Quiz: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Michael Sheen plays Chris Tarrant in a dramatisation of the coughing scandal
Year: 2020
Certificate: 12
It's easy to forget what a huge deal Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? was when it began, back in 1998. No one had given away £1 million on UK TV before, and this breezy drama charts both the show's creation - by a bunch of swaggering TV types who see themselves as gods - and the great coughing scandal.
Michael Sheen gives an eerily accurate performance as Chris Tarrant, and Matthew Macfadyen is Major Ingram in a razzle-dazzle three-parter that bowls along at a grand old pace, and manages to be both tense and in no way difficult to watch. The script comes from James Graham (Sherwood) and it's directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen). (Three episodes)
