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ABC Pulls 'Domestic Showdown' for More 'Millionaire'

Thursday, May 13, 2004

03:13 PM PT

Off to a distant fourth place start to the May sweeps period, ABC will turn to an old friend for a ratings boost late in the month. With five installments of "Super Millionaire" already scheduled for the middle and end of May, ABC has added two more episodes for the last two nights of sweeps.

"Super Millionaire" will now air on Tuesday, May 25 and Wednesday, May 26, at 10 p.m. ET on both nights. The show was already scheduled to make its first May appearance this Sunday (May 16) at 9 p.m. immediately before the series finale of "The Practice." Subsequent episodes are set for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday of that week and the following Sunday, all at 10 p.m.

The extra episodes of "Millionaire" will air in the place originally set for "The Great Domestic Showdown," a two-night special hosted by Adam Carolla ("The Man Show"). The two-hour series, a reality quest for the next domestic diva, hasn't been rescheduled.

ABC resurrected "Millionaire" in its new "Super" form during the February sweeps period. The network aired five "Super Millionaire" specials, which averaged 13.5 million viewers apiece, well below what regular "Millionaire" used to produce in its heyday, but well above anything else that ABC was going to schedule.

The game's top prize is $10 million dollars, but the first go-round yielded only a single million dollar winner and one $500,000 winner.