Due to Cops, Live PD: Police Patrol, and Sheriffs: El Dorado County being pulled from both the network and syndication airwaves, Disney/ABC has begun helping stations fill their voids by leasing reruns of the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, which was cancelled at the end of the 2018-19 season. This is not to be confused with the original 1999 primetime series hosted by Regis Philbin or the 2020 reboot hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
The lease officially began this past Monday. The episodes are hosted by Chris Harrison and are from the series' final season (2018-19), in order of original air date. The first run began at the season premiere, while the second run, for stations that carry it, began with February 2019 episodes. Earlier this month, Deadline reported that Disney was touting Millionaire as a syndication replacement for Cops, which is now under their ownership.
A double run of Millionaire has quietly replaced a double run of Live PD: Police Patrol (which officially ends it syndication run at the end of this week) on The CW Plus, which applies to most CW affiliates in DMAs ranked 100 or lower. The episodes are airing in Live PD's former time slots of 12:00 and 12:30 AM weeknights, local time, or 11:00 and 11:30 PM in Alaska. Unlike Live PD's syndication run, Millionaire does not appear to offer a weekend run (the original run never had one, either, unlike other syndicated game shows such as Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Family Feud).
For DMAs above #100, only two markets have picked up Millionaire in time for this week, while four others will begin airing it next week.
Stations airing it as of 6/15...
San Francisco: KOFY 7 (independent) at 2:00 and 2:30 PM Pacific.
Las Vegas: KVVU FOX 5 at 3:30 AM Pacific (single run only).
Stations adding it starting 6/22...
Los Angeles: KCOP My 13 at 1:00 AM Pacific (single run only), sliding America Says to 1:30, formerly Paid Programming.
Cleveland: WBNX CW 55 at 2:00 and 2:30 AM Eastern, replacing an encore of Lauren Lake's Paternity Court (which apparently recently replaced Cops) and Sherrifs: El Dorado County.
Charleston/Huntington, WV: WQCW CW 30 at 10:00 and 10:30 AM Eastern, replacing The Real, which will move to 2:00 PM, replacing a double run of Live PD.
Huntsville/Decatur, AL: WHNT-DT2 19.2 (independent) at 7:00 and 7:30 PM Central, replacing a double run of Cops.
The lease officially began this past Monday. The episodes are hosted by Chris Harrison and are from the series' final season (2018-19), in order of original air date. The first run began at the season premiere, while the second run, for stations that carry it, began with February 2019 episodes. Earlier this month, Deadline reported that Disney was touting Millionaire as a syndication replacement for Cops, which is now under their ownership.
A double run of Millionaire has quietly replaced a double run of Live PD: Police Patrol (which officially ends it syndication run at the end of this week) on The CW Plus, which applies to most CW affiliates in DMAs ranked 100 or lower. The episodes are airing in Live PD's former time slots of 12:00 and 12:30 AM weeknights, local time, or 11:00 and 11:30 PM in Alaska. Unlike Live PD's syndication run, Millionaire does not appear to offer a weekend run (the original run never had one, either, unlike other syndicated game shows such as Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Family Feud).
For DMAs above #100, only two markets have picked up Millionaire in time for this week, while four others will begin airing it next week.
Stations airing it as of 6/15...
San Francisco: KOFY 7 (independent) at 2:00 and 2:30 PM Pacific.
Las Vegas: KVVU FOX 5 at 3:30 AM Pacific (single run only).
Stations adding it starting 6/22...
Los Angeles: KCOP My 13 at 1:00 AM Pacific (single run only), sliding America Says to 1:30, formerly Paid Programming.
Cleveland: WBNX CW 55 at 2:00 and 2:30 AM Eastern, replacing an encore of Lauren Lake's Paternity Court (which apparently recently replaced Cops) and Sherrifs: El Dorado County.
Charleston/Huntington, WV: WQCW CW 30 at 10:00 and 10:30 AM Eastern, replacing The Real, which will move to 2:00 PM, replacing a double run of Live PD.
Huntsville/Decatur, AL: WHNT-DT2 19.2 (independent) at 7:00 and 7:30 PM Central, replacing a double run of Cops.