Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (Euro Republics)

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a Euro Republican television game show which would offer a maximum cash prize of €1,000,000 for answering 15 successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty as a team or singular.

The show was originally based on and follows the same general format of the original version of the show from the United Kingdom, and is part of the international Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? franchise.

It is produced by 2waytraffic International (formerly Celador International) and TV3 Productions. The show was first premiered on 1st January 1999 on TV3 as a nightly ten-day event. The show was first hosted by Jonathan Howard, but it was replaced in 2019 by Joe Marvin.

Lifelines
In the Euro Republican edition of WWTBAM, there are six lifelines.
 * Phone A Friend is where a contestant can call their friend or family member to ask them the question to see if they know the answer. It was sponsored by Eurocom throughout the 2000’s but was replaced by O2 in 2012. Introduced from the start.
 * 50:50: the computer eliminates two wrong answers from the four possible ones, leaving only one remaing wrong answer, and the correct one.
 * Ask The Audience: the audience takes voting pads attached to their seats and votes for the answer that they believe is correct. The computer tallies the results and displays them as percentages to the contestant.
 * Switch the Question – The computer replaces the current question with another of the same difficulty. The contestant can not reinstate any lifelines used on the original question. Introduced in the “Evolution“ era in 2008.
 * Double Dip – One of two lifelines created for the Super Millionaire spin-off of the US version. When used, this lifeline allowed contestants to make two guesses at a question, but forbade them from using any other lifelines they had left or from walking away with their current winnings. If the contestant first used 50:50 and then used Double Dip on the same question, the correct would be guaranteed.
 * Jump The Question: Jumps to the next question

Who Wants to Be a Mini Millionaire?
Between 2001 and 2008 and again from 2021 onwards, a junior version of the show, entitled Who Wants to Be a Mini Millionaire? airs on TV3 as part of it's children's strands, The Fix and 3C. The show featured contestants between the ages of 8 and 17, and often includes easier questions than it's main counterpart.

International broadcast
In the UK, it was originally shown on ITV2 from 1999 to 2004 and afterwards on Challenge TV from 2004 to 2016.