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.
Here's everything we know about Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2024.
How to watch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2024
The run of summer 2024 episodes of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire have come to an end, but if you want to go back and watch any you still can.
All eight episodes of 2024's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are available to watch on-demand on Hulu.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2024 host
Asking the questions and shepherding this latest edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is Jimmy Kimmel. The host of ABC's late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel has hosted the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire revivals that have aired since 2020 and is set to continue in that role with this batch of episodes.
He is the latest in a long line of hosts for the game show. Most famous of course is Regis Philbin, but other Who Wants To Be A Millionaire hosts have included Meredith Vieria, Cedric the Entertainer, Terry Crews and Chris Harrison, as well as a slew of different guest hosts.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire gameplay
The basic rules of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are contestants answer multiple choice questions worth increasing amounts of money building up to a $1 million final question. They keep going as long as they get the questions right, but get one wrong and the game is over; there are benchmark points that ensure you win a certain amount of money once you reach them. Contestants also have lifelines that can help them figure out the answers.
The lifelines available to be used for this version of the game are 50:50 (removing two wrong answers from the four options), Phone-a-Friend (allowing you to call a contact to get help with the question), Ask the Audience (polling the studio audience's thoughts on a question) and Ask the Host (though Kimmel is not privy to the answers beforehand).
For this special anniversary run of games, for the first time ever, the contestants for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are going to be celebrity pairs, as they compete to win money for charity.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2024 contestants
Here are the celebrity contestants that are slated to compete on this special edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?:
- John Mulaney & Nick Kroll
- Kenan Thompson & Kel Mitchell
- Rosie O'Donnell & Lisa Ann Walter
- Sebastian Maniscalco & Omar J. Dorsey
- Nicole Byer & Sasheer Zamata
- John Stamos & Dave Coulier
- Sophia Bush & Alex Edelman
- Jeff Ross & Jimmy's Cousin Sal
- "Lil Dicky" & GaTa
- Kelly Osbourne & Jack Osbourne
- Zach Braff & Donald Faison
- Ike Barinholtz & Alan Barinholtz
- Ray Romano & Brad Garrett
- Jason Ritter & Natasha Leggero
- Reggie Watts & Ron Funches
- Gillian Jacobs & Danny Pudi
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2024 trailer
No trailer for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is available at this time. If/when ABC releases one, we'll add it here.
