Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Quiz review – would you like to ask the audience, Major?

Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford and Michael Sheen star in this new three-part series about the cheating plot that rocked Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – and the entire nation

Quiz people baffle me almost as much as sex people. Where do they all get the time, energy or enthusiasm? Why would you not just settle down with a good book and a packet of biscuits instead? Is it me, or is it them?

I never quite understood, then, the extent to which the Maj Charles Ingram scandal grabbed the public imagination in the early 00s. It seemed to me that to enter Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with the apparent intention of cheating and walking away with the top prize (or thereabouts – there are suggestions in the programme that he was supposed to settle for half a mil and not draw quite so much attention to himself) is much more sensible than entering a quiz under any other conditions. Not more admirable, obviously. But much more sensible.

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