‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ Returns To The Screen

The popular Tv Game Show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” returns to the screen, with contestants now standing a chance of winning the grand prize of ₦20 Million every week all year long!

Recall that the show which has been on the air for over thirteen years, was temporarily stopped on 25 June 2017, but  Hakeem Condotti, CEO of BLK HUT Media, the Licensee and production house revealed that the show will be coming back to entertain and educate Nigerians once again

His word: “As a company, our desire is to continuously deliver creative, intelligent, and professional content to the market for the people and partner brands; and in the production of a brand with ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ stature, we are able to show our range and capacity to this effect. We are proud to be bringing international quality content right to our screens again in Nigeria, be it on TV, Digital, Cable, or Mobile. As part of the much-needed COVID relief that we all need as a nation, ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is back to entertain, educate, and once again, have viewers on the edge of their seats and creating millionaires every week.”

The Show which firstly premiered on the 8th of October 2004, has an intricate set of rules, hosts a group of contestants in each episode in a preliminary round called “Fastest Finger First”; where all contenders for the whooping prize money are given a question and four answers by the host, which must then be placed within a particular order. The contestant who answers correctly in the fastest time goes on to play the main game.

Once a contestant enters the main game, they are asked increasingly difficult general knowledge questions by the host, with each question featuring four possible answers, to which the contestant must give the correct answer. Doing this wins the contestant certain amounts of money, as they advance in the game, hence increasing their prize fund.

During the game, the player has a set of lifelines that they may use only once to help them with a question, as well as two “safety nets”. These lifelines are: ’50/50′, where the computer eliminates two random wrong options, leaving the right option and the other remaining wrong option; ‘Phone a Friend’, where the contestant has 30 seconds to call one of their friends, read the question and four possible options to the friend, who then has the remaining time to offer input; and ‘Ask the Audience’, where audience members use touchpads to designate what they believe the correct option to be and the percentage of the audience choosing each specific option is displayed to the contestant.