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| "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" On Sale Next Week |
| Friday, June 16, 2006 |
From Tiscali News, the owner of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" is putting the worldwide property rights and the entire UK library up for sale. "Millionaire", owned currently by Celador, is arguably the most popular game show in the world, being seen in over 100 different countries and often being one of the top rated shows of that area. The first edition started on ITV in England in 1998. The US version, first hosted by Regis Philbin, began in 1999 and can still be seen in reruns on GSN. After massive series abuse, the show was cancelled while the syndicated version with Meredith Vieira lives on to this day. "Super Millionaire", the $10,000,000 edition, saw its last airing in 2004. Since then ABC has supposedly lost all rights to the show by not renewing it in the three year period required. More proof to the theory involves every sign of "Millionaire" erased from the ABC website and Disney World removing the show from its park.
Television rights are often sold, but TV executives have said they can't recall the total sale of such a giant format. It was rumored a few months ago that Endemol, who is quickly becoming the biggest production company in the world thanks to "Deal or No Deal", is wanting to buy the rights. If they do, this could, in my opinion, make it the largest entity in television game/reality shows, and one of the top of television in general. The bidding war is suppose to begin next week at the annual MIPTV program rights buying festival in Cannes, France. |
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