Hawkee
08-21-2023, 02:49 AM
During the 2000's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire debuted it's second season in 2000 after debuting with success and the most watched show on ABC in 1999. But while Regis was the shining star of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire little did we know that soon Regis Philbin would have competition when FOX announced the launch of Greed The Multi-Million-Dollar Bonus "Greed The Series" and debuting at the same time "the same week" as Who Wants To Be Millionaire's Season 2 Premiere week on FOX. Many people thought that Greed would soon knock Millionaire from the ratings and hit a home run for FOX. But in my mind why Greed became a smash hit was because Chuck Woolery had become a Comeback Kid with this show and while Millionaire had "Is That Your Final Answer" as it's catchphrase Greed had simply "Do You Feel The Need For Greed" as it's catchphrase too. And I remember hearing so much about Greed from my aunt who told me all about Greed and I saw an episode of Greed myself with my mom and what I thought of Greed was it wasn't what my aunt told me about at first because the gameplay of Greed reminded me of Family Feud without the survey board and the Fast Money Round and the other thing I disliked of Greed was the Terminator round used sound effects straight out of a Marvel movie and why every time the Terminator would pick a contestant Chuck Woolery would always say something like "Hawkee The Terminator has Chosen You" and if I was playing Greed and Chuck Woolery told me this I would just not play when the Terminator would choose me. So I think while Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was lots better Greed would've done better as a syndicated game show and not on FOX. But I really think what mainly caused Greed to get cancelled was because of too many changes and changing the gameplay and adding theme weeks like Super Greed and 70's Greed. I can see why ABC was quick to earn more success with Millionaire and FOX had hoped to do the same with Greed but it wasn't meant to be