Talk:Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Proposed Merger of National Variant List to Established Article

The aritcle List of national variants in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? appears to be crudely created and has been flagged for original research earlier this year, however when I stumbled across it and took a look over, I can't help but wonder if with some attention paid to cleaning up that page, it may serve well merged into the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? article. I especially consider this due to the lack of a a section here detailing the many national variations of the show. --Terkaal (talk) 08:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Discussion regarding seperate article for US version

Should there be a separate entry for the American version of the show? Its temporarily phenomenonal status in the U.S. is entirely missing from the article. I understand you wouldn't want to read a hundred times over what kind of phenomenon it was in each country, but in the U.S. it was such a total ratings monster during about 1999-2001 that it's part of the show's story. For something like 18 months it would consistently be three out of the top five rated shows (unheard of) due to its multiple prime time airings. ABC invested so heavily in the show that they burned it out too quickly to have other programming to replace it (unheard of?). ABC disappeared from the top 20 entirely (also unheard of) and there's interesting insights into the functioning of U.S. TV network programming politics lurking here. I heard that Regis was quite angry about ABC overexposing the show, and the Regis connection/phenomenon/popularity/struggle with ABC is another aspect worthy of the article, but missing. ABC's programming was so knocked for a loop for something like three years that it gambled on innovative (for TV) programming that wouldn't have gotten a chance otherwise, like Lost, Desperate Housewives, and Grey's Anatomy. 0-0-0-Destruct-0 22:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC)