Jimmy Kimmel will be grilling celebs in primetime once again. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire revival has been picked up for another season.
Deadline reports that ABC has ordered a fourth season of the game show, which Kimmel revived as a celebrity primetime show in 2020–less than a year after the syndicated version had left the airwaves. In addition to hosting the show, Kimmel executive produces it through his Kimmelot production banner.
Kimmel’s version of the show teams two celebrities up to compete as a team, aiming to win money for a chosen charity. Celebrities who competed on last year’s run includes familiar faces of late night like John Mulaney, Kenan Thompson, Reggie Watts, and Kimmel’s Cousin Sal.
Last year’s season was given a July-through-August summer run. ABC has not announced a schedule for the upcoming season. While earlier iterations of the show ran year long, the current format was envisioned as a limited-run series. “When this was originally pitched by Michael Davies, he came in and said this was what it was always meant to be, short-term events that get people excited and it goes away and people miss it,” ABC’s Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment EVP Rob Mills told Deadline in 2020.
The new format includes an “Ask the Host” lifeline, which allows contestants to ask Kimmel for his best guess on one question. (Kimmel makes clear he is not informed of the answer in advance.)
Kimmel’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire duties have inspired moments on JKL as well. Following Mulaney and Nick Kroll’s time as contestants on the show, they gifted Kimmel an Easter Island-style statue of Gene Simmons’ head.
