Millionaire Hot Seat
| Millionaire Hot Seat | |
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| Also known as | 'Hot Seat' |
| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Eddie McGuire |
| Theme music composer | Ramon Covalo |
| Composer(s) | Ramon Covalo Keith Strachan Matthew Strachan |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 1,499 (as of 11 October 2016) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
GTV-9 Melbourne, Victoria (2009–10) Docklands Studios Melbourne (2011–present) |
| Running time | 30 minutes (with commercials)(2009-2016) 60 minutes (2017-) |
| Production company(s) | 2waytraffic |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nine Network |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 20 April 2009 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by |
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1 vs. 100 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Question | Value |
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| 1 | $100 |
| 2 | $200 |
| 3 | $300 |
| 4 | $500 |
| 5 | $1,000 |
| 6 | $1,500 |
| 7 | $2,500 |
| 8 | $4,000 |
| 9 | $6,000 |
| 10 | $10,000 |
| 11 | $20,000 |
| 12 | $50,000 |
| 13 | $100,000 |
| 14 | $250,000 |
| 15 | $1,000,000 |
Millionaire Hot Seat, also known as Hot Seat, is an Australian television quiz show. The show is a spin-off of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? which began airing on the Nine Network on 20 April 2009. As with the original version of the show, it is hosted by Eddie McGuire and follows a similar format.
Rumours about a new shortened version of Millionaire first began circulating in February 2009, and were confirmed when the Nine Network produced a pilot version of the format titled Millionaire: Russian Roulette in March 2009. The official title was announced as Millionaire Hot Seat, but this was later shortened to simply Hot Seat. The new format was originally promoted as a short-run series, with advertisements featuring McGuire exclaiming "20 nights! 20 million dollars!" It was announced on 7 April 2009 that Hot Seat would begin airing on 20 April 2009 in the 5:00 pm–6:00 pm weeknight timeslot and would compete against the high-rating game show, Deal or No Deal, on the Seven Network. As expected, the show's format was shortened to 30 minutes and given an overhaul of the rules and gameplay, in a system based on the Italian version of the show.
The Nine Network commissioned a second series of the show, to begin airing the week after the original 20-episode order had finished airing on 15 May 2009. The second series began airing on 18 May 2009.
A special prime time edition of Hot Seat aired at 8:00 pm on Monday, 8 June 2009, featuring a contestant, Barry Soraghan, playing for the format's first million-dollar question. Ultimately, Soraghan answered the question incorrectly, and won only $1,000. At the completion of the taped episode, Soraghan was visited live on air at his Blackburn home by McGuire, who then awarded him a two-week holiday for him and his family, as well as $5,000 in spending money. The episode achieved a ratings figure of 1,224,000 viewers nationally, and was the eleventh-highest rating program for the night, which was a vast improvement from the 812,000 viewers that Hot Seat managed in its regular timeslot on the same night.
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