<P> The original network version of Millionaire was directed by Mark Gentile, who later served as the syndicated version's consulting producer for its first two seasons, and then as the director of Duel, which ran on ABC from December 2007 to July 2008 . The syndicated version was directed by Matthew Cohen from 2002 to 2010, by Rob George from 2010 to 2013, and by Brian McAloon in the 2013--14 season . Former Price Is Right director Rich DiPirro became Millionaire's director in 2014 . </P> <P> The U.S. version of Millionaire is a co-production of 2waytraffic, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Valleycrest Productions, a division of The Walt Disney Company . 2waytraffic purchased Millionaire's original production company Celador in 2008, while Valleycrest has produced the series since its beginning, and holds the copyright on all U.S. Millionaire episodes to date . The show is distributed by Valleycrest's corporate sibling Disney - ABC Home Entertainment & Television Distribution (previously known as Buena Vista Television). </P> <P> The U.S. Millionaire was taped at ABC's Television Center East studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York from 1999 to 2012 . Tapings were moved to NEP Broadcasting's Metropolis Studios in East Harlem in 2013, and production moved to studios located in Stamford, Connecticut the following year . For the 2016--17 season, production relocated to Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada . Episodes of the syndicated version are produced from June to December . The show originally taped four episodes in a single day, but that number has since been changed to five . </P> <P> When the U.S. version of Millionaire was first conceived in 1998, Michael Davies was a young television producer who was serving as the head of ABC's little - noticed reality programming division (at a time when reality television had not yet become a phenomenon in America). At that time, ABC was lingering in third place in the ratings indexes among U.S. broadcast networks, and was on the verge of losing its status as one of the "Big Three" networks . Meanwhile, the popularity of game shows was at an all - time nadir, as with the exception of The Price Is Right, the genre was absent from networks' daytime lineups at that point . Having earlier created Debt for Lifetime Television and participated with Al Burton and Donnie Brainard in the creation of Win Ben Stein's Money for Comedy Central, Davies decided to create a primetime game show that would save the network from collapse and revive interest in game shows . </P>

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