‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ Ends Summer Run With Consecutive Weeks of Ratings Growth

By Michael Schneider

Michael Schneider

Variety Editor at Large

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ABC recently decided to move some of this summer’s run of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” into the fall — and perhaps it doesn’t hurt that it’s doing very well so far this season.

“Millionaire,” hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, has now been the No. 1 primetime entertainment program with viewers for the third week in a row, growing every week since its season premiere on July 22. The show’s most recent episode, on Aug. 12, averaged 4.41 million viewers (up 2% from the previous week’s 4.33 million) according to Nielsen’s National Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings.

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