Posted April 13, 20205 yr A 3-part dramedy based on the infamous Major Charles Ingram 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' coughing scandal! HHRXtJoNL28
April 13, 20205 yr Author Such a bonkers take on it! I LOVED IT :lol: 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.
April 13, 20205 yr 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.
April 13, 20205 yr 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.
April 13, 20205 yr 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
April 13, 20205 yr 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.
April 14, 20205 yr 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.
April 14, 20205 yr Really enjoying this three part series. Been a while since I really got into a drama. Great take on this.
April 14, 20205 yr This is for you all, Major Fraud the ITV 'Tonight' documentary from 2003: D5r8yE_bT78
April 15, 20205 yr really enjoying this - the actors look scarily similar to the real life characters, the Chris Tarrant actor is spot on :lol:
April 15, 20205 yr really enjoying this - the actors look scarily similar to the real life characters, the Chris Tarrant actor is spot on :lol: Yes, yet another scarily accurate performance from Michael Sheen to add to his Tony Blair, Brian Clough, David Frost and Kenneth Williams.
April 15, 20205 yr 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 :lol: :lol: :lol: 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 :lol: and also not knowing Audrey’s daughter In Coronation Street!
April 16, 20205 yr 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.
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