  |
 Quiz • ITV, 3-Part Dramedy |
| Track this thread - Email this thread - Print this thread - Download this thread - Subscribe to this forum |
 Apr 13 2020, 09:14 PM
Post
#1
|
|
 I found the love, I found the love in me
Pronouns: He/Him
Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 87,422 User: 5,042 
        
|
A 3-part dramedy based on the infamous Major Charles Ingram 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' coughing scandal!
|
 |
 
|
|
Apr 13 2020, 09:17 PM
Post
#2
|
|
|
I found the love, I found the love in me
Pronouns: He/Him
Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 87,422 User: 5,042
|
Such a bonkers take on it! I LOVED IT
 It's across tonight, tomorrow (14th April 2020) & Wednesday (15th April 2020). I was expecting a full on drama (I hadn't seen the trailer or anything just that my sister said she wanted to give it a go) so I was not expecting the full on comedy with it. One of, if not THE most iconic moment and scandal in television and game show history. |
|
|
|
|
Apr 13 2020, 09:27 PM
Post
#3
|
|
 electric butterflies
Pronouns: he/him
Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 49,112 User: 70
       
|
I really enjoyed this, particularly the last half of the episode. I'm not really getting much comedy from it at the moment; it's kinda what I expected.
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 13 2020, 10:09 PM
Post
#4
|
|
 Howdy, disco citizens
Joined: 16 January 2010
Posts: 12,775 User: 10,455
   
|
Really enjoying it. I actually found it quite funny once you view it through the prism of a war drama or heist caper, but with middle-class white people from the Shires and multiple-choice questions.
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 13 2020, 10:09 PM
Post
#5
|
|
|
Jord
Joined: 12 March 2017
Posts: 10,758 User: 27,116
|
I really enjoyed this!
I remember the scandal but didn’t realise the story was even more interesting and complex than what it was! Good cast too. They’re all playing the parts well. after this scandal I take it any future people who go on the show have someone with them if they’re a phone a friend etc |
|
|
|
|
Apr 13 2020, 10:11 PM
Post
#6
|
|
|
Howdy, disco citizens
Joined: 16 January 2010
Posts: 12,775 User: 10,455
|
QUOTE(Jordan Lee @ Apr 13 2020, 11:09 PM)  after this scandal I take it any future people who go on the show have someone with them if they’re a phone a friend etc In the most recent series, Jeremy Clarkson specifically asks if a researcher is in the room with the phone-a-friend before handing it over to the contestant. I don't know if it was implemented in the older series post-Ingram though. |
|
|
|
|
Apr 14 2020, 09:21 PM
Post
#7
|
|
 BuzzJack Legend
Joined: 13 April 2007
Posts: 36,653 User: 3,272
    
|
Just seen - and enjoyed - the first two episodes.
I don't recall anything in the trial to suggest that the group of pub quizzers listening on a speaker phone ever happened. I suspect that might be one of the things added for extra drama. The fact that they now have someone in the room is supposedly to stop them trying to Google the answer. It wouldn't really have been possible to do that quickly enough back in 2001. |
|
|
|
|
Apr 14 2020, 09:30 PM
Post
#8
|
|
|
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
Joined: 1 February 2011
Posts: 53,603 User: 12,915
 
|
Really enjoying this three part series. Been a while since I really got into a drama. Great take on this.
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 14 2020, 09:38 PM
Post
#9
|
|
|
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
Joined: 1 February 2011
Posts: 53,603 User: 12,915
|
This is for you all, Major Fraud the ITV 'Tonight' documentary from 2003:
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 14 2020, 10:08 PM
Post
#10
|
|
|
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
Joined: 1 February 2011
Posts: 53,603 User: 12,915
|
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 10:15 AM
Post
#11
|
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Joined: 19 December 2015
Posts: 20,102 User: 22,776
|
really enjoying this - the actors look scarily similar to the real life characters, the Chris Tarrant actor is spot on
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 11:05 AM
Post
#12
|
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Joined: 13 April 2007
Posts: 36,653 User: 3,272
|
QUOTE(mdh @ Apr 15 2020, 11:15 AM) really enjoying this - the actors look scarily similar to the real life characters, the Chris Tarrant actor is spot on Yes, yet another scarily accurate performance from Michael Sheen to add to his Tony Blair, Brian Clough, David Frost and Kenneth Williams. |
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 11:09 AM
Post
#13
|
|
|
Shakin Stevens
Joined: 29 December 2007
Posts: 46,140 User: 5,138
|
Sheen is brillant, looking forward to watching this!
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 11:20 AM
Post
#14
|
|
|
Jord
Joined: 12 March 2017
Posts: 10,758 User: 27,116
|
Ive really gotten into this too a lot more than I thought I would’ve by the trailers etc.
I was aware of the story but didn’t realise there was this much too it. Interesting. The brother getting on the show that many times before he played Howling at how this actually managed to happen! Even without the coughing the constant changing minds and I’ve never heard of this but I’m gonna go for it like who’d do that and also not knowing Audrey’s daughter In Coronation Street!
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 11:22 AM
Post
#15
|
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Joined: 13 April 2007
Posts: 36,653 User: 3,272
|
I wouldn't have known the Coronation Street question.
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 02:27 PM
Post
#16
|
|
|
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
Joined: 1 February 2011
Posts: 53,603 User: 12,915
|
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 02:47 PM
Post
#17
|
|
|
A dead mouse (from my cat)
Joined: 2 March 2018
Posts: 28,438 User: 67,771
 
|
They were also once on Celebrity Wife Swap!
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 02:57 PM
Post
#18
|
|
|
A dead mouse (from my cat)
Joined: 2 March 2018
Posts: 28,438 User: 67,771
|
I bet I'm a Celeb will be trying to get Charles on...
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 15 2020, 03:05 PM
Post
#19
|
|
|
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
Joined: 1 February 2011
Posts: 53,603 User: 12,915
|
QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Apr 15 2020, 03:47 PM) They were also once on Celebrity Wife Swap! With one Jade Goody. |
|
|
|
|
Apr 16 2020, 08:27 AM
Post
#20
|
|
|
electric butterflies
Pronouns: he/him
Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 49,112 User: 70
|
I really enjoyed this. I like how it left it open to your own interpretation. I enjoyed how accurately the main players were portrayed too.
|
|
|
|
|
| Time is now: 19th April 2024 - 07:51 AM |
Copyright © 2006 - 2024 BuzzJack.com
About | Contact | Advertise | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service
