Super Millionaire

I've always been a huge game show fan. The Game Show Network is one of my favorite channels. When I was a kid, I loved watching Win Lose or Draw, Password, Family Feud, Sale of the Century and numerous other game shows when I was on summer vacation and Christmas break. So when I heard Super Millionaire was coming back, I was pretty excited. But when I heard it was just for a week, I was disapointed.

Tonight was the first installment of SM, and man was it great. Occasionally I've watched the new Millionaire hosted by that woman from the View. It's ok, but she isn't as personable, and doesn't bring out the character in the contestants like Regis does. Regis makes the show so much more interesting. Tonights SM was amazing, better than I remembered. They added two new lifelines, one called 3 Wisemen which was a panel of three people who are trivia type experts and double dip which lets the contestant guess twice at the correct answer. So basically it's a new spin on the 50/50 lifeline. The other neat thing is that you can win up to 10 million dollars. You get to use your first three lifelines on the $1000-$100,000 questions then when you hit the big bucks in excess of $250,000 you can use any of the three lifelines you have left, plus the two new ones. The first contestant on new millionaire won $500,000.

I'm hoping that SM pulls down huge ratings and ABC brings it back on a more regular basis. I think ABC sort of ran the show ragged by putting it on 5 times a week. I would be happy if they ran it once or twice a week. We'll have to see what happens...