Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

In more recent times, Elstree has had the likes of Big Brother UK and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Durie has also appeared in other top brand name programs in Australia and the USA including Dancing with the Stars, 60 minutes, Celebrity Millionaire, The Price is Right, Better Homes and Gardens, Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, E news, NBC Today Show, Donahue, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and most recently was host and judge on the popular US series Top Design in Australia.

He has also appeared on programmes such as This Is Your Life ( appearing on 7 February 1990 ; aged still only 28, he was one of the show's youngest ever guests ) and more recently Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?.

* Pamela Wallin-Wallin has made several appearances on Air Farce, including one in which Goy portrays herself as the Canadian host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

McGuire has hosted the Nine Network's The AFL Footy Show, the Australian version of game shows Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

In 1951, the film, Millionaire for Christy, starred her across from Fred MacMurray as a young secretary sent to notify a young man he has inherited $ 2 million from a late uncle.

The company has since become one of the most prominent producers of electronic toys, chosen to produce toys based on a wide variety of licenses, including Star Trek, Star Wars, Barney, Arthur, Winnie the Pooh, Franklin the Turtle, Neopets, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy !, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

" He has expressed admiration for Chris Ware and Tony Millionaire.

She has also appeared in celebrity versions of game shows to support Childline when she played in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Vieira has hosted the American syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire since 2002 — a continuation of the primetime show hosted by Regis Philbin.

Ghent also has a booming indie scene: Absynthe Minded, Das Pop, Millionaire, Zornik, Awaken and the successful Soulwax bring indierock with a slightly rougher edge than their Antwerp fellows, while The Vogues ( Brussels ) have a British-influenced sound.

Filmi music composed by A. R. Rahman ( who would later win two Academy Awards for the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack ) has frequently been sampled by musicians elsewhere in the world, including the Singaporean artist Kelly Poon, the Uzbek artist Iroda Dilroz, the French rap group La Caution, the American artist Ciara, and the German band Löwenherz, among others.

Hindi filmi music has reached an even wider global audience due to the success of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, also composed by Rahman.

Bellingham has appeared in ITV1's " Who wants to be a Millionaire " alongside Bill Oddie in a Celebrity Special ( Series 18 ) in September 2005.

As the Associated Press put it, Joe Millionaire “ has gone from one of TV ’ s most surprising successes to the new season ’ s most spectacular flameout .” FOX ’ s entertainment chair Sandy Grushow said, " Our instincts told us from the very beginning that ' Joe Millionaire ' was a one-time stunt and I think we got greedy.

The London office will be overseen by WTTV's head of television ( UK ) Juliette Howell, who has worked as an executive producer in the BBC drama commissioning group and as drama commissioner and head of development for Film4, where her credits included Slumdog Millionaire and Shameless.

The Stranger has published original comics, illustrations, or graphic art by such notable cartoonists as Tony Millionaire, Peter Bagge, Ellen Forney, Megan Kelso, Al Columbia, Chris Ware, R. Crumb, Jim Woodring, and K. Thor Jensen.

He has also appeared on Millionaire as an expert for the " Ask the Expert " lifeline.

The series was taped in New York, and was the second million-dollar game show that Philbin has hosted ( the first being the American network version Who Wants To Be A Millionaire ?).

Millionaire has occasionally drawn X-rated adaptations of his familiar Maakies characters ( e. g. " Shtuppi Eisberg, the Libidinous Penguin " instead of Drinky Crow ) for Screw, Legal Action Comics and other explicit venues.

For many years he has also supported the National Council for One Parent Families, having written about his family background for the organisation, and also raised £ 32, 000 for the charity on a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?.

In film-making Elstree Studios has risen to prominence ; landmark films and television that have been produced there include the first and second Star Wars films ( chronologically, i. e. Episodes IV and V ), Indiana Jones, and Superman, and British television shows Dancing on Ice, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, and Big Brother.

McGuire had to sacrifice his on-air commitments including hosting The AFL Footy Show and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, as well as AFL commentary, for what turned out to be a very short term tenure.

In 2003 Sydney resident John J Leonard also claimed to have originated a format substantially similar to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ( although it had no Lifelines ).

The ' Joe Millionaire ' series was a benchmark of a whole era of Fox Television reality shows that followed a similar formula — perpetrating a big scam on a group of unsuspecting contestants, with the audience watching them go through embarrassing situations, only to provide a ' happy ending ' by awarding the eventual survivors a large sum of money.

Other popular programs included Show do Ratinho ( Ratinho's Show, with a similar format to The Jerry Springer Show ), Show do Milhão ( The Million Show, similar to Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

* SA-012 Millionaire A board game similar to Monopoly.

), similar to the " Is that Your Final Answer " in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?.

was originally intended as a real-time game that could be played in conjunction with a broadcast TV programme using a similar multiple choice format as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?.

* The Questions game: This is somewhat similar to Who Wants to be a Millionaire or The Weakest Link.

( based on the original British format of the international Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

The American TV broadcaster ABC had a surprise hit with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, an import of a successful British quiz format which launched another wave of interest in trivia.

In Game KNB ?, the contestant needed to get three out of five correct answers to get to the next round, and each round, the prize became higher ( this incarnation was closest in format to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?).

That same year, Grant won $ 125, 000 for charity on the " Rock Star Edition " of " Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ".

In 1999-2000 Millionaire was the first prime-time game show since " The $ 64, 000 Question " to finish first in the US season-ending Nielsen ratings.

In the 1990s future Who Wants to be a Millionaire ( USA ) executive producer Michael Davies attempted to revive The $ 64, 000 Question in the US as The $ 640, 000 Question for ABC, before abandoning that effort in favour of the British hit.

* Robert ( Bob ) House, fourth person in the U. S. to win $ 1 million dollars on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Forbes, having done a study of " America's Millionaire Capitals ," found that the average net worth of Old Westbury households was $ 19. 6M.

* Quiz $ Millionaire ( Japanese version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Private is known for high-budget adult movies such as the two-part series " Millionaire " directed by Alessandro del Mar with a reported budget of $ 1. 9 million.

She appeared as a contestant in 2001 on a special edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, winning $ 125, 000 for charity.

In 1999, television producer Michael Davies attempted to revive Question as The $ 640, 000 Question for ABC, before abandoning that project in favor of producing an American version of the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?.

In 2000, responding to the success of Millionaire, CBS bought the rights to the property in a reported effort to produce another revival attempt, The $ 1, 064, 000 Question, to be hosted by sportscaster Greg Gumbel.

Vieira was a celebrity contestant on the Philbin version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire before she hosted the syndicated version, winning $ 250, 000 for her charity.

Millionaire Sam Stone ( DeVito ) intends to murder his hated wife, Barbara ( Midler ) to gain control of her $ 15 million family fortune and run off with his mistress Carol.

* Mr. Clean's first name was the subject of a $ 250, 000 question on an episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

* Clifford Plumpton, $ 500, 000 winner on the Australian edition of " Who wants to be a Millionaire?

That show wasn't a hit but his $ 1, 250 investment in The Happiest Millionaire ( 1957 ) gave him the success he needed to leave school and embark upon a career in entertainment.

The wins and consecutive days records were broken by 100 % contestant Ian Lygo in 1998, while the winnings record was broken by Michael Shutterly during the original 15-night run of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 1999, where he won $ 500, 000.

On November 26, 2004, Timanus appeared again on Millionaire, this time as a contestant, and won $ 50, 000 in prize money.

* In an episode of Millionaire Hot Seat in Australia, contestant Barry Soraghan had a question for $ 1 million, which was about the Warner Brothers and which one of them had died on the eve of " The Jazz Singer ".

The first game offered by Florida Lottery was Millionaire, a $ 1 scratch-off game with a US $ 1 million annuity prize.

In 2000, Carpenter appeared in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Champions Edition, in which previous contestants who won $ 250, 000 –$ 1, 000, 000 played again, with half their winnings going to their favorite charities.