All the Canceled and Renewed TV Shows in April 2025
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
- 2002-2020
- 18 seasons
- Game Show
- TV-PG
The iconic game show returns for a celebrity-filled prime-time event hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
- 2002-2020
- 18 seasons
- Game Show
- TV-PG
The iconic game show returns for a celebrity-filled prime-time event hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Here are the Charities Catherine O'Hara, Anthony Anderson and More are Playing For
Nikki Glaser is here for the birds
General Hospital Leads Daytime Emmy Nominations
CBS is the most nominated network
The Biz: Meredith Vieira Returns to Daytime
It's hard to say no to Meredith Vieira. While putting together her new daytime show, NBCUniversal executives let the host pick her executive producer, sidekick, band — even the furniture on her set (a tatty, pet-ravaged couch from her Westchester, New York, home). Perhaps the "suits" — as Vieira calls them — are aware that she is one of the rare TV talents who is not afraid to walk away from it all. After becoming, at age 35 in 1989, the youngest correspondent ever hired by 60 Minutes, she left the prestigious CBS newsmagazine two years later to have her second child when then-executive producer Don Hewitt refused her request to work part-time. Her very public decision sparked a national conversation on the challenges for women who balance motherhood and career. After an Emmy award-winning stint on the ABC newsmagazine Turning Point, she changed course, becoming a founding panelist on the daytime coffee klatch The View in 1997.
Why Terry Crews Wants to Be a Millionaire
Terry Crews is keeping plenty busy. The former pro footballer — who plays Sgt. Jeffords on Fox's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, stars in The Expendables 3 (out August 15) and is Old Spice's commercial spokesman — can now add game-show host to his résumé. The actor will emcee 170 episodes of the syndicated Who Wants to Be a Millionaire next season. Crews explains how he's juggling his moonlighting gig.
Terry Crews Tapped to Host TCA Awards
Terry Crews will emcee the Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 19, the organization announced Thursday.
Terry Crews to Host Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Terry Crews is the new host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, ABC announced Wednesday. The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star will begin his hosting tenure in the fall for the syndicated show's 13th season. "I'm beyond thrilled to be joining Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and the Disney-ABC family," Crews said in a statement. "
Cedric the Entertainer Leaving Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Who wants to be the host of a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The syndicated daytime game show's current host, Cedric the Entertainer, is leaving after one season. Shows we're losing this year The actor-comedian, 50, announced he is exiting because of ...
Regis Philbin to Host a Fox Sports 1 Talk Show
Regis Philbin has been tapped to host a talk show on Fox Sports 1, according to The Associated Press. Crowd Goes Wild will feature interviews with guests and panel debates with NFL star Trevor Pryce, pro tennis player Michael Kosta, Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay and Sky Sports' anchor Georgie Thompson. Add new fall shows to your watchlist "We're not...
Meredith Vieira to Host Daytime Talk Show
Meredith Vieira will host her own daytime talkshow on NBC, NBCUniversal announced Tuesday. The Meredith Vieira Show will debut in the fall and receive national syndication.
Report: Jeopardy! Eyes Matt Lauer, Brian Williams to Replace Alex Trebek
As Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek continues mulling retirement, the syndicated game show is weighing its options regarding its nest host. And according to The New York Post, the current frontrunner is... Today show anchor Matt Lauer.
CBS' The Job Offers Contestants a Shot at Their Dream Gig
Two years ago, a conversation Michael Davies had with his daughter, then a 19-year-old college student, inspired him to create a reality show about people trying to find employment. "When she finished up freshman year at school, she told me that she had no intention of going back for her sophomore year," Davies tells TVGuide.com. "And when I asked her why, she said because none of the graduating seniors in her college have real jobs." And thus, CBS's The Job, which premieres Friday at 8/7c, was born.
Meredith Vieira Leaving Who Wants to be a Millionaire
After 11 years as host, Meredith Vieira is leaving the U.S. syndicated version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Meredith Vieira Returns to General Hospital
It's hard out there for a madam. Meredith Vieira guested on ABC's General Hospital nearly 10 years ago as Bree Flanders, owner of an upscale call-girl business who tried to hire one of Luke Spencer's ladyloves. Bree's back on the soap Friday, Dec. 14, only this time in a very different line of work. Vieira gave TV Guide Magazine the exclusive dish.
Disney Loses $319 Million Appeal of Millionaire Verdict
The Walt Disney Company has lost its appeal for a new trial against the creators of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?, who won a $319 million lawsuit against the company in 2010.In ruling issued Monday, an appeals court panel denied Disney's request for a new trial, meaning the massive damage award stands barring a Supreme Court intervention.
ABC' Daytime President to Step Down
Brian Frons, the president of ABC Daytime that oversaw the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Life, is stepping down, the network announced on Friday. "While my decision to try something new was not arrived at easily, nine years is a long time in television terms," Frons said in a statement. "I'm proud of the performance of ABC Daytime over that time, and of all of the accomplishments that our team achieved along the way."
Watercoooler: You Deserve It Earns Our Love
Maybe it's Thanksgiving week sappiness getting to us, but we're totally grateful for ABC's You Deserve It. Last night, the well-intentioned game show kicked off with all the emotional fixings: Chris Harrison for our most-dramatic-ever hosting needs, folks in need for the tears, selfless friends for the "it's better to give" message, and of course, mild-to-tricky trivia questions for the fun stuff.
Regis Philbin Signs Off Live After 28 Years
In the end, it wasn't just Regis and Kelly, or Regis and Kathie Lee ... it felt more like Regis and everybody. After some 16,000 hours in front of a television camera, Regis Philbin signed off Live! with Regis and Kelly Friday morning.Ending a 28-year run, the "Farewell Special" began oddly ...
Countdown to Ace of Cakes' Sweet Finale
Mark your calendars, Ace of Cakes fans, because there are only five episodes left before the February 20 series finale. The Charm City Cakes head honcho, Chef Duff Goldman, gives a taste of what to expect.
Matt's Picks: December 20-23
Million Dollar Money Drop (Monday, 8/7c, Fox)This is how game-show sensations are born — and Fox certainly hopes this will be their version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Airing Monday-Thursday this week (Tuesday and Wednesday's installments air at 9/8c, with a two-hour finale on Thursday), this game, hosted by comedian Kevin Pollak, is pretty simple. Contestants are asked multiple-choice questions with a million dollars in cash on the line. They put the cash on the answers they think are correct — one must always be left blank — and if they're wrong, the cash they've distributed on the wrong answer disappears down a chute. Panic sets in pretty quickly. The two-hour premiere goes head-to-head with the finale of NBC's holiday hit The Sing-Off. Men of a Certain Age (Monday, 10/9c, TNT)Yes, Virginia, there are some new episodes of non-reality series airing this week. You just have to know where to look for them. On Men...
Real Housewives Stars Taking Over Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
You've been warned, Meredith Vieira! The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire host will welcome the hair-pulling and table-flipping stars of Bravo's Real Housewives franchise, starting Monday. Aptly titled The Real Housewives of Millionaire, next week's five new episodes will have several of the franchise's stars appearing alongside real-life housewives to help them win up to...
Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009
Raging Planet9/8c DiscoveryTake a thrilling ride right into the heart of the planet's most amazing forces — revealing the speed of twisters and the lethal force of lightning bolts. The show features the most spectacular footage of these occurrences ever shot as well as interviews with people who have come face to face with these stunning mega-storms.Read on for previews of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, There Goes the Neighborhood, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Roast of Joan Rivers and Entourage.
ABC Revives Millionaire for 10th Anniversary
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...
New NBC Heads Won't Change Fall Lineup
NBC Universal president and CEO Jeff Zucker said he doesn’t envision any changes to the NBC's 2007-08 fall schedule even though he's changed top entertainment executives at the network. NBC made it official late Tuesday that Ben Silverman, who brought The Office and Ugly Betty to American television, will become co-chairman of the network’s entertainment division and production studio. Marc Graboff, president of NBC Universal Television, West Coast, has also been elevated to co-chairman."The timing of the announcement has nothing to do with the fall schedule," said Zucker. "The reaction [to the lineup] has been incredibly strong.” He said he’d been trying to bring Silverman into the network for some time, and only recently learned that he was ready to make a move. Silverman will be in charge of creative decisions at the network and studio, while Graboff will handle the business side. The announcement means goodbye to Kevin Reilly, the NBC entertainment president ...
Short Cuts: A Chinese Millionaire, Obama and More!
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire will make its debut in China in May, says Reuters — but with only celebrities competing (to comply with local regulations), and perhaps a different title, as 1,000,000 yuan only add up to US $129,000.... Illinois senator/presidential hopeful Barack Obama hosts Crucible of Courage, a Biography Channel special commemorating Black History Month, on Feb. 22 at 9 pm/ET.... This sounds important to somebody: Famed tenor Placido Domingo will, for the first time ever, sing the baritone, title role in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 2009, his rep tells the AP.
Forget the Cheerleader — Save NBC
NBC jumped the shark in 2004.The Apprentice was the hottest show on television. We're talking absolute must see TV that was oozing buzz. NBC tried to capitalize on the show's success and put all their eggs in the Donald's reality basket.I said it then, and I'm saying it now — moving The Apprentice to anchor Thursday nights sent the network right over the fin. ABC learned its lesson with Millionaire. CBS always had CSI and Everybody Loves Raymond to go with Survivor and The Amazing Race.Thursday nights belonged to NBC. It lost Friends and Frasier (which had jumped the shark years ago) and had nothing in the pipeline. First to fourth wasn't an "if", it was a "when".I understand how tempting it is to lead off each night with a game show or reality show (i.e. inexpensive show). It's also another big mistake. Deal or No Deal is getting pummeled into the ground as I type as the contestants get more and more "wacky".So you're Jeff Zucker... what do you do? Glad you asked.1. Pluck C...
Short Cuts: Flavor Flav, Millionaire and More!
Sunday's 90-minute Flavor of Love 2 season finale drew 7.5 million total viewers, making it VH1's highest-rated telecast ever and the No. 1 cable telecast for the night, but not the top non-sports telecast in all of basic cable for the entire year. That honor goes to the season opener of TNT's The Closer... Celebrity guest hosts will spell a busy, busy Meredith Vieira for "a couple of days" during the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire season currently in production, says the New York Daily News.... Megan Mullally, Dakota Fanning, Andie MacDowell and Beau Bridges have joined the guest list for the CMT Giants special honoring Reba McEntire, airing Nov. 18.UPDATED to correct one ratings superlative assigned to Flavor of Love 2 by the Hollywood Reporter.
Is NBC's Big Deal the New Millionaire?
Who still wants to be a millionaire? The contestants on NBC's Deal or No Deal, a new game show airing every night this week at 8 pm/ET, apparently do. Why else would they put themselves through the nerve-frazzling agony of deciding whether to keep one unopened case — which could contain anywhere from a penny to a cool mil — or "deal" it to the mysterious Bank for what could be a higher (or, natch, lower) payout. Sound a touch confusing here on "paper"? Let host Howie Mandel try to sum up the series, which is already a massive hit internationally. Each contestant, confronted with a stage full of fab femmes, each holding a numbered case, "picks a number, and one of 26 different increments of money is in each box," Mandel says. But instead of simply popping open the chosen case to assess your bounty and whether you should walk away with it, "the wa
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