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Quiz: What the Must Watch reviewers think

Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan share their thoughts on Quiz.

The ITV three-part drama explores the Who Wants to Be A Millionaire coughing scandal, and stars Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford, Helen McCrory and Michael Sheen.

It started on Monday 13 April on ITV, and runs across the week, with episode two on Tuesday 14 April at 21:00 BST, and episode three on Wednesday 15 April at 21:00 BST.

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Hayley says: “It’s so fun and so funny – I loved it"

“This tells the whole story from the pitch meeting of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ to its massive ratings and how, for one family, winning this gameshow became an obsession and they all had to have a go at it. When it came to the husband’s turn, he didn’t know the answers to any of the questions, including one about Craig David, so they ended up cheating with this coughing thing.

"It’s so odd watching it in the midst of a pandemic where if you hear someone cough a block away you flinch, so there’s an added element of how obvious the coughing is and how odd it is that no one is noticing it except for the sound guy.

"I loved this show, it’s brilliant in its charm and mischief; it’s so fun and so funny."

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Scott says: “You’ll be amazed at how much you didn’t know about this story"

"I would say genuinely that this is my favourite show of the year so far. What I love about this show is that it looks at a small period of our history that you think you know everything about… but from watching it you very quickly realise you didn't know that much about it at all.

“There are many moments in this show where you’ll go, ‘did that really happen?’ and it actually did. The heart of the story looks at the ITV executives scrambling to work out how contestant Charles Ingram was able to get £1m despite changing his mind on many of the questions and apparently not knowing that much about the subjects. Charles Ingram and his wife’s whole lives unravelled in public afterwards.

"Then there’s an interesting ethical element to the show too, the whole ‘trial by jury vs trial by the public’ theory. Does it really matter whether or not somebody is convicted, when it ultimately depends on what the public think of them anyway?

"This is a brilliant, well executed, well-acted entertaining show and I literally couldn’t love it anymore. It’s totally a Must Watch."

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Quiz started on ITV on Monday 13 April, with two more episodes on Tuesday 14 April and Wednesday 15 April at 21:00 BST.

Must Watch is available as a podcast every Monday evening from BBC Sounds, or through your podcast app.

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