Abstract
The three-part miniseries Quiz (ITV 2020) dramatizes the scandal surrounding purported cheating on the series Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (hereafter WWtBaM) in 2001. This article shall examine specific discourses which the miniseries portrays and critiques, in particular the representation of fans, the dramatized preconceptions about fans by the WWtBaM production team and television as a manipulative, profit-driven medium. It ultimately connects the miniseries to a number of contemporary discourses relating to history, television and collective memory to analyse how, as a dramatization, the miniseries invites the audience to both reconsider and recontextualize the events it portrays with the ostensible benefit of hindsight and new perspectives on an emotive event from living memory.
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