Season 40

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

Regis in the hot seat, a pulsing soundtrack, and a nation screaming answers at the set. Quiz-show architecture rebuilt as primetime siege warfare — lifelines, dramatic lights, and the fantasy that trivia could pay the mortgage. The format that hijacked ABC’s schedule at decade’s end and taught networks that a game could be an event again.

TV Flash files Season 40 of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1999–present) on ABC as a mid listed season (40; 40 of 42) — 7 listed hours, 2024-01-28–2024-03-17 from “Episode 1” (S40E01) to “Episode 7” (S40E07). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.