owned stations that carry the the shows. Hosted by Chris Harrison, Millionaire is currently in its…

Disney/ABC Television Distribution’s flagship syndicated series, Live with Kelly and Michael, has been renewed by the ABC Owned Stations through the 2019-2020 television season. Additionally, the ABC O&Os have picked up Disney/ABC’s game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for next season, 2016-17( with the exception…

After going with actors Cedric the Entertainer and Terry Crews for season-long hosting stints the past two years, ABC has returned to its original game plan of having one of its popular personalities host the syndicated version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Chris Harrison, the face of ABC's venerable reality…

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host Terry Crews will host the 30th Annual Television Critics Association Awards on Saturday, July 19 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Crews, who also stars in Fox comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, will kick off the un-televised trophy show in which awards are handed out in such categories as news…

The i’s have been dotted, the t’s have been crossed, with actor, Old Spice pitchman and former NFL player Terry Crews sealing a deal to become the new host of the syndicated Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for the next 13th season, which launches in the fall. He succeeds Cedric the Entertainer, who hosted the show this…

Expect Who Wants to be a Millionaire to be "more energetic, a lot more fun" and have "a lot more excitement – that's what I plan on bringing to it," Cedric the Entertainer told TV critics this morning. Cedric's replacing Meredith Vieira who, in turn replaced Regis Philbin on the <a href="http://www.deadline.com/tag/abc/" target="_blank"…

Following some chatter during NATPE last week, I have learned that Cedric The Entertainer has closed a three-year deal to replace Meredith Vieira as host the syndicated version of quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. I hear the multi-million pact will pay Cedric close to what Vieira was making in the final years…