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Jeremy Clarkson ready for more episodes of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’

Jeremy Clarkson returns for more episodes of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and spinoff “Millionaire Hot Seat” following the news that he is in remission from cancer.

British network ITV has ordered 15 episodes of the flagship quiz show, as well as 20 episodes of the spin-off ‘Hot Seat’, which launched in January this year and is also hosted by Clarkson. The high-pressure game gets an added twist by requiring participants to answer questions quickly in a fast-moving queue system or risk being replaced.

Both “Who Wants to Become a Millionaire?” and “Millionaire Hot Seat” are produced by Stellify Media, supported by Sony Pictures Television, for ITV and its streaming platform ITVX, commissioned by ITV’s Katie Rawcliffe, Kevin O’Brien and David Smyth. Kerri Reid exec produces for Stellify.

“The ‘Millionaire’ brand continues to deliver for the ITV audience and ‘Millionaire Hot Seat’ has brought an exciting new energy to the format,” Rawcliffe said in a statement. “The combination of Jeremy Clarkson’s hosting and fast-paced gameplay has proven to be a winning formula, so we’re excited to announce both ‘Millionaire Hot Seat’ and ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ back for more episodes.”

Clarkson will tape both shows later this year. The journalist turned television personality recently revealed on the final season of his Prime Video series ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ that he had been diagnosed with an ‘aggressive’ form of prostate cancer. In a Sunday Times interview last week after the revelation, he informed fans that he was now in remission after surgery, calling himself “officially the luckiest man in the world.”

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