Overview
- Wer wird Millionär? resumed RTL primetime on Monday, August 31, with long-time host Günther Jauch back at the desk for the season opener.
- Producers kept the game format intact: up to 15 multiple-choice questions, safety levels after question five and ten, and three jokers (50:50, audience, phone).
- RTL is releasing each new episode on its RTL+ streaming service one week before the linear TV airing, extending the show’s reach to online subscribers.
- In the season opener a contestant, identified as Tabea Gottstein, confessed she had earlier damaged a cable strip in the waiting area and Jauch inspected the set on air, removing a broken piece and finding leftover ‘million’ glitter in a crevice.
- The program remains a durable audience draw since 1999, with solid ratings (about 2.96 million average viewers in autumn 2025), 16 past million-euro winners and a 70-year-old host who has signaled no appetite for full retirement.