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Post by millionaire2000 on Feb 7, 2017 18:19:21 GMT -5
Excluding the Tournament of 10, no one has won the grand prize on the U.S. Syndicated version since 2003. 14 years. No one has won seven figures in any Millionaire format since 2004, when Super Millionaire produced one million dollar winner. 13 years. A lot of close calls come to mind. Armand Kachigian. Jeff Gross. Ogi Ogas. Lyn Paine. Ken Basin. Josnia Reaves. Chip Esten. But the drought has continued. And I've noticed that it was often expected and commonplace in the older Millionaire episodes (especially the Regis days) for people to reach the 32K threshold. And although a small sample size, I watched about 3 weeks worth of episodes hosted by Chris Harrison (so 15 half an hour blocks,) and I only recall contestants reaching the 50K threshold a few times. (It's a small sample size yeah, but that seems pretty glaring). So have the questions gotten much harder? Have the contestants just not as clever as the ones in older episodes? Is it both? And how long do you guys think we'll have to wait before we see someone win a million? Post what you guys think.
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Post by pinballwiz45b on Feb 7, 2017 20:37:52 GMT -5
The 20th Anniversary of WWTBAM in America is quickly approaching, faster than you think. (Time does fly these days!) Assuming the return to prime time happens in about 2 and a half years, I'd say it's likely we'll see at least one.
I agree about the difficulty of the questions being more difficult. They run on syndication (daytime) nowadays, and they don't drag in as many viewers as prime time. Less viewers, less cash they're able to give away, from what I can tell.
We've had a close call this season. Father Bill Matheny walked with $250,000; had he Final Answered on the $500,000 question (which he was right, but didn't want to risk it. Still a great cause on what he did with his winnings), it would've been the first time in about 2 years since we've seen a $1 MILLION question.
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Post by Peachfanclub on Feb 22, 2017 18:21:12 GMT -5
I have noticed that the questions have indeed gotten much harder. We rarely saw $100,000 winners on the weekday version of Millionaire (and so the scarcity continues) while the 10th anniversary special saw at least two contestants get there. I think the introduction of the clock format made the game harder than ever, and not counting the Tournament of 10, only two people since the introduction of the clock format have ever answered the $500,000 question correctly. Among them were a star from the TV show Nashville, and an entertainment lawyer who just so happened to be a contestant on the final night of the 10th anniversary celebration. One other contestant jumped over the $500,000 question.
As for now, the show will stick around at least until the summer of 2018, so I'm hoping that since they usually decide to renew the show mid-season, when they finally decide to pull the axe, someone will become a Millionaire in the final season. I highly doubt that we'll ever see a final season, given that they've had so much success finding new hosts.
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Post by wwtbamfan12 (COOLREGISHAIR111) on Feb 23, 2017 3:13:14 GMT -5
Well. We all are hoping that someone finaly beat the final question and win the grand prize of $ 1,000,000
We had 9 winners in primetime from 1999 to 2002 and only TWO winners since 2002 (I'm not counting Sam Murray because he didn't go all the way to last question and Robert Essig because the top prize was $10 MILLION). But in primetime it was bigger budget and the questions was easier but in syndicated the budget was smaller and they ramped up the difficulty of the questions to prevent giving a big ammounts of money so often like primetime . And it's a awful situation because NOBODY in 14 years won the grand prize.And the only one chance to get a winner it's reduce the difficulty of the questions. And the next reason why we didn't got a winner -people just don't want to take a risk on the big money questions .
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
