BENGALURU: Suvarna will air the second season of ?Kannadada Kotyadhipathi? (Kannada KBC or Who wants to be a Millionaire) from 11 March.

The 80-episode game show will run over 20 weeks and will be hosted by the season 1 host and sandalwood actor Puneet Rajkumar. The duration of each episode is 90 minutes.

The prize money will remain at Rs 10 million (Rs 1 crore), the highest on offer in the southern TV space. The call for entries to participate in the show will start from 15 December on Suvarna, with Puneet Rajkumar asking a question everyday on the Kannada general entertainment channel.

Season 1 of the southern versions of KBC has been very successful for the Star network channels in South India ? Vijay TV in Tamil Nadu, Suvarna in Karnataka and Asianet in Kerala. Big Synergy is the production house of the show.

A number of sponsors and advertisers have shown interest in the property and the channel is in negotiations with some of them, a source said.