As I've noted in the past, I enjoy a talk show on BBC America, The Graham Norton Show. For the past few weeks, like most talk shows, they’ve been doing an at-home version, and one of their guests last Friday was Michael Sheen. The whole interview is fun, but one segment of it leaps out. He’s finished a movie based on a true event, not known here but a big deal in England, when there was a cheating scandal on their version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Sheen (who's made a career playing real-life people from Tony Blair to David Frost, British actor Kenneth Williams and soccer coach Brian Clough) plays another real-life personality here, the very popular, long-running host of the show Chris Tarrant, (who was not part of the scandal), and he “recreates” the role for the talk show and he and Norton play a brief, funny version of it. He’s a hoot, but what you’ll love is when the host decides he has to phone a friend. And who the friend is, and their conversation. By the way, I’ve tracked down a bunch of video of Chris Tarrant, who Sheen plays in the movie, and it will not shock you to learn his performance is spot-on brilliant (which you can tell when host Norton breaks into laughter upon hearing it). But in case you want to check it out for yourself, here's a montage of the real Chris Tarrant introducing himself to the friends who the contestants have had him phone for assistance. The actor who plays the cheater with his wife is played by Matthew Macfadyen, who I love. And the good news is that it was co-produced by AMC, so it will air here in the U.S. on May 25. It’s called Quiz. If you want to jump to them playing the game, it starts around 2:30, though the whole thing is fun. And it gets especially fun when Graham Norton phones a friend...
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Douglass Abramson
4/27/2020 11:00:24 pm
I just saw a commercial on AMC, they are airing the "Millionaire" show as a miniseries starting 5/31.
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Robert Elisberg
4/28/2020 10:36:02 am
Thanks for the update. Obviously they've push the date back six days from the original announcement. I'll go change the article.
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