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Summary When it comes to being a millionaire money isn't everything. Imported from Britain, from the same company that gave us Wife Swap, Secret Millionaire a reality show that gives money a twist. Each week a wealthy family must go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods to see what life is like for the financially destitute for ten days. Thou...

  • 2008
  • ABC
  • 2008
  • ABC
Secret Millionaire
Season 1 Premiere: Dec 3, 2008
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary When it comes to being a millionaire money isn't everything. Imported from Britain, from the same company that gave us Wife Swap, Secret Millionaire a reality show that gives money a twist. Each week a wealthy family must go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods to see what life is like for the financially destitute for ten days. Thou...

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75
Mar 4, 2011
A show that can make you feel this way can't be all bad. Even if its clandestine millionaires can be more than a little grating.
By Ed Bark FULL REVIEW
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Mar 4, 2011
What Secret Millionaire has no time to explore, conveniently, are the causes of poverty or any larger issues. It is, essentially, all about creating a cathartic experience, where the millionaire's checks affix band-aids to everything from soup kitchens to kidney-dialysis patients.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
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Mar 4, 2011
There's something secretly skeevy about self-made, self- promoting millionaires being given an hour-long, personal infomercial for doing what should be done in private--giving money to charity.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
42
May 30, 2012
By focusing on their [millionaire's] catharsis, the show suggests that lifestyle tourism counts as heroism.
By Darren Franich FULL REVIEW
42
Mar 4, 2011
A celebration of wealth's redemptive power, it's less O. Henry than "Oh, brother!"
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Mar 7, 2011
Both "Restaurant" and Millionaire stir similar pots of self-pride, entrepreneurship and the psychic reward of sharing one's good fortune. But because the medium is television--reality television--each show collapses under the pressure of showing off its sense of nobility and higher purpose.
By Hank Stuever FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • RDF USA
  • Rocket Science Laboratories
Initial Release Date: Dec 3, 2008
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
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