{"id":665,"date":"2010-02-13T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=665"},"modified":"2010-02-13T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:30:52","slug":"who-wants-to-be-a-us-version-of-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants to be a US Version of Millionaire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Travis for finding this information (although I should just stress I can&#8217;t find a printed source for it, although I&#8217;ve got no reason to believe he&#8217;s making it up), it looks like <strong>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?<\/strong> is making some changes.<\/p>\n<p>Quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It looks like Millionaire is ringing in the changes for the new series. Twelve shows are being recorded this week and next and will feature the following changes.<\/p>\n<p>-Fastest Finger First is gone, contestants now follow one after the other. Like the US daytime and Aussie Multi-Millionaire variants.<\/p>\n<p>-The clock is being brought in, no word on what the time limits are.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Switch the Question is being brought back and will be used as a fourth lifeline for anybody who reaches \u00a350,000.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, I\u2019m sure there are still some carry over episodes from last year that have yet to be aired. ITV have given the show a 17 week run for the spring and summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom H wonders if we&#8217;ll get the lovely US graphics package, I&#8217;m more interested in what they&#8217;re going to do with the music &#8211; the Strachans&#8217; clock-based revamps of the old standards are pretty superb, all told, and something suggests that reversionings of what we&#8217;ve currently got won&#8217;t work quite so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Travis for finding this information (although I should just stress I can&#8217;t find a printed source for it, although I&#8217;ve got no reason to believe he&#8217;s making it up), it looks like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is making some changes. Quote: It looks like Millionaire is ringing in the changes for\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=665\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-aJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}