Who Wants to Be a Millionaire returns Sunday, October 18 at 9:00 p.m. Philbin died of natural causes July 25, one month shy of his 89th birthday. 'It's a great game, but Regis is the reason.' 'And that's why people love this game,' Kimmel goes on. And I'm not just being false humble by saying that. The contestants are frontline workers in the battle against COVID-19. Later in the video, Kimmel tells Philbin during a visit to the new Who Wants to Be a Millionaire set: 'No one will ever be better at doing this than you. NEW YORK - 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' returns to primetime on ABC Sunday night, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. 'Because I'm hosting this show, but this is his show.' 'It was exciting to just have him there,' Kimmel says.
ABC will remember Regis with a nearly two-minute video retrospective of his time on the show, that includes current host Jimmy Kimmel remembering having Regis on the set of the current Millionaire incarnation, which debuted last year. ABC aired five episodes of this spin-off during the week of February 22, 2004, and an additional seven episodes later that year in May. Philbin hosted the primetime version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from its 1999 debut and for all of its primetime run and limited returns and specials through 2009. In 2004, Philbin returned to host 12 episodes of a spin-off program titled Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire in which contestants could potentially win 10,000,000. ABC/Richard Cartwright(LOS ANGELES) - When Who Wants to Be a Millionaire returns to ABC Sunday for its second-season premiere, it'll pay tribute to its former host: the late TV legend Regis Philbin.
