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Netflix has snapped up an 'addictive' drama series which tells the story of a real-life game show cheating scandal and has been hailed a must-watch.
First released back in 2020 on ITV, the series was created by Dear England writer James Graham and based on popular novel Bad Show: the Quiz, the Cough, the Millionaire Major by Bob Woffinden and James Plaskett.
Showcased across three tense episodes, Quiz tells the story of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? contestant Charles Ingram, a former armer major, who became the third person to ever win the £1million on the popular gameshow format.
The contestant was later known as the 'coughing major' after his time on screen in 2001, after producers noticed a distinctive coughing pattern coming from the audience when he was answering the questions.
Correct answers being repeated aloud by Ingram were always met with a series of coughs, helping him to pick the correct answer each time.
His coughing accomplice was Tecwen Whittock, alongside Ingram's wife Diana who was also in on the plot, and all three were caught out by the show's production staff.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? stopped the £1million payout before it was released, with Ingram later tried and convicted of fraud and dished out a prison sentence and a fine before the story was later dramatised in 2020.
Quiz starred Matthew Macfayden as Charles Ingram, while Sian Clifford played his wife Diana and Michael Sheen as the quiz show's host, Chris Tarrant.
Michael Jibson portrayed Ingram's accomplice Tecwen Whittock, Mark Bonnar as Paul Smith, the head of the company who produced the show and Helen McCrory was Sonia woodley QC, who defended Ingram in court.
First hitting screens during the pandemic, the series garnered a huge audience, with the debut episode peaking at 5.3million viewers.
It also was welcomed with dozens of glowing reviews from both critics and viewers alike - making it no surprise it has soared up the Netflix charts after its release.
The Guardian wrote at the time of it's release: 'The drama becomes as addictive as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? proved.
'Clifford, Macfadyen and Trystan Gravelle as Diana's brother Adrian who - along with his proliferating debts - provides the catalyst for the family's involvement, humanise the story while still leaving you boggling at its fathomless oddities.'
While Metro added: 'Like any great drama, Quiz balances both farce and high art to a spectacular degree.'
'Because this is not only a look at how obsessed one country got with trying to win an absurd amount of money on TV,' Empire agreed, 'but a dissection about our perception of truth and how it can be twisted in the press.'
Empire agreed: 'For all the energy and excitement of the first two episodes, it's in the final instalment that Quiz really crystallises into something great.
'In recreating the court case that unfolded over the eligibility of Ingram's win, Graham's screenplay shifts gear to reveal a modern parable.
'One where a quiz show all about finding definitive, factual answers somehow became the stage for a deeply improbable event in which there is no objective truth.
'There's just opposing narratives trying to make sense of it all with a million pounds (and a whole lot more) hanging in the balance.'
When Quiz was first released, show star Matthew, 51, refused to weigh in on whether he thought that the Ingrams were guilty of cheating on the show.
Speaking on the Final Answer podcast, writer James Graham said: 'Sian [Clifford] definitely would come on set every day and tell us about whether she thought they were innocent or guilty, and she definitely alternated between the two.
'And I know that informed her performance at points. But I think Matthew definitely kept his cards very close to his chest and didn't want to let us know.'
He continued: 'I think also Stephen [director Stephen Frears] encouraged him sometimes to do a take where definitely in his mind, Charles was guilty. And then also did takes where in his mind he wasn't.
'And there was one brilliant exchange between them where Matthew asked if Stephen could tell which he was going for and Stephen didn't.
'I think he really found the fun in playing with that idea. He didn't quite reveal to us exactly what was going on inside his head as Charles.'
Quiz is available to stream on Netflix now