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ABC’s season finale of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was Thursday’s highest-rated and most-watched show in primetime, drawing a 0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 6.56 million viewers. It led the network’s game-show block that gave ABC the overall victory for the night in both metrics. Millionaire, which…

ABC’s trio of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Holey Moley and To Tell the Truth swept their respective time slots Thursday in primetime, giving the network the nightly victory in both the adults 18-49 demograpic and total viewers. Millionaire (0.9 adults 18-49 rating, 6.07 million viewers) grew a tenth and gained in…

ABC has renewed 13 more series for 2020-21, eight of them scripted, including freshmen Stumptown and mixed-ish. The broadcast network has picked up American Housewife, black-ish, The Conners, The Goldbergs, A Million Little Things, mixed-ish, The Rookie, Stumptown; reality stalwarts The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars…

ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was the top-rated show in primetime Thursday, scoring a 0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 6.20 million viewers on a night that saw the series finale of CBS’ Tommy, the debut of Fox’s Gogglebox-themed Celebrity Watch Party, and the return of NBC’s Blindspot for its fifth…

ITV and AMC have dropped a first look at Michael Sheen as TV host Chris Tarrant in their dramatization of the cheating scandal on Britain’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The still from Left Bank Pictures-produced Quiz re-creates the moment Tarrant, who hosted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for 16 years on ITV, arrived…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Vine, the BBC presenter and host of Channel 5’s daily chat show Jeremy Vine, is to front his first major format for ITV — a game show pitting some of Britain’s best quizzers against each other. Deadline can reveal that ITV has commissioned Spun Gold to make Quizmaster, a 90-minute special in which 15…

EXCLUSIVE: Succession's Matthew Macfadyen, The Good Fight's Michael Sheen and Fleabag's Sian Clifford are to star in Quiz, a drama about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? cheating scandal, for AMC and ITV. The Breaking Bad broadcaster and the British commercial network have commissioned the TV adaptation of Brexit: An…

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…