The Million Dollar Drop

The Million Dollar Drop
Genre	Game show
Presented by	Eddie McGuire
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6 (12 Unaired)
Production
Running time	60 minutes (including adverts)
Release
Original network	Nine Network
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	21 March 2011 – 28 April 2011
Chronology
Related shows	The Million Pound Drop Live

The Million Dollar Drop is a game show which airs on Nine Network in Australia and is based on the UK series The Million Pound Drop Live. However, unlike the original UK version, it is not broadcast live, and there are several changes to the format. The show premiered on 21 March 2011 and is hosted by Eddie McGuire.

Game format

A team of two people with a pre-existing relationship is presented with $1,000,000 A.U. in $20 Notes, banded in bundles of $20,000 (50 bundles = $1,000,000). The team must risk the entire amount on each of eight multiple-choice questions.

For each question, the contestants choose one of two categories, then indicate which answer(s) they wish to risk their money on by moving the bundles of cash onto a row of trap doors, termed "drops," each of which corresponds to one answer. However, they must always keep at least one drop "clear" with no money on it. In addition, seven of the eight questions have a time limit; any money that is not placed on an answer when time runs out will be lost.

Once the money is in place, the trap doors for the incorrect answers are opened, and the cash on them falls out of sight and is lost. The contestants then continue the game using the cash they had placed on the correct answer. They get to keep whatever money is left after the eighth question; if they lose everything before reaching this point, the game ends immediately and they leave with nothing.

International versions

Country	Title	Host	Network	Top Prize	First Airdate
Albania	100 Milionë	Eno Popi	Top Channel	10,000,000 lek	11 January 2011
Argentina	Salven el Millón	Susana Giménez	Telefe	1,000,000 AR$	9 June 2011
Brazil [1]	Um Milhão na Mesa	Silvio Santos	SBT	R$1,000,000	21 September 2011
Chile[2]	Atrapa los Millones	Don Francisco	Canal 13	CL$400.000.000	25 March 2011
Colombia	Millones por montones	María José Barraza	Caracol Televisión	CO$1.000'000.000	25 July 2011
Denmark	Pengene på bordet	Claus Elming	TV2	Kr 2.000.000	17 March 2013
Egypt[3]	انت والمليون Inta wal milyon	TBA	Mehwar TV	EGP1,000,000	November 2011
Estonia [4]	Rahaauk	Alari Kivisaar	TV3	€100,000	12 September 2011
France [5]	Money Drop	Laurence Boccolini	TF1	€250,000	1 August 2011
Germany	Rette die Million!	Jörg Pilawa	ZDF	€1,000,000	13 October 2010
Greece	Money Drop	Grigoris Arnaoutoglou	Mega TV	€300,000	16 October 2010
Hungary	A 40 Milliós Játszma	Rákóczi Ferenc	TV2	40,000,000 Ft	29 November 2010
Israel	אל תפיל את המיליון Al Tapil Et HaMilyon	Erez Tal	Channel 2 (Keshet)	₪1,000,000	13 October 2010
India	Kaiyil Oru Kodi, Are Your Ready?	Marc Sylvan	Sun TV	Rs 2,00,000	10 March 2012
Italy [6]	The Money Drop	Gerry Scotti	Canale 5	€1,000,000	12 December 2011
Kazakhstan [7]	Шоу Сорок Миллионов Тенге Shou Sorok Millionov Tenge	Abdel' Mukhtarov	tv7	40,000,000 ₸	22 January 2011
Latvia [8]	Paņem 100 000... ja vari	Edgars Ludāns	TV3	€100,000	1 October 2011
Lithuania [9]	100 000 eurų grynais	Marijonas Mikutavičius	TV3	€100,000	2 September 2011
Malaysia	RM 1,000,000 Money Drop	Carlo Ramirez, Jr.	Astro Ria	RM1,000,000	TBA
Netherlands[10]	Show Me The Money	Beau van Erven Dorens	SBS 6	€1,000,000	11–22 April 2011
Philippines	The Million Peso Money Drop	Vic Sotto	TV 5	PhP1,000,000	October 2012,carlo
Poland	Postaw na milion	Łukasz Nowicki	TVP2	1,000,000 zł	5 March 2011
Russia	Шоу Десять миллионов Shou Desyat' Millionov	Maxim Galkin	Russia 1	10,000,000 руб.	4 September 2010
Serbia[11]	Multimilioner	Dragan Nikolić	RTV Pink	10,000,000RSD (weekly)	13 September 2011
Singapore [12]	Million Dollar Money Drop	George Young	MediaCorp TV Channel 5	S$1,000,000	9 August 2011
Spain [13]	Atrapa un Millón	Carlos Sobera	Antena 3	€1,000,000 (weekly)	4 February 2011
	Atrapa un Millón Diario			€ 200,000 (daily)	4 April 2011
Sweden[14]	Pengarna på bordet	Peter Jihde	TV4	2,000,000 Kr.	3 October 2011
Switzerland[15]	Die Millionen-Falle	René Rindlisbacher	SF1	1,000,000SFr	4 July – 15 August 2011
Turkey	Bir Milyon Canlı Para	Engin Altan Düzyatan	Show TV	1,000,000TL	25 October 2010
Ukraine	Шоу на два мiльйони Shou Na Dva Milyoni	Andrey Domansky	1+1	2,000,000 грн.	12 January – 30 March 2011
United Kingdom	The Million Pound Drop Live	Davina McCall	Channel 4	£1,000,000	24 May 2010
United States	Million Dollar Money Drop	Kevin Pollak	Fox	US$1,000,000	20 December 2010

See also

• The Million Pound Drop Live
• Million Dollar Money Drop

References

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