Quiz - ITV

[southeastdweller]

It's a three part drama about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire coughing scandal in 2001.

www.radiotimes.com/news/2020-04-08/quiz-itv-drama-air-date-cast-trailer/

Anyone else planning on watching it?

I’m confused about when they say ‘it’s time for a break’ for adverts if it’s not actually live? Then it resumes once the advert break is over? Do they actually wait for ten minutes or just say that, quickly cut, then immediately resume?

@thekeythesecret I’ve seen a couple of TV shows being filmed and at that point they do stuff like touch up people’s make-up, have a quick loo break etc!

@deffo
The brother outside was apparently connected to another way they allegedly tried to cheat - by having vibrating phones strapped to the majors legs!

I've never actually wondered why Google is called Google, but thanks to last night's ep, now I know!

And what was the significance of the 'glitter man', outside in his van, boogying away to It's Raining Men?

I don't understand what the brother was doing outside on the phone. I dont understand how he is involved with the cheating on the night?

I think the original plan was that he would message the pagers strapped to Charles’s body. But there was no phone signal inside the studio, so he was trying to access the recording. They said something about scrambling the signal in the meeting the next day.

And what was the significance of the 'glitter man', outside in his van, boogying away to It's Raining Men?

Apparently there really was a glitter man who had to be ready if someone won. And because Charles was so rubbish to start with, no one expected him to win, so the glitter man was just sat in his van and had to dash in last minute.

I'm finding this show not at all interesting, wooden acting in some parts and over acted in others. What's with the bumbling lawyer in the ITV meetings?

This is really annoying me as they are not actually showing us how they did it, not showing the coughing etc. Why can't they just stick to the facts? Its a good enough story on its own, why make it so ambiguous?

Because they don't actually know definitively, as all three of the accused have continued to deny doing anything wrong.

To the PP who said I bet Google was fairly quick even then - Google didn’t even become popular until 2002 apparently. We ask used Ask Jeeves before then - and it was pretty terrible.

That’s why the last “google” question was so difficult - not many people would have heard the word before.

Because they don't actually know definitively, as all three of the accused have continued to deny doing anything wrong.

But they were found guilty.

The question was asking about googol, not Google. And yes, Ask Jeeves was rubbish.

Cruddles that lawyer

My mother used to call it 'Ask Greeves' bless her.

Why did Charles keep touching his ear? It was like he had an ear piece but he didn’t!?

Re how big the show was, I can remember going on holidays in Europe between 1999 and 2002 and there was always a local version on the tv whichever country you went to - exactly like for like except different presenter and language!

CoolShoeshine

Why did Charles keep touching his ear? It was like he had an ear piece but he didn’t!?

I thought that was odd.
Wondered if it was him signalling to the cougher that he was waiting for the cough when he said one of the answers.

I thought the ear touching was showing his mannerisms, that where he's nervous or lying, he touches his ear - it may become clearer in the court case episode.

Google is named after the number googol, so everyone who’s ever been curious enough to type “why is Google called Google” into the search engine of their choice now knows what a googol is. Back in 2001 that knowledge was the sole province of maths nerds.

I read in an interview with James Graham, the writer of "Quiz", that Chris Tarrant had told him WWTBAM pioneered the "delayed reveal" and he was really proud of it.

Hmm ...

At least that delay was filled with CT wittering, judging by "Quiz", and I can see it was appropriate for the format as the sums of money got bigger.
However, now it's evolved into the stupid, looong, silent-except-for-pseudo-heartbeats wait on shows like "Strictly" or "Masterchef". I hate it!
And DH hates it even more because he's got to listen to me muttering, "Having trouble reading, are you? Got a splinter in your index finger perhaps? Not sure if that's a curly cuh or a kicking kuh..." or "Forgotten what you decided just five minutes ago, John?" etc during it.

Apparently CT said he wished they'd patented the delayed reveal. Not sure how possible it would have been, but I bloody wish they'd tried.

I think I read the same thing.

The writer/exec producer donated his entire salary for the show to a Coronavirus relief fund! Amazing guy. Did anyone watch the documentary about his life and career?

It really was event tv when it started. It was huge. I remember when Camilla's cousin won a million : she was so cool. She was on Eggheads for a while.

Judith Keppel. She was very obviously clever, in a way that Major Ingram doesn't appear to be!

Think the ear and mic touching etc were cues for feedback from the plants in the audience.

Judith ! I'd forgotten her name.
She had a royal question as her million one and knew it straight away! She was ice cool!

He touched his ear when he wasn’t sure of the answer.

Yy Google wasn't the all seeing all listening behemoth it is now back then; it was just one of several search engines of varying quality. Ask Jeeves would throw up some strange results - presumably based on what you were most likely to be looking for if you included certain words. Altavista was a bit better.

Agree about the delay thing. It's super annoying.