Formats of Who Wants to be a Millionaire

There should be an option to change your vote. I didn't see the "least favorite" part of the question. I absoultely hated the US clock format, and to top it of, Meredith Vieira was my least favorite host.

Nuttermit, I personally disagree with the music part, because I am very fond of some of the soundtracks of the formats of Shuffle and 2016-. I do agree with how people think it's corrupted because, to be fair, it is, and all questions are the same difficulty, making it easier to get to round 2. As a result, question writers have to ramp up the difficulty. Just compare Josina Reaves' question to any question from Tournament of Ten.

The two I went with were Shuffle and Hot Seat. For me, there is nothing Millionaire-like with the Shuffle format. All the other formats (except Hot Seat) could boast that it was fair, and that every contestant had roughly the same chance of winning a lot of money, but Shuffle removed that entirely, even more so with only one lifeline that could help you to win anything. Two contestants could both play the same game (ATA on Q1, Jump Q2&3, walk on Q4, for example), and one could win $12,500 and the other could (theoretically) only win fifty bucks, which isn't right. Although the $1,000 consolation helped to rectify this a little, removing the original safety nets meant you could lose up to sixty-something grand, a ridiculous amount of money to face losing on the tenth question. The music for the Shuffle format was just dreadful. The Round 1 music was boring and didn't fit Millionaire at all. The fact that the same Final, Correct, Incorrect and Lights Down music was played the entire way up the money tree was also very bad, completely ruining everything that the Strachan's original score did. The question beds for Round 2 didn't provide the tension like the original tier three music did. the $1,000,000 Background music should be like the original, which even the Rave music managed to do.

Hot Seat, meanwhile, isn't much better. In terms of soundtrack, at least they kept some Strachan pieces, but the question music for that really isn't great, in my opinion. Unlike Shuffle, however, Hot Seat does have a good opening theme. However, I feel that the Hot Seat format could have used the entire Rave format, which probably would have worked quite well with the faster-paced game. Hot Seat's format is probably the worst way that 2WayTraffic tried to butcher the show all together. Six people playing for one prize isn't fair on anybody, except the person who wins. That kind of game is much more of a daytime thing, a place Millionaire really doesn't belong. In the UK, at least, I think the highest top prize available in Daytime now is £10,000 (especially now Deal or No Deal has been cancelled), so offering the equivalent of £606,000 on a Daytime-ish show doesn't really feel right. Big prizes should be reserved for Primetime to draw the viewers in, and not wasted at 5pm-ish, and especially not against a much better format than Hot Seat, The Chase. Another problem with Hot Seat is that someone could get the first 13 questions right and have won absolutely nothing. Then, they could get the last question wrong, and suddenly player 2 waltzes in and can win A$250,000 without doing barely anything. How ridiculous is that?

If I had to score the formats, Shuffle would get about 2/10 due to rubbish music, an awful format and no fairness, and Hot Seat would get about 5/10 due to a rubbish format and no fairness, but the fact the music is half-decent helps it a little.