Hong Kong Comic Master

Hong Kong Islanders have always been eager for money, and the entire social atmosphere is also very impetuous and luxurious.

Here, it seems that as long as you are rich, your character, knowledge, and even appearance are all advantages: being ugly is called unique, being fat is called wealth, and being short is concentrated.

On the contrary, as long as you have no money, it seems that there is no advantage in hanging around, which is disgusting.

Therefore, people do whatever it takes to make money, including gambling, cheating, and robbing, which constantly refreshes people's moral bottom line.

And it is in this environment that the launch of "Who is a Millionaire" tells everyone a new way to make a lot of money every day: using knowledge, you can really make money!

The book has its own golden house, which is no longer a slogan!

This program was originally a TV game show from the British ITV, "Millions", hosted by Chris Tarrant, which first aired in 1998.

Contestants need to correctly answer 15 consecutive multiple-choice questions with four choices. If they can answer all correctly, they will receive a huge bonus, usually 1 million local currency.

This program was later introduced and broadcast by ATV in Hong Kong Island in 2001. It gained huge attention once it was launched.

Now Phoenix TV has produced and broadcast this program twenty years in advance, and the effect is not bad.

What's more, it's still the 1970s. For most people, one million is definitely a life-changing windfall, and it only requires a registration fee of HKD 5!

Participants only need to be residents of Hong Kong Island who are over 16 years old. Employees of non-Phoenix TV and its sponsors and their families can register by calling, writing a letter, or going to the local TV station to register.

Contestants will receive a certain amount of bonus accumulation for each correct answer. If they answer 15 correct questions in a row, they will receive 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

When you encounter a problem, you can use 3 tips to help answer the question.

Including: "Fifty-fifty", which means removing two wrong answers.

"On-the-spot tips" for help from the audience.

"Call Friends" means calling relatives and friends for help, but only for 30 seconds.

There are a total of 10 challengers in each episode. If the episode has been screened for enough time and a participant is still competing, the participant will continue to compete in the next episode.

Host Lin Yanni graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the former sister-in-law of Hong Kong international superstar Bruce Lee and the future wife of Hong Kong talent Huang Zhan, although they eventually divorced.

However, the future Hong Kong female writer is now just a TV director and weather report girl at Phoenix TV. Because this program needs an intellectual beauty, she was selected by Li Wannian to become the host of this program.

"If someone can answer 15 questions correctly, your TV station will suffer a huge loss, right?"

When Lin Yanni finished explaining the rules of the show, Huang Jiali was shocked.

That’s one million! Many people in Hong Kong today have never seen so much money in their lives.

"Hahaha, mom, don't worry, it's not that easy to get this money!"

Li Wannian smiled and comforted.

Sure enough, before he finished speaking, the first contestant quickly fell on the fourth question.

Since the first line of insurance was not reached, not even a penny was paid.

The so-called insurance line is that after the contestant passes the fifth and tenth levels, even if the answer is wrong, he can still get the bonus of the fifth or tenth level.

This allows contestants to safely compete for the million-dollar prize and eliminate their worries.

"Hahaha, this person is so stupid. He didn't even know that Ming Chengzu was Zhu Xi, so he chose Zhu Yuanzhang!"

Li Wanyue was laughing on the sofa, pointing at the TV series.

"???"

The whole family looked at Li Wanyue in stunned silence.

Li Wanyue noticed that everyone was looking at her and asked doubtfully: "Is there any problem?"

"Mom, why don't you tell Xiaoyue not to go to school? The tuition will be in vain!"

"Li Wannian, what do you mean?"

After hearing this, Li Wanyue stared at Li Wannian with a bulging face.

"I'll think about it."

Huang Jiali held her forehead and actually made a rare joke.

"Huh?" Everyone in the family was caught off guard by Huang Jiali's sudden joke, but Li Wanyue reacted the fastest.

A pair of big eyes rolled around, and he suddenly said with a smile on his face: "Mommy, is it true?"

"It's fake, don't even think about it!"

"That's right, I'll buy her two more sets of review questions tomorrow. You need these more than the rest of us!"

Li Wanyue immediately blushed and said angrily: "Li Wannian, I will fight with you!"

There were some unintelligible words in succession, such as "with you and without me", "go to hell" and so on, which made the whole family burst into laughter: the living room at home was filled with an air of happiness.

A happy family like the Li family is by no means the only one on Hong Kong Island tonight.

But all Hong Kong families who watched tonight's variety show again experienced happiness they had never experienced before. This is a new version of the ship that you have never experienced before.

I didn’t expect that a knowledge-based program could be so interesting?

Since "Who is a Millionaire" is the first episode to be aired, neither the selection of the question bank nor the abilities of the contestants are consistent enough.

Therefore, in the first episode of "Who is a Millionaire", all 10 contestants appeared. Unfortunately, not to mention that there was no one who could answer 15 questions correctly, there was not even one who answered 10 questions correctly.

The person who answered the most questions correctly only answered 8 correctly.

Relying on the rules of the insurance line, he can take away 1,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is already a profit compared to the registration fee!

People in Hong Kong Island are keen on getting rich quickly. Lottery, horse racing, mahjong and other gambling-related entertainment activities are very popular in Hong Kong Island.

And this program is equivalent to using a few dollars to get a chance to get rich quickly!

It is even more practical than buying lottery tickets. After all, lottery is purely based on luck. If it is in the mainland, it is likely that you will have internal relations with the gambling company. For this program, as long as you really have a wide range of knowledge and become a human encyclopedia, you can really get one million!

Therefore, once this program was launched, it immediately exploded in Hong Kong Island!

The ratings of the program on that day soared directly to 50%, hanging the other two TV stations.

And on the second night, the ratings broke through 60%, which can almost be called a crowd of people.

Such ratings almost reached the level that "Shanghai Beach" had a year later.

Phoenix TV's phone was almost blown up with calls from people signing up to participate, and the first floor of the TV station was packed with people every day.

This scene was almost as exciting as the Spring Festival travel rush in the first decade of the 21st century!

In short, with just two episodes, Phoenix TV conquered the entire Hong Kong Island with a variety show.