Beginning Sunday, May 31, AMC will air Quiz, a three-part drama from writer James Graham and director Stephen Frears detailing the meteoric rise of Britain's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and the stunning cheating scandal that threatened to tear it down.
With clever writing, an excellent cast, and inspired direction, Quiz propels you through the episodes with breakneck speed.
By the time Who Wants to Be a Millionaire landed in the Us, it was already a phenomenon in the UK. Historic ratings made it an easy sell to foreign entities, and by starting Quiz early in the development at ITV, viewers get the full picture of went into the modern marvel.
From the earliest stages, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire capitalized on the audience's perception of what they're watching and how it drives them into a bit of a frenzy.
Graham and Frears deftly introduce all of the major players in the scandal concurrently.
With clever writing, an excellent cast, and inspired direction, Quiz propels you through the episodes with breakneck speed.
By the time Who Wants to Be a Millionaire landed in the Us, it was already a phenomenon in the UK. Historic ratings made it an easy sell to foreign entities, and by starting Quiz early in the development at ITV, viewers get the full picture of went into the modern marvel.
From the earliest stages, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire capitalized on the audience's perception of what they're watching and how it drives them into a bit of a frenzy.
Graham and Frears deftly introduce all of the major players in the scandal concurrently.
- 5/29/2020
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen, The Good Fight’s Michael Sheen and Fleabag’s Sian Clifford are to star in Quiz, a drama about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? cheating scandal, for AMC and ITV.
The Breaking Bad broadcaster and the British commercial network have commissioned the TV adaptation of Brexit: An Uncivil War writer James Graham’s play from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures with A Very English Scandal’s Stephen Frears to direct.
This comes over a year after Deadline revealed that the Sony-owned producer was turning the play into a television drama.
Quiz tells the story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major, who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? It tells how Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock,...
The Breaking Bad broadcaster and the British commercial network have commissioned the TV adaptation of Brexit: An Uncivil War writer James Graham’s play from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures with A Very English Scandal’s Stephen Frears to direct.
This comes over a year after Deadline revealed that the Sony-owned producer was turning the play into a television drama.
Quiz tells the story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major, who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? It tells how Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock,...
- 8/16/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
BBC film-making department also ordered by trust to review the way it deals with independent producers
The BBC's film-making department responsible for big-screen releases including Made in Dagenham, In the Loop and An Education was today told by the BBC Trust to aim for bigger TV ratings and review the way it deals with independent producers.
There was "strong support" from within the film industry for BBC Films, the trust found, but said awareness of it among licence fee payers was "very low".
BBC Films should "make more impact on television by attracting greater audience reach and appreciation" and the trust singled out the opportunity to build a "stronger and more consistent presence on BBC2".
The corporation's film-making arm is set to make more of its movie archive by making older releases available online and via YouView, said the trust.
But it added that the BBC should review the terms...
The BBC's film-making department responsible for big-screen releases including Made in Dagenham, In the Loop and An Education was today told by the BBC Trust to aim for bigger TV ratings and review the way it deals with independent producers.
There was "strong support" from within the film industry for BBC Films, the trust found, but said awareness of it among licence fee payers was "very low".
BBC Films should "make more impact on television by attracting greater audience reach and appreciation" and the trust singled out the opportunity to build a "stronger and more consistent presence on BBC2".
The corporation's film-making arm is set to make more of its movie archive by making older releases available online and via YouView, said the trust.
But it added that the BBC should review the terms...
- 12/1/2010
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- BBC director general Mark Thompson will answer his critics and scope out the BBC's future when he delivers the MacTaggart lecture at this year's MediaGuardian Edinburgh Television Festival Aug. 27.
Thompson, who has spent the past year defending the pubcaster from the threat of financing cuts and from criticism that it has become too big and powerful, will outline the BBC's range and priorities following a root-and-branch internal strategic review that is due to report later this summer.
Whichever political party wins the British general election on May 6, the next government is likely to mean significant change for the BBC, which receives over £3.5 billion ($5.3 billion) in annual funding from viewers.
Amid a culture of public spending cuts, executive pay will likely continue to come under pressure from both parties, while David Cameron's Conservative Party has said it will scrap the BBC's governing body, the BBC Trust, should the Conservatives form the next administration.
Thompson, who has spent the past year defending the pubcaster from the threat of financing cuts and from criticism that it has become too big and powerful, will outline the BBC's range and priorities following a root-and-branch internal strategic review that is due to report later this summer.
Whichever political party wins the British general election on May 6, the next government is likely to mean significant change for the BBC, which receives over £3.5 billion ($5.3 billion) in annual funding from viewers.
Amid a culture of public spending cuts, executive pay will likely continue to come under pressure from both parties, while David Cameron's Conservative Party has said it will scrap the BBC's governing body, the BBC Trust, should the Conservatives form the next administration.
- 5/4/2010
- by By Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
✒The biter, it seems, has been bit. It is only a few short weeks since the BBC came under fire for scheduling Strictly Come Dancing against ITV1's The X Factor, only for the celebrity dance show to take a drubbing in the ratings. Now Top Gear is back on BBC2 but – what's this? – an hour later than its normal 8pm start time on a Sunday night, to avoid a clash with the ratings behemoth that is ... The X Factor. "We had no choice really," said Top Gear producer Andy Wilman. "X Factor on at the same time with the results show, Cowell on storming form, the whole nation glued – we know when to bravely bugger off and wait until the storm passes." If only they had thought of that with Strictly Come Dancing.
✒BBC trustee David Liddiment may as well tear up his review of Radio 2 and go home,...
✒BBC trustee David Liddiment may as well tear up his review of Radio 2 and go home,...
- 11/16/2009
- by Monkey
- The Guardian - Film News
LONDON -- All3Media co-founder, consultant and non-executive creative director David Liddiment is among the final eight names to be signed up for the new BBC Trust, the government said Thursday. The new structure is tasked with bringing the BBC closer to license fee payers and ensuring that the BBC is accountable and transparent. The new members appointed to the 12-strong trust, chaired by Michael Grade, also includes British Board of Film Classification vp Janet Lewis-Jones. The appointments were announced by Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell.
- 10/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Rachael Glaister has joined ALL3Media as head of press and marketing, the company said Thursday. Glaister takes up her new position after leaving an equivalent position at Carlton International Media Group earlier this year. ALL3Media International -- formerly part of Chrysalis TV Group -- is an independent U.K. television distributor created in August by Steve Morrison, Jules Burns and David Liddiment.
- 7/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Kevin Spacey said Thursday that he will stage four plays in his first season as artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre Co., directing one and starring in two, including the first British performance of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story. The two-time Oscar-winning actor, now fully based in the United Kingdom, said he will take the Cary Grant role of C.K. Dexter-Haven in Philadelphia Story, but said the remainder of the cast would not be chosen until a director has been selected. "It could be a big star or a complete unknown," said Spacey, who was named to the Old Vic position more than a year ago. Spacey joined producer David Liddiment in a news conference in the 180-year-old theater Thursday to detail the four productions of the Old Vic Company's £2 million ($3.5 million) season.
- 4/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Louise Pedersen, a 15-year veteran of Carlton International sales, will head up distribution for All3Media, the new name for Chrysalis TV Group, which was purchased last summer by a trio of U.K. television veteran executives, the company said Thursday. Pedersen, who ran Carlton's overseas sales business for six years, joins former Granada Plc. CEO Steve Morrison, former ITV network director David Liddiment and former Granada Plc. managing director of operations Jules Burns at All3Media. The Pedersen appointment comes at what Morrison said is an opportune time because of rule changes in the United Kingdom that give independent producers more opportunity to keep the international rights for shows they co-produce with broadcasters.
- 1/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- U.K. radio and entertainment group Chrysalis Plc. said Thursday that it has offloaded its television division to a group of former top ITV executives in a deal valued at £50.8 million ($81.7 million). The division has been acquired by former ITV controller David Liddiment, former Granada CEO Steve Morrison and former Granada operations managing director Jules Burns, with financial backing from equity firm Bridgepoint Capital. Chrysalis Television, most noted for producing such primetime ITV dramas as "Ultimate Force" and "Midsomer Murders", employs 264 people in London, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
ITV shareholder Carlton Communications said Wednesday that its chief executive, Gerry Murphy, has resigned and will leave his post in February. Murphy is leaving the television arena to take the CEO position at Kingfisher, Europe's biggest retail group. The announcement was made Wednesday morning in a short posting to the London Stock Exchange. Murphy, who will continue in his current role at Carlton until he starts his Kingfisher post in February, is the latest senior executive to quit the ITV network, whose director of programs, David Liddiment, and chief executive, Stuart Prebble, left earlier this year. The network is pinning its hopes of survival on a £2.6 billion ($4 billion) merger between lead shareholders Carlton and Granada. Murphy's departure was a foregone conclusion after his name was conspicuously absent from the executive lineup of the proposed merged ITV group, announced earlier in the month (HR 10/17). Under the new plan, Carlton chairman Michael Green and Granada chairman Charles Allen will run the merged broadcast group.
- 10/31/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As ITV shareholders Carlton and Granada announced long-awaited merger terms Wednesday, the network moved to end the uncertainty that has plagued it in recent months by naming BBC head of children's programming Nigel Pickard as director of programs. Pickard was head of children's entertainment at ITV before joining the BBC in 2000. He replaces highly regarded outgoing ITV program controller David Liddiment, who announced his departure in May. The appointment of Pickard to one of the highest-profile posts in British TV comes as a surprise to the industry, with some voices questioning Pickard's depth of experience in the areas of mainstream program production, event program scheduling and drama commissioning, which are crucial to ITV's survival. The network has lost 12% in audience share in the past 12 months and suffered the effects of a damaging advertising recession.
- 10/17/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Outgoing ITV program head David Liddiment has ended speculation that he has been persuaded to stay by network bosses, saying that he will definitely leave the troubled broadcaster before year's end. "I am leaving at the end of December; there is no question (about it)," he told a MIPCOM conference on formats. "I want to leave in the most elegant and friendly way possible, but it's non-negotiable. I've made the decision, and I'm off." Liddiment announced his departure from the network five months ago, saying he would wait until year's end to ensure a period of continuity with his successor (HR 7/8). But he has recently been the target of renewed wooing to stay from ITV shareholders Carlton and Granada, whose high-profile failure to find an executive prepared to take on the network's top job continues.
- 10/10/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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