Good news! Now, you don't have to win the lottery or cozy up to Ed McMahon to lay your greedy mitts on $10 million. Just get yourself on Super Millionaire — the amped-up version of ABC's Who Wants to be a Millionaire? debuting Feb. 22. And sorry, Meredith Vieira, original host Regis Philbin is back to emcee the big prime-time event. Here's how this Super-sized edition will be different...
The biggest change is the grand prize increase from $1 million to $10 million. They hope this'll lure back viewers who burned out on Millionaire, back when ABC was airing it in constant rotation. "It's a terrific jackpot," Philbin says, "and it's just what we need to energize the audience and get them in here with us." As producer Michael Davies explains: "Frankly, $1 million ain't wh
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