Who Wants to be a Millionaire is a TV programme hosted by Chris Tarrant that has been on for many years now where contestants that appear on the show have the chance to win £1,000,000 by answering 15 questions correctly with the help of three lifelines: Phone a friend, Ask the audience and 50:50.

Basically when the show starts you have 10 potential contestants vying to get into the hotseat to win the big money by playing something called fastest finger first. They have to put 4 things in order, for example when famous people were born starting with the earliest. Whoever correctly answers this and in the quickest time joins Chris up front to win a million.

The first few questions are normally pretty easy and every question is of course multiple choice with 3 wrong answers and 1 correct answer. You need to answer 5 questions to go home with some money which is safe and that amount is £1000. Once at that level the money starts to rise a fair bit to £2000, £4,000, £8,000, £16,000, £32,000, £64,000 right up to a million on the 15th question. The next point where your money is safe is £32,000 and then you can't get less than that.

As you answer questions the contestant will get stuck somewhere along the line almost inevitably and when they do they they can choose to ask the audience where the audience vote on what they think the answer is, and the phone a friend where they phone a friend who is on their list to try and see if they know it, and then there is 50: 50 where the computer eliminates 2 wrong answers.

If I'm honest I used to watch this programme alot when it was first aired as it was a bit of a novelty and I like Chris Tarrant who I think is a good host. However, I have to admit I don't watch it as much any more as things always go stale and for me something that was exciting at first has lost alot of it's appeal for me. I have to admit I've never watched an episode where anyone has won the full amount as it does get pretty hard to acheive with the questions getting harder as you go along. The funny thing a question is only hard if you don't know it so if you know it then it's easy.

Worth watching if you've never seen it but I don't go out of my way to watch any more.