Rosie O’Donnell and Drew Carey both walked away from “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” with $500,000 for charity. But ABC isn’t complaining.
The network is more interested in some other figures, the ones showing record-breaking numbers of people watching this week.
Monday’s first celebrity edition of “Millionaire” drew 35.8 million viewers, the most ever to watch the game show, even though 3.5 million Time Warner subscribers were unable to get it on cable because of the company’s dispute with ABC.
Carey was the big winner the first two nights, earning $500,000 for his charity, the Ohio Library Foundation. He declined a chance to risk his winnings on the $1 million question: Which football star was the first to film a commercial for Disney World? The answer: Phil Simms.
![When it comes to writing a demand note, bank robbers tend to follow a certain unspoken etiquette of brevity and clarity. But that’s not what happened in downtown Chicago earlier this week, when federal prosecutors say a man walked into the Chase Bank building at 10 S. Dearborn St. and handed a note to a teller that may have set records for length and variety of literary themes. “Give me as much money possible!!” read the note on lined paper in a neat, looping script that used bubbles to dot the “I’s.” “No more then $2000.” It was a simple […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ctc-l-kendall-jones-bank-robbery-01_187917143.jpg?w=455 "When it comes to writing a demand note, bank robbers tend to follow a certain unspoken etiquette of brevity and clarity. But that’s not what happened in downtown Chicago earlier this week, when federal prosecutors say a man walked into the Chase Bank building at 10 S. Dearborn St. and handed a note to a teller that may have set records for length and variety of literary themes. “Give me as much money possible!!” read the note on lined paper in a neat, looping script that used bubbles to dot the “I’s.” “No more then $2000.” It was a simple […]")
