Hi Soulsdetour, like I have always been saying, we have so many things in comon in terms of our countries...., we both know that.
"Who wants to be a millionaire" is also played in Nigeria. Infact, in the time past, as at early 2004, 2005....et al, it used to be a very interesting game to watch. Ofcourse, not to participate as I'm not certain if I could be that fortunate to be selected to participate.
I didn't miss watching it any of the weeks. But at a point I stopped watching..., it didn't make sense anymore. Nobody has ever won..., so I later view it as a game that draws traffic to the organizers (It was usually organized by a network provider called MTN owned by South Africa)🤔.
No one mentions millions in Bulgaria regarding this game, simply because in Bulgaria no one will give anyone a million, such prizes simply do not exist, it is too much
I think one person won here in Nigeria and that was like year 2009 I guess. The person didn't win the entire money for the prize, he won just the highest amount. And till date, no one has ever won such amount. Infact, till this moment, we still believe that the young man was related to the host.
Overall, the game/program use to be educational , I think even till now...
But hey, 65% Nigerians (youth) are not interested in that anymore, everybody wanna make money to survive...
That's it. It's just that. And every now and then they release something that claims there could be some money to be made there, but only in theory, and that's one hope for the poor people, just one hope. Which subsequently turns out to be false in most cases.
I also haven't watched the show Who wants to be a millionaire? for a long time. I stopped when I felt that something was wrong with the plot and more or less, it is again a humiliation for the participants and also for the viewers - boring, very difficult questions and an absolute impossibility of winning.
The sad thing is that many other interesting and promising shows have turned into the same thing. At first I thought that these were just social experiments, that you could write psychology books if you observed what happens to people when you put them in certain conditions. But the conditions are already brutal and do not meet my understanding of normality. And everything is twisted and out of bounds. Maybe because it's easy to humiliate people from poor countries whose only interest is money to survive.