<P> Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ? ( informally Millionaire ) is an international television game show franchise of British origin , created by David Briggs , Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight . In its format , currently owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television , large cash prizes are offered for correctly answering a series of multiple - choice questions of increasing ( or , in some cases , random ) difficulty . The maximum cash prize ( in the original British version ) was one million pounds . Most international versions offer a top prize of one million units of the local currency . </P>
<P> Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ? ( informally Millionaire ) is an international television game show franchise of British origin , created by David Briggs , Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight . In its format , currently owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television , large cash prizes are offered for correctly answering a series of multiple - choice questions of increasing ( or , in some cases , random ) difficulty . The maximum cash prize ( in the original British version ) was one million pounds . Most international versions offer a top prize of one million units of the local currency . </P>
who owns the rights to who wants to be a millionaire
who owns the rights to who wants to be a millionaire
Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television