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- Jun 13, 2016
This was on the ITV Hub after being shown back to back over three days last week. It's all about Major Charles Ingram, the man, the legend, who in 2001 went on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and cheated by skipping around between answers out loud while an accomplice and/or his wife coughed obviously when he mused over the right answers. And then tried to explain it away as a strategy with sub-strategies.
If you haven't seen it yet, you should. It's pretty good. The only thing I will say is that it kinda pushes in the last episode that maybe he, his wife, and his accomplice were all innocent by devoting way more time to the defence case and not looking at the whole thing as a whole.
Highlights for me:
- The existence of "the Syndicate" in the first episode, a group of pub quiz champions and enthusiasts who work together to get each other onto the programme with the power of weaponised autism. Given that this was before broadband internet access was really common and before Wikipedia existed, it's kind of admirable. I actually believe in their existence more than anything else floated by the programme because as a K-Farmer I know about weaponised autism.
- Member berrying at the early days of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. It actually was, for a period in 1999 to 2001, a programme that people went potty over in the UK.
- Major Ingram saying with a straight face that he'd never heard of Craig David and then guessing (successfully, and against his prior hunches) that same released an album called "Born to Do It." (That actually happened in those exact words.)
- Building a fastest finger first machine.
- I don't believe the story that after the scandal broke someone shot their dog. But I believe the coughing and car-egging. WWTBAM was srs bsns back then.
