Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Much preferred Matthew Strachan's 2008/2009 rework of the original music. It was a good evolution of what was an already brilliant piece of music.

Can you link me to the 2008/2009 rework please?

2008 Rework - https://soundcloud.com/strachansongs/millionaire-usa-opening-theme?in=strachansongs/sets/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire

2009 Rework - https://soundcloud.com/strachansongs/wwtbam-opening-theme-2009v2 (This version didn't have the clock in the theme)

The Hot Seat in Australia has a year or two worth of eps from an uploader (can't find off top of my head) on Youtube, along with AU chase etc. I really like the hot seat... Or did until a quite dreadful 2018 change.

So essentially rotation of contestants and when people answer wrong the top prize comes down. So always you're at scenario usually of 20 or 50K or 1K safety net for final question if most contestants are gone. Or worst case you get to £1M question and you lose and it is 1K. I found it great TV for 20-22 mins.

To compete with the AU Chase on the other side, 9 decided to make the Hot Seat an hour long... First half an hour is a 15 question "fastest finger first" style format which resembles 100% from Ch5 with an audience... It's terrible viewing which some how spins half the show, no real chat to the contestants and all it does is give the leading contestant £1K and a chance later in the show to trade it for ONE lifeline. Looked a hideous madeup in 5 mins format change over the winter break. I watch it still but often just fast forward to the "main show" part.

On the old or current AU Millionaire - I'd go as far as to say Eddie McGuire is as close as it gets to Tarrant. However he spent way too long (even longer than Tarrant) on some of the big winning runs to reveal answers to contestants on the old format. It took him about 10 mins to reveal an answer for 1 Million question 15 years ago. I know more breaks etc but I think it took 45 mins to get from 250K to winning 1 Mil.

Both of those sound naff to me.

I’m going to create a titles mashup of all five title sequences since it is the 20th Anniversary of Millionaire.

It's a shame that when the ratings dipped, they tried to revamp Millionaire by turning their back on everything that had ever made the show iconic in the first place. In various 'making of' shows they were absolutely explicit that the "lions den" studio, dark titles, dark music and tension what what MADE the show. Then they revamped it with a bright studio, jazzy music, ghastly animated opening titles - it took all the magic out of it.

Hopefully the new run will stay true to the original.

Set your own safety net and ask the host notwithstanding of course and Australian hot seat was shown on challenge a while back - wasn’t too bad at all

There's a 7 minute preview video of a journalist from The Sun having a go

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6206281/jeremy-clarkson-talks-millionaire-host-pressures/

The 20th Anniversary of WWTBAM is actually in September. Not sure why they decided to do this series a few months early.

Celador wasn't responsible for the 2007 revamp. Or the 2010 one.

Probably because there's a hole in the schedule now and not in September.