Twenty-five years ago, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire took the US by storm, as the game show hosted by Regis Philbin premiered in August 1999, airing for 13 consecutive nights to see if any contestant could answer a series of trivia questions to win a $1 million prize. From there, the show would become ingrained into US culture, with things like its tense music, lifelines and "Is that your final answer" becoming instantly recognizable.
The game show has aired for more than 400 episodes in primetime since then, as well as having a daytime syndicated TV version that ran for many years. But it hadn't been on air since 2021, until summer 2024 when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire returned to primetime for a special slate of episodes to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
