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'Super Millionaire' Gets Mid-May Berth on ABC

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

02:31 PM PT

As promised, ABC is bringing back "Super Millionaire" in May in hopes of getting a ratings bump as the TV season draws to a close.

The game show will stick to the same schedule as its successful February run, airing five times over the course of a week in May. It will premiere at 9 p.m. ET Sunday, May 16, preceding the series finale of "The Practice." Additional episodes will air at 10 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of that week.

The Sunday installment will displace the season finale of "Alias"; ABC doesn't have a new airdate for it yet.

"Super Millionaire's" first go-round produced one million-dollar winner and a second contestant who took home $500,000. The top prize in the game is $10 million.

ABC got solid ratings from the Regis Philbin-hosted show's first run. The five specials all finished in the Nielsen Top 30 and averaged 13.5 million viewers, with the Feb. 16 debut drawing close to 17.5 million. That's well below what the original "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" drew in its heyday a few years ago, but still good news to the struggling network.