I'm actually going to miss it, but I also grew up watching game shows on daytime TV(which were alot better than the courtroom and talk stuff that's there now). I didn't like the first incarnation of the show, with Bob Eubanks, but I do like Instant Millionaire with Todd Newton. I think he's a better host than Bob Eubanks, and the show isn't as "random" as the Bob Eubanks show was(i.e. it is possible to devise a strategy for the games that reduces the randomness a little, though not by much). The chance to go to Las Vegas and have a room at the Venetian along with $750 spending money and to win $1000 just for showing up is pretty cool too. In fact, it was that that motivated me to seek out and buy the tickets.
I've been buying them since the beginning and sending in my entries for the last few years, but have never been called. Fortunately, there are a few places around here that still have them, so I'm going to keep buying and sending them in until the May 24 deadline the Louisiana Lottery has put forth.
As for the low ratings, I can understand why that is even though it isn't necessarily the fault of the program or the MUSL. In my city, the show was originally airing Saturday nights at 6:30PM, but was replaced by sitcom reruns and then moved to Saturday's at 5PM. The problem with this timeslot was NBC, the network this station is affiliated with, often had sports on Saturday afternoons which often ran overtime and bumped the show completely or forced the station to air only part of it. I wrote a snail mail letter to the Louisiana Lottery Corporation about this and never received a response, but the bumping problem seems to have gone away this season.
Out of curiousity, I looked up some TV schedules online of the other Louisiana TV stations airing the program and found it was in similar timeslots, i.e. Saturday or Sunday afternoons at 5PM or late night Saturday or Sunday, times which don't have alot of viewers. This could be part of the problem that stations scheduled it in poor timeslots or perhaps dumped the show into these timeslots because it didn't do well at other times.
Although I enjoyed the show, I can understand MUSL's thinking. They, like any other business, are there to make money, and if this isn't profitable, they should change it or get out of it.
My 2 cents.