{"id":38162,"date":"2025-07-26T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/38162\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:50:11","slug":"who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-match-game-2025-premiere-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/38162\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Who Wants To Be A Millionaire&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Match Game&#8217; 2025 Premiere Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Summer game shows have been making a splash on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/abc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abc\" data-tag=\"abc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-2\" data-tag=\"who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who Wants to Be a Millionaire<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/match-game\/\" id=\"auto-tag_match-game\" data-tag=\"match-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match Game<\/a> both returned for new seasons Wednesday, pulling in solid viewership gains to deliver multi-year highs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHosted by Jimmy Kimmel, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire kicked things off in the 8 p.m. hour with 4.24 million viewers, according to Live+Same Day Nielsen data. The premiere episode \u2014\u00a0which featured Drew Carey, Aisha Tyler, Matt Damon and Ken Jennings \u2014\u00a0scored the most-watched telecast in more than four years, since January 2021, and shot 27% above last season\u2019s average audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn terms of the 18-49 demo, the episode stayed steady against last summer\u2019s premiere episode with a 0.38 rating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWho Wants to Be a Millionaire stands as ABC\u2019s most-watched entertainment telecast this summer so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt 9 p.m., Martin Short took the reins for a new season of Match Game, which drew 3.3M total viewers, marking its most-watched telecast in five years, since June 2020. The premiere episode topped the previous season\u2019s debut by 13%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFeaturing celebrity guests Kevin Nealon, Selena Gomez, BD Wong, Anthony Anderson, Cara Delevingne and Ziwe,\u00a0the Season 6 premiere also rose 19% above the previous season\u2019s average total viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Summer game shows have been making a splash on ABC. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1855,88,31193,92,9611,31194],"class_list":["post-38162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc","tag-entertainment","tag-match-game","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings","tag-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}