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

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (also known as WW2BAM) is a Filipino game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The main goal of the game is to win 2 million Philippine pesos (earlier 1 million) by answering 15 multiple-choice questions correctly. There are four lifelines: 50:50 (fifty-fifty), Phone-a-Friend, People Speak, and Switch. The latter two replaced Ask the Audience, which was used until the 2010 seasons. The show requires the contestants to answer 15 questions correctly in order to reach the jackpot price of 2 million pesos.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was broadcast from 2000 to 2002 on the government-sequestered Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, produced by Viva Television, and was hosted by actor Christopher de Leon and returned as the entertainment network Viva-TV channel 13 on February 25, 2012 hosted by box-office king Bossing Vic Sotto as the most.

On May 23, 2009, the game show returned under a new home over TV5, with actor-host-comedian Vic Sotto as the new host.

The show's season finale last October 7, 2012 to give way give way to another game show hosted by Sotto, Million Peso Money Drop (the Philippine version of Million Dollar Money Drop created by Endemol).

2000-2002: Viva/IBC Version
The first version of the show was hosted by actor Christopher de Leon. The first season of the original Millionaire, which began on November 20, 2000, had its 15th question prize of P1,000,000. In 2001, the final question's prize was doubled to P2,000,000.

The show lost its popularity soon after its original studio in Parañaque City (Viva Television Studio, the same one used by the Philippine version of The Weakest Link) was destroyed by a fire, and after the show moved to Riverbanks Center in Marikina City. Its last original episode was aired December 14, 2002.

No one has ever won the game by way of answering all fifteen questions correctly in this incarnation. There have been two contestants who went the closest: DLSU professor Amelita Lopez-Forbes and actress Sharon Cuneta, who each answered 14 questions correctly and won a million pesos in separate instances in 2001.

The money tree used in the IBC version is as follows (bold values indicate guaranteed amounts): (In the 2000 edition, the last three tiers were P400,000, P500,000, and P1 million.)
 * P1,000
 * P2,000
 * P3,000
 * P5,000
 * 1) P10,000
 * P20,000
 * P30,000
 * P40,000
 * P50,000
 * 1) P100,000
 * 2) P200,000
 * 3) P300,000
 * 4) P500,000
 * P1,000,000
 * 1) P2 MILLION (top prize)

2009-present: TV5 Version
On April 2009, plugs about the "comeback" of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? started airing on TV5 (Associated Broadcasting Company, and is the first show taken from IBC 13). Vic Sotto was also announced to host the show. A promo is being sponsored by the network in connection to its comeback.
 * P1,000
 * P3,000
 * P5,000
 * P10,000
 * 1) P20,000
 * P35,000
 * P50,000
 * P70,000
 * 1) P100,000
 * 2) P150,000
 * 3) P250,000
 * 4) P400,000
 * 5) P600,000
 * P1,000,000
 * 1) P2,000,000 (top prize)

2012-present: Viva-TV Relaunch
On February 2012, after an almost 10-year hiatus, Viva Television announced to comeback of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? airing on Viva-TV on IBC with the newest Viva star and box-office king Bossing Vic Sotto that relaunch on February 25, 2012. On the other hand, the game show also relaunched The Weakest Link, hosted by Edu Manzano which airs on Saturday nights.

This time, it would run only on Saturdays at 8:30 pm instead of weekdays when primetime success during the times where animated series aired the primetime slot and daytime slot on weekends and asianovelas were the hit on the primestime slot. A promo is being sponsored by the network in connection to comeback acquired license of the international version of the game show.

Celebrity games
The following is the list of celebrity player during Saturday on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.
 * Judy Ann Santos (July 7, 2012)
 * Cesar Montano (July 14, 2012)
 * Anne Curtis (July 21, 2012)
 * AJ Muhlach (July 28, 2012; winner in P2 million)
 * Anja Aguilar (August 4, 2012)
 * Maricel Soriano (August 11, 2012)
 * Robin Padilla (August 18, 2012)
 * Jerome Ponce and Janella Salvador (August 25, 2012)
 * Cristine Reyes (September 1, 2012)
 * Onemig Bondoc (September 8, 2012; winner in P2 million)
 * Sandara Park (September 15, 2012)
 * Coco Martin (September 22, 2012)
 * Anja Aguilar (September 29, 2012; winner in P2 million)
 * Vice Ganda (October 6, 2012)
 * Jodi Sta. Maria and Richard Yap (October 13, 2012)
 * Andi Eigenmann (October 20, 2012)
 * Alfred Vargas (October 27, 2012; winner in P2 million)
 * Ella Cruz (November 3, 2012)
 * Daniel Padilla (November 10, 2012)
 * Ashley Rivera aka Petra Mahalimuyak (November 17, 2012)
 * DJ Durano (November 24, 2012)
 * Anja Aguilar (December 1, 2012; winner in P2 million)
 * Dingdong Avanzado (December 8, 2012)
 * Charlie Green (December 15, 2012)
 * Anja Aguilar (December 22, 2012)
 * Vilma Santos (December 29, 2012)

Notable events

 * On Septemebr 29, 2012, singing champion Anja Aguilar will guest to promote the newest concert scene for staged her first major concert Anja Aguilar: The Concert, in the Smart Araneta Coliseum as well as the Philippine concert tour while Anja she is the second celebrity player to win at P2,000,000.

Ratings
During those days, local dramas were the most popular shows at primetime airs everyday, but when Who Wants to be a Millionaire sparked a game show during Saturdays. Its popularity is undeniable, rating in a 25 percent of total audience shares in that Saturday timeslot dominated by ABS-CBN's TV Patrol Weekend and GMA's Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho. It even had an all time high, 38 percent audience shares. As of October 1, 2012, it was moved to Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at the 6:30pm slot and proved its supremacy gearing in total of 40.5% ratings share in the third place beating its news programs GMA 7's 24 Oras and ABS-CBN's TV Patrol, while the weekend continues to its timeslot.