This has the wonderful pedigree of a transfer from Chichester of a critical and box office success. “It’s interesting to see everyone gravitate back to traditional media during self-isolation. The play centres around the true story of Charles Ingram (who later came to be known as "the Coughing Major") and the coughing scandal that surrounded his 2001 win of £1,000,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? originated, but also around Sept. 11, when America's focus was firmly on the devastating terrorist attacks in New York. James Graham seeks to understand his country's history through his work, including "Brexit," "The Crown" and AMC's new game show cheating drama, "Quiz." [35], Official poster of the 2018 West End production, procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception, "William Village | Independent theatre producer and general manager", "Millionaire cough scandal: 'The most British crime of all time, "Who Wants to be Millionaire scandal inspires new play: what happened next to the coughing Major? He’s met the Ingrams, who were found guilty and given suspended sentences. ------------------------------------------, popular nail-biting game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I wouldn’t eat or sleep, I’d behave badly with the people I love, I’d lie, saying I’d got up at 7.30am when I’d actually been up since five.”, Therapy “felt bourgeois and indulgent, where I’m from you deal with things yourself”, he says. We wanted to recreate that — we even had the graphic cues loading up on the screen. Graham: We kept the basic principle, which is the idea that we're going to present the story that you think you know, which is in and of itself, an incredible story. Winch: The show plays long, there’s no time limit. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. There was new evidence that most of the public don't know that speaks possibly to their innocence. It's quiz geeks who are attempting to rob the biggest show on by cheating through coughing. So I was excited to get back into that world. "Quiz" premieres its three-part limit series on Sunday, May 31 at 10 p.m. on AMC. Graham: It’s hard to talk about that without making them known. There are no tent-pole names in this production – it is an ensemble piece. It’s like half a meter smaller. What followed was a media circus that involved the show's host Chris Tarrant (portrayed here by Michael Sheen), a high-profile trial, outrageous recordings of the various coughs, and ultimately a conviction awash with public humiliation. Graham: The Martin Bashir documentary ["Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Major Fraud"] got as many or just a slightly less views than the funeral of Princess Diana. In the third episode, we recount a very recent meeting between Paul Smith and Paddy Spooner, the head of this outfit, where — as in real life — they reconciled and understand where they were coming from. first appeared on British television in 1998[10] and became "fixated" by the subsequent trial and what he describes as the most "British crime in the history of the world. reality TV star, a character becomes president of the United States. Whittock received a 12-month suspended sentence with a £10,000 fine plus a £7,500 costs order. A review round-up for Quiz at the Noel Coward Theatre, London. I remember watching the trial progress at university with my friends, and firstly couldn't believe how obvious it was that they cheated, and completely how audacious it was to try and steal a million pounds in front of an audience with television cameras and microphones. Clifford: One of my favorite scenes in the show is a scene between Paddy Spooner [from the syndicate] and Paul Smith. Clifford: I just rewatched "Succession" the second series on the plane over here. However, Graham added that he wanted to be as fair to possible to everyone involved in the infamous coughing scandal. “People wanted the cheating accusations to be true because against this background of extraordinary things that were happening with 9/11, they were this sideshow to villainise. He was like a conductor. A sound technician informed Celador CEO Paul Smith of their suspicions, with filming allowed to continue and the tapes reviewed after filming had completed. “I couldn’t have foreseen this,” he says. At new West End play Quiz you get to decide", "Winners list for the Olivier Awards 2019 with Mastercard | Official Website", "ITV and AMC Order 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' Cheating Drama 'Quiz, "ITV commissions three-part drama, Quiz, directed by Stephen Frears and produced by Left Bank Pictures", "West End Transfer of Quiz Finds Its Cast", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quiz_(play)&oldid=966115498, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 July 2020, at 05:15. It's like an "Ocean's 11" with questions and with middle-class people. Graham: I think the audience will just assume that we went on the Jeremy Clarkson set and just filmed it there. We were trying to suss out at first whether we might be able to use their set, but it was just so radically different the technology, so we thought that’s not going to work for us. Graham: Absolutely. Even though actually they're not very rich, but they present themselves from the military as being quite well-to-do. However, the final episode of the series will examine whether the Ingrams were really guilty.
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