2waytraffic International announced that TV New Zealand, New Zealand’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster and the nation’s public broadcaster, has commissioned a home-grown version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? to play weekly in primetime. The series will be produced in Melbourne (Australia) where it will be recorded in front of a Kiwi audience and fronted by a New Zealand host, with production scheduled to commence in late August. The series will feature the three standard Lifelines, Ask The Audience, Phone A Friend and 50-50, and the original 15-step money tree leading to the top prize of a million New Zealand dollars. This will be the first time that a Kiwi version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has been produced. Ed Louwerse, managing director of 2waytraffic International, said, “The fact that we are continuing to launch home-grown versions of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? into new territories in the same year that we celebrate its tenth anniversary demonstrates that it is as relevant and fresh today as it was ten years ago.”