The millionaire show
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The millionaire show |
| Country of production | Austria |
| Year (s) | since 2000 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 851+ (+44 celebrity specials and 4 Christmas specials) in 15+ seasons |
| Broadcasting cycle |
weekly |
| genre | Quiz show |
| idea | David Briggs Mike Whitehill Steven Knight |
| Moderation |
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| First broadcast | January 24, 2000 on ORF 1 |
The Millionenshow is the Austrian version of the British TV quiz Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? . It has been broadcast since 2000 and has been moderated by Armin Assinger since 2002 . Like the German version Wer wird Millionär? it is produced in a studio of Nobeo GmbH in Hürth near Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia and broadcast by ORF , with the episodes running on ORF 2 on Monday . As a rule, three programs are recorded every two weeks on Wednesday and Thursday from 5:30 p.m.
The broadcast
At the beginning the show was called Everything is Possible - The 10-Million-Show, the main prize was ten million schillings (about 730,000 €), the show that started in January 2000 was hosted by Rainhard Fendrich . Anything is possible alluded to the slogan of the Austrian Lotteries , which sponsored the show. After six successful episodes, however, no new contracts could be negotiated with the moderator and sponsor, so the show was renamed Die Millionenshow . From then on, Barbara Stöckl moderated the format, as the first woman in the world, from May 2000 to September 2002. She was then replaced by Armin Assinger , who continues to lead the show to this day. Since the introduction of the euro , the maximum win in Austria has been 1,000,000 euros, but the profit levels differ from those of other versions.
On February 25, 2007, an episode was broadcast live for the first time to mark the 500th edition of the show. The public joker was converted into an "Austria joker". The entire Austrian audience was able to assist the candidate in answering a question by taking part in a telephone TED survey.
production
The first episodes, like the German ones , were produced in Hilversum in the Netherlands. Building your own film set for the millionaire show was refused for reasons of cost. At the turn of the year 2000/2001 production moved to the NOB studios (now Nobeo studios) in Hürth near Cologne. The show was produced in Holland by Endemol Nederland, in Germany the local Endemol subsidiary (now Endemol Shine Germany) took over the production. Until winter 2001/2002, the logo consisted of a simple blue circle with the inscription "Everything is possible" or "The Millionaire Show", after which it was based on the international model and, like the British original, contained green question marks.
joker
Main joker
- 50:50 wild card
This joker removes two wrong answers to make the decision easier.
- Telephone joker
There is also the option of speaking to a telephone expert of your choice for 30 seconds. The telephone joker was expanded from three to five possible candidates in 2007, but this was later reversed.
- Public joker
This joker acts like a poll. The viewers, who think they know the correct answer, vote as soon as the candidate needs the joker. The result is then shown as a diagram on the candidate's display.
Additional joker
In Austria, like in Germany, there has been the option of waiving the second security level at 15,000 euros in exchange for a fourth joker.
- Switch
There has been an additional joker since 2007. Today this is the "switch joker". If a candidate cannot or does not want to answer a question, he can swap it for another (which of course also appears completely random question). The Joker was introduced in September 2019. Until then, the “second chance” was the additional joker with which you could give a second answer if you gave a wrong answer. The joker had to be taken before the answer. Often this joker was used in combination after the 50:50 joker, as a candidate could then give the correct answer without his own knowledge. The second chance was taken much less often than the new audience joker in the German show, since the candidate was obliged to give a second tip after a wrong answer and was not allowed to get out.
Profit levels
The profits with a dark gray background are the security levels. When using the risk variant with four jokers, the second security level is not applicable (15,000 euros, from 2002).
| From 2002 | Celebrity Millionaire Show | Celebrity Millionaire Show (until 2010) |
Junior millionaire show | Until 2002 | Celebrity Millionaire Show (until 2002) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 euros | 100 euros | 100 euros | 100 euros | 1,000 ATS | ATS 5,000 |
| 200 euros | 200 euros | 200 euros | 200 euros | ATS 2,000 | 10,000 ATS |
| 300 Euro | 300 Euro | 300 Euro | 300 Euro | ATS 3,000 | ATS 15,000 |
| 400 euros | 400 euros | 400 euros | 400 euros | ATS 5,000 | ATS 20,000 |
| 500 euro | 500 euro | 500 euro | 500 euro | 10,000 ATS | ATS 25,000 |
| 1,000 euros | 1,000 euros | 1,000 euros | 1,000 euros | ATS 20,000 | ATS 50,000 |
| 2,000 euros | 2,000 euros | 2,000 euros | 1,500 euros | 40,000 ATS | ATS 100,000 |
| 5,000 euros | 4,000 euros | 3,000 euros | 2,000 euros | 80,000 ATS | ATS 150,000 |
| 10,000 euros | 6,000 euros | 4,000 euros | 3,000 euros | 160,000 ATS | ATS 200,000 |
| 15,000 euros | 10,000 euros | 5,000 euros | 5,000 euros | 320,000 ATS | ATS 250,000 |
| 30,000 euros | 15,000 euros | 10,000 euros | 10,000 euros | ATS 640,000 | 300,000 ATS |
| 75,000 euros | 25,000 euros | 20,000 euros | 20,000 euros | ATS 1,250,000 | 350,000 ATS |
| 150,000 euros | 35,000 euros | 30,000 euros | 30,000 euros | ATS 2,500,000 | 400,000 ATS |
| 300,000 euros | 50,000 euros | 40,000 euros | 50,000 euros | ATS 5,000,000 | ATS 450,000 |
| 1,000,000 euros | 75,000 euros | 50,000 euros | 100,000 euros | ATS 10,000,000 | 500,000 ATS |
Grand Prize Winner
| date | winner | Profit | broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 19, 2001 | Anton Sutterlüty ( Vorarlberg ) | 10 million shillings | |
| November 11, 2002 | Christiane de Piero ( Carinthia ) | 1 million euros | |
| May 9, 2003 | Sigrid Weiß-Lutz ( Styria ) | 1 million euros | |
| November 3, 2003 | Karin Huber ( Upper Austria ) | 1 million euros | Europe special |
| March 14, 2005 | Elfriede Awadalla ( Vienna ) | 1 million euros | |
| September 18, 2006 | Heide Gondek ( Vienna ) | 1 million euros | |
| October 20, 2007 | Philip Aschner ( Hallein ) | 100,000 euros | Junior special |
| June 28, 2008 | Marion Eidenhammer ( Upper Austria ) | 100,000 euros | Junior special |
| May 23, 2009 | Stefan Schwaiger ( Maishofen ) | 100,000 euros | Junior special |
| October 24, 2011 | Andreas Goldberger and Nina Hartmann | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| October 22, 2012 | Thomas Geierspichler and Günther Matzinger | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| November 26, 2012 | Andrea Spatzek | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| 13th of May 2013 | Sonya Kraus | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| 2nd December 2013 | Stephan Eberharter | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| December 9, 2013 | Mathias Stockinger ( Lower Austria ) | 1 million euros | |
| February 10, 2014 | Kristina Sprenger | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| February 2, 2015 | Angelika Kirchschlager | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| February 2, 2015 | Julia Cencig | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| 23rd November 2015 | Dietrich Siegl | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
| 4th June 2018 | Hooman Vojdani ( Burgenland ) | 1 million euros | |
| 2nd December 2019 | Wolf Bachofner | 75,000 euros | Celebrity Millionaire Show |
Special editions and celebrity editions
Celebrity millionaire shows also take place at irregular intervals, and there was also a Europe millionaire show (with questions about Europe and EU expansion), an edition for children, for couples, for twins, for young fathers and mothers, a generation -Special (with one child, one adult and one senior citizen), a mayor special in which mayors could raise money for a project in their community, and a high school graduate special.
Essentially, the same applies to the celebrity millionaire shows in Austria as to the celebrity specials of the German version .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Millionenshow (TV series 2000-) - IMDb
- ↑ The Millionaire Show : Episode Guide . Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ Roman Horacek: 195,000 euros for Österreichische Sporthilfe at Armin Assinger's "Celebrity Millionaire Show". ORF press office (via APA), October 24, 2011
- ↑ Millionaire Show : Are you smarter than the sports stars? Kronen Zeitung, November 26, 2008, accessed September 21, 2019.
- ↑ ORF "Celebrity Millionaire Show": 125,000 euros for "Licht ins Dunkel". APA press release, January 29, 2018
- ↑ ORF "Celebrity Millionaire Show": 140,000 euros for "Licht ins Dunkel" . OTS notification dated February 11, 2019, accessed on February 15, 2019. -
- ↑ Armin Assinger presents: "The Celebrity Millionaire Show" for the benefit of the Life Ball . Retrieved June 4, 2019.
Web links
- The millionaire show in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website