A few years ago Who Wants to Be a Millionaire premiered as the first nighttime game show in a couple of decades. Once the show became a hit and televised several nights a week, other networks quickly created their own version of what they hoped to be a successful game show format. Greed and Twenty-One are the names of but two of the new shows that were created to compete with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. At this point in time the nighttime televised game show entered which stage of its product life cycle?

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The growth stage is characterized by a rapid increase in sales and the emergence of competitors, which is described by the success of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and the subsequent creation of competing game shows like "Greed" and "Twenty-One."

A Few Years Ago Who Wants to Be a Millionaire