Call your lifelines: ABC wants to make more Millionaires.
The Alphabet network will bring back host Regis Philbin for an 11-night primetime run of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to celebrate the game show's 10th anniversary this summer. The show will premiere Aug. 9 and run through Aug. 23.
The quiz show was an instant success when it debuted in August 1999 and popularized the phrase, "Is that your final answer?" Ratings began to fall, and the primetime series was cancelled in 2002. Today host Meredith Vieira then began emceeing a syndicated daytime version of the show, which is still airing.
Aside from the anniversary...
read more
Television personality Regis Philbin will guest-star on How I Met Your Mother this fall. Philbin will play himself in an episode, scheduled to air Sept. 29, which concerns Marshall's search for the restaurant in which he had his first New York burger. (For me, it was Corner Bistro in the spring of 1998. Ah! Google it. Out-of-this-world delicious!) The new season of Mother premieres on Monday, Sept. 22 (CBS, 8:30 pm/ET). — Mickey O'Connor
read more
Talk-show host, soap alum, übermom, sassy spouse... and Ugly guest? Kelly Ripa's résumé just got one line longer.On Ugly Betty's Sept. 25 season opener, Ripa and Live cohost Regis Philbin will be grilling "Mode" editors Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams) and Alexis (Rebecca Romijn) when they appear on their daytime talker.Not to be outdone, Ripa is beating her hunky hubby, Mark Consuelos, to the punch — as we reported last week, he'll be appearing on the new season's third episode. But will there be some kind of tie-in between Ripa and Consuelos' Ugly stints? That remains a mystery.Tell us — would you like to see the real-life spouses together on Ugly Betty? And if so, playing whom? — Nina Hämmerling Smith
read more
Morning show co-host Kelly Ripa may be know for her super-fit bod, but turns out her calves of steel were no match for the other runners at the Regis and Kelly High Heel-a-thon that took place Wednesday in Central Park. One hundred plus women (and a few brave men) strapped on their most comfy pumps (now there's an oxymoron) and sprinted a 150-yard dash in them. The Reege didn't compete, but that must have been because he wanted to let someone else win – what a guy!
read more
We were promised more energy, more fun and more excitement for this year's Daytime Emmy Awards, and the event delivered. Opening with multiple, overlapping spoofs on daytime television, hosts Sherri Shepherd and Cameron Mathison set the tone from the start. With an all-new, banquet-style set-up and an open bar for the guests, the sweltering L.A. evening outdoors was left far behind for the cool festivities inside the Kodak theater. Backstage in the press room, TVGuide.com heard from the winners of each category, where the newly crowned Daytime Emmy recipients gushed about their new trophies.Tyra Banks was one of the first of the night to take home a win. For her acceptance speech, she took over the entire stage area with her team when they won for Outstanding Talk Show/Informative series, and she was no less outspoken when she arrived at the press room. Explaining that she'd had her own "ugly cry" after holding her composure on camera, she also spoke to her mother's emotions over th...
read more
