Millionaire is Coming Back Home to ABC

I was a broadcasting major in college and a Nielsen family for a year, this video is very accurate.  Ratings are really skewed and don't account for every *single* person watching a show.  It's a huge guesstimate.  

I would put a safe bet on 10-15 episodes, given the number of tape dates and the time between them.

Taking the syndicated production into account (and the difference in length), I went to see shows for an entire day, morning and afternoon. There were eight half hour shows filmed in a single day back then, so if they stick to a similar schedule, I would guess there are about two to four shows a day being taped. There's no way they would get through four shows from 11:15 AM to 3:30 PM, for example, so assuming two to four shows per day puts the total average at about 10-15 episodes, give or take.

Of course, I could be completely and totally wrong, but we'll see!

I had tickets to the 2020 run and was mid-flight when the taping was cancelled and I had to return home on the next flight. I'd still love to go...

If I fly in is there any reason they will not let me attend all the shows? I see on the ticket it says one session per day but syndicated let me watch as many as I wanted. Just wondering if anyone knows before I pay big money to fly out.

Hi everyone,

Just got back from day 1 of taping. Had a great time, won’t spoil anything for others. Two shows per taping.

There were a lot of paid actors there which I did not care for and On Camera Audiences were giving them better seats (where they would be seen on camera) than some of the real fans. Wasn’t impressed with OCA this time around but overall a great time and the show people were great.

Curious, I'm flying out tonight for the tapings (hopefully both) tomorrow. I couldn't get "priority" tickets for tomorrow so just have the line vouchers. Do you happen to know if they were able to accommodate everyone? And if so were they able to go to both sessions?

If you arrive half an hour before the time on the ticket, you'll be fine. The "priority" doesn't seem to matter at all, they don't even really look at the ticket, just a quick glance to make sure you have one. I didn't go to both sessions in one day but I saw other people who did. They are struggling to get audience, that's why there's such a high number of paid background actors in attendance.

As for the vibe, it's definitely a mix of the old and the new, but more of the new. Jimmy hosts the same way he did in Covid, which is good or bad depending on your preferences. The music and lighting cues are the same as 2020, which is to say not super tight or always accurate (a few missed "lights down" cues). One interesting change is they have removed the second milestone win cue and replaced it with the $32,000 non-milestone win cue and lights-down from the UK version, even though $32,000 IS always a milestone in the US.

The celebrities were really funny most of the time, and the game itself works much better than the Covid seasons. They are a pair of celebrities playing together, and having to agree on their answer, not one celebrity looking back for help at their more knowledgeable friend behind them, which means there is tension all the way up the tree, not just unlimited "gimmies" until $32,000. So I'd say of all the celebrity specials even going back to Regis, it's definitely got the most tension in it. They're playing for charity, but they're actually playing the game properly (most of them, anyway).