Who Wants To Be A Millionaire return date announced as | UK News

ITV have lastly confirmed the return date of the late-night quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The long-running show, which first began airing in 1988, not too long ago wrapped up its fortieth sequence. The first episode aired on January 26 an got here to an finish on March 23 this 12 months.

The programme’s official Instagram account informed their devoted fan base: “That’s it for tonight and the current series! Join us again, later in the year for more #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire… Good night!” Many followers had no concept that the fortieth sequence had been cut up into two halves, that means that a second half will return to our screens in a matter of weeks.

The quiz can be back on ITV1 on Sunday May 4 at 8pm. Jeremy Clarkson will return as host after taking on the position from Chris Tarrant back in 2018.

The show determined to pause filming in 2014 however 4 years later the show was rebooted and has been on our screens ever since. The have been 690 episodes over the previous 27 years.

It comes after the celeb particular of the show aired on the finish of March which left viewers severely distracted by one obvious blunder. The instalment noticed BBC Pointless presenter Alexander Armstrong attempt to reply questions in a bid to win money for charity.

At the beginning of the show, Jeremy, 64, defined the principles of the sport and revealed that there was no viewers watching the show unfold. The episode initially aired back in 2021 when covid restrictions had been nonetheless in place during the worldwide pandemic.

He informed the host: “You’ve got four lifelines. You’ve got 50/50, two Phone a Friends, no Ask the Audience because there isn’t one, and then Ask the Host, which is when, if you’re in real trouble, you ask me. Is that all clear?”

But as the quiz started, the sound of an viewers applause performed over the scene which left many viewers at home scratching their heads.

Taking to X – previously identified as Twitter – one person penned: “Is there a clapping machine off camera or is the clapping added when the show is edited later?”

Another stated: “I guess the clapping must be put on afterwards which is pretty lousy. Not heard canned laughter since Scooby-Doo!” whereas a third requested: “Who’s doing all the clapping???”

A fourth chimed in with: “Watching Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionare right now. Jerermy Clarkson announced that there are 2 ‘phone a friend’ lives and no ‘ask the audience’ because there is no audience. So who on earth is applauding every time Alexander Armstrong gets a correct answer?”