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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (American game show)

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, the American adaptation of the British quiz show, premiered on ABC August 16, 1999 with Regis Philbin, offered the first US network $1 million game show prize, ran in syndication 2002–2019, and returned as a Jimmy Kimmel celebrity edition.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a British quiz show format created in 1998 by David Briggs, Mike Whitehill, and Steven Knight, first aired on ITV with Chris Tarrant, later Jeremy Clarkson. Contestants answer 15 multiple-choice questions with lifelines for a million-pound top prize; the format has been licensed to over 100 countries.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (British game show)

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK, ITV, first aired 4 September 1998) is the British version of the quiz format by Briggs, Knight, and Whitehill: 15 questions, four lifelines, £1 million top prize, hosted by Chris Tarrant then Jeremy Clarkson, six winners.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Mike Nichols's directorial debut, adapts Edward Albee's play with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; 13 Oscar nominations, 5 wins, and the first adults-only label that helped end the Hays Code.

Who's Nailin' Paylin?

Who's Nailin' Paylin? is a 2008 Hustler Video adult comedy parody of Sarah Palin, directed by Jerome Tanner, produced by Larry Flynt, starring Lisa Ann as Serra Paylin, released November 4, 2008, and a top adult DVD seller.

Who's Singin' Over There?

Who's Singin' Over There? (Ko to tamo peva) is a 1980 Yugoslav tragicomedy by Slobodan Šijan and Dušan Kovačević about bus passengers heading to Belgrade on April 5, 1941, the day before the Nazi bombing; Serbia's most celebrated classic.

Who's That Knocking at My Door

Who's That Knocking at My Door (originally I Call First) is Martin Scorsese's 1960s independent feature debut, starring Harvey Keitel as J.R., an Italian-American New Yorker unable to accept his girlfriend's past; released 1969 after a four-year, stop-start production.

Who's the Boss?

Who's the Boss? is an American ABC sitcom (1984–1992, 196 episodes) starring Tony Danza as housekeeper Tony Micelli and Judith Light as executive Angela Bower; its Amazon Freevee sequel was cancelled in 2024.

Who's the Murderer (明星大侦探)

Who's the Murderer (明星大侦探, later 大侦探) is a Mango TV Chinese celebrity mystery variety show licensed from JTBC's Crime Scene, premiering March 27, 2016. Six players, one detective, five suspects; only the murderer lies. It popularized jubensha and averages 8.9 on Douban.

Who's The Winner

Who's The Winner (胜者为王) is a 1991-1993 ATV Hong Kong gambling-drama trilogy, 82 episodes, starring Nathan Chan, Jackie Lui, and Simon Yam; rights now held by Disney, streamed on Disney+ since 2023.

Who's the Winner (1992 TV series)

Who's the Winner, also known as 勝者為王, is a 30-episode Hong Kong gambling drama aired by ATV from October to November 1992, starring Chan Ting-wai.

Whoever Did This

Whoever Did This is a November 2002 episode of The Sopranos in which Tony Soprano kills Ralph Cifaretto after a stable fire kills his racehorse.

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, 1955) is an American comedian, actor, and EGOT winner known for The Color Purple, Ghost, Sister Act, hosting the Oscars, and moderating The View since 2007.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American TV series)

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (US), also called the American Whose Line, is an improv comedy series adapted from the British original, hosted by Drew Carey on ABC from 1998 and revived with Aisha Tyler on The CW in 2013, starring Stiles, Mochrie, and Brady.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (British TV series)

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (WLIIA?) is a British improvisational comedy panel show on Channel 4, 1988–1998, hosted by Clive Anderson, created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson from a BBC Radio 4 format, 119 episodes plus specials.

Why Change Your Wife?

Why Change Your Wife? is a 1920 Cecil B. DeMille silent marital comedy from Famous Players-Lasky, third in his marriage-film trilogy, starring Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, and Bebe Daniels, released May 2, 1920.

Why Cheat India

Why Cheat India is a 2019 Hindi drama directed by Soumik Sen, starring Emraan Hashmi as exam-racket conman Rakesh Singh. Originally titled Cheat India, renamed after CBFC objection; released 18 January 2019, earned Rs 6.8 crore opening weekend and flopped.

Why Did I Get Married Too?

Why Did I Get Married Too? is a 2010 American comedy-drama written and directed by Tyler Perry, the sequel to his 2007 film Why Did I Get Married?

Why Did I Get Married?

Why Did I Get Married? is a 2007 American comedy-drama written and directed by Tyler Perry, adapted from his stage play, about four couples confronting infidelity.

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022 TV series)

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022) is Hugh Laurie's three-part BritBox adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1934 novel, starring Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton as amateur sleuths Bobby Jones and Frankie Derwent, premiered 12 April 2022, later on ITV1 in 2023.

Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film)

Why Do Fools Fall in Love is a 1998 Gregory Nava biographical drama, also known as the Frankie Lymon story, about three women claiming to be the singer's widow; Warner Bros., $12.5M gross, 54% Tomatometer.

Why Don't You Play in Hell? (地獄でなぜ悪い)

Why Don't You Play in Hell? (地獄でなぜ悪い) is a 2013 Japanese action comedy-horror-yakuza film by Sion Sono, starring Jun Kunimura and Fumi Nikaidō.

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은?)

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은?) is Bae Yong-kyun's 1989 Korean Buddhist art film about three monks in a mountain temple; it won the 1989 Locarno Golden Leopard, the first Korean win there.

Why Her (왜 오수재인가)

Why Her (왜 오수재인가, Wae Osujaeinga) is a 2022 SBS Friday-Saturday Korean drama, 16 episodes, starring Seo Hyun-jin as demoted lawyer Oh Soo-jae and Hwang In-yeop as law student Gong Chan; it peaked at 11.2% Nielsen ratings.

Why Him?

Why Him? is a 2016 American comedy directed by John Hamburg, in which overprotective father Bryan Cranston clashes with his daughter's billionaire boyfriend, played by James Franco.

Why I Dress Up for Love (着飾る恋には理由があって)

Why I Dress Up for Love (着飾る恋には理由があって, Kikazaru Koi ni wa Riyuu ga Atte) is a 2021 TBS Tuesday-10pm Japanese romance drama, 10 episodes, written by Arisa Kaneko, starring Haruna Kawaguchi and Ryusei Yokohama, theme song by Gen Hoshino.

Why Is He Still Single? (他为什么依然单身)

Why Is He Still Single? (他为什么依然单身), also known as 不能结婚的男人, is a 2025 Tencent Video Chinese romantic light comedy remake of the Japanese drama Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, starring Wallace Huo as anti-marriage designer Yu Yu and Zhu Zhu as doctor Gu Yejia, 16 episodes.

Why We Fight

Why We Fight names three US screen works: Frank Capra's seven-film 1942-45 Army orientation series, Eugene Jarecki's 2005 Sundance-winning documentary on the military-industrial complex, and a 2017 fighting docu-series.

Why We Fight (Band of Brothers)

"Why We Fight" is episode 9 of HBO's Band of Brothers (2001), directed by David Frankel, written by John Orloff, following Lewis Nixon as Easy Company discovers the Landsberg concentration camp in April 1945.

Why Women Kill

Why Women Kill is a dark comedy anthology series created by Marc Cherry, airing 2019-2021 on CBS All Access/Paramount+. Season 1 spans three decades with Goodwin, Liu, and Howell-Baptiste; Season 2 is set in 1949 with Tolman and Parrilla; cancelled after two seasons.