Television Appeal of Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Television Appeal of Who Wants to be a Millionaire
One of my favorite T.V. shows is called, Who wants to Be a Millionaire. It is a really great show. It is hosted by Regis Philbin who is a highly energized, cool, and funny man. The show was created by Michael Davies, who also created the show called Who’s Line is It Anyway? This show is my favorite because it is vicarious, the host is real fun, and it is a good learning experience. To play the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire game you must answer the questions correctly and every time you answer correctly you move up and collect more money. For example, the first question is worth $100 dollars and you work your way up to a million. You are allowed a 50/50 where the computer takes away two wrong answers and leaves one correct one and one incorrect one. You are also allowed to phone a friend and ask the audience, but you are only allowed to use these three things once. They are called lifelines. Also, the person who gets to be chosen must get the faster finger, which is usually a question to put something in order in the fasted time. Then, the person goes to the “hot seat”.
Many game shows are vicarious. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a show that puts you in the hot seat. It makes you feel like you are going to win the million dollars. Most of the people who watch it are playing and answering with the person in the hot seat. There was this one time I was watching and the man in the hot seat was going for a million dollars and my family and I were playing along with him and we were so excited to see him go for it and I knew the answer to the question. I was screaming, “The answer is C! The answer is C!” Of course the man couldn’t hear me but I was still screaming it at the television. It made me feel like I was right there in that hot seat.
It is a great learning experience for many people. The questions consist of very general information. This information contains facts good for everybody to know. No one knows everything. For example, one...