![]() ![]() whether or not the Ingrams cheated on this game show. ![]() ![]() "But I do think it's the responsibility of drama to humanise characters and people that have been demonised and made to feel really unsympathetic. Graham said it is not the responsibility of television drama to overturn court verdicts. While the Ingrams' defence counsel in court argued that ITV had only magnified strategic audience coughs out of 192 in all. This episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? did not just inspire this mini-series - Graham has already produced a stage play on the saga, and it has also inspired the book Bad Show: The Quiz, the Cough, the Millionaire Major which suggested the Ingrams were innocent. "This story completely encapsulated a whole swathe of very middle class, English professionals who were so obsessed by Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? that they started forming organisations to try and hack into the show, and it's just a gift for a writer, that sort of story is just a complete gift." It was also fascinating to explore the culture of "quiz obsessives", he said. "We're not trying to convince people that this couple are innocent or guilty, we're just trying to raise questions about whether or not our perception of this story has been manipulated, or how we can be manipulated by forces outside of ourselves." Graham said it raises questions about how well we can ever know any story and how well we can ever perceive truth and reality when it comes to how we see the world. "This particular story of an alleged heist of a million pounds from a very polite, middle class, professional English couple, it just made for television drama. It's an extraordinary story that features a very very ordinary couple who get so fixated on a particular obsession in a game show." ![]() Mini-series writer James Graham said he was captivated by the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? as a teenager. ![]()
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