"Besides Meredith Vieira, who has been the host of the US version of ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"" since it began airing in 1999?"
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. game show) Millionaire?" franchise. The original U.S. version aired on ABC from August 16, 1999, to June 27, 2002, and was hosted by Regis Philbin. The daily syndicated version of the show began airing on September 16, 2002, and was hosted for eleven seasons by Meredith Vieira until May 31, 2013. Later hosts included Cedric the Entertainer in the 2013–14 season, Terry Crews in the following season (2014–15), and Chris Harrison, who began hosting on September 14, 2015. As the first U.S. network game show to offer a million-dollar top prize, the show made television history by becoming one of the highest-rated
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Western media as the "real-life "Slumdog Millionaire"". Of all the international versions, the Japanese version has produced the most number (38) of top prize winners, including juniors. The most recent "Millionaire" winner is Hansani Kavindi in the Sri Lankan version, who won Rs. 2,000,000 on December 8, 2018. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" debuted in Britain on 4 September 1998, with episodes broadcast on the ITV network. When it began airing, the show was hosted by Chris Tarrant, and became an instant hit – at its peak in 1999, one edition of the show was watched by over 19