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ABC May Phone an Old Friend: Regis

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | January 12, 2009 | +

Last night Slumdog Millionaire—the Danny Boyle film centered on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—cleaned up at the Golden Globes. Now it looks like the American version of Millionaire may be a winner too. ABC, reports TV Week, is considering bringing the show back for a summer run to mark its 10th anniversary. With Regis Philbin, says Josef Adalian, not daytime host Meredith Vieira. 

I suppose this is not a bad time to place a bet on 1999-2000 nostalgia. Can they also bring back monochromatic shirts and ties and the pre-AOL merger Time Warner stock price? 

(True story: Millionaire debuted in the U.S. a few weeks after I started as TIME’s TV critic. A publicist sent me a tape of the British version, mentioning that the show was huge there and it just might do pretty well on ABC in the summer. I promptly put the tape on my shelf and forgot about it. Like any American was going to watch that on primetime television!)

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  • plukasiak

    not a bad idea, but they’re gonna have to add some bells and whistles to it, like Deal or No Deal has by adding times when the number of million dollar cases goes up each time someone doesn’t get the million dollar prize.

    My suggestion would be to take the prize amount out of the queue each time someone wins that amount until someone gets to 1,000,000….

  • oderal

    in this type of economy right now it could work but it not like any other game show isn’t giving away million dollars. So hopefully people will love to answer questions for bucks.

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