Quiz FIRST LOOK: Michael Sheen transforms into Millionaire host Chris Tarrant in drama based on 'cou

The first trailer for the Quiz has been released, and it offers fans their first glimpse at ITV's three-part drama based on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire coughing cheat scandal. Michael Sheen takes centre stage in the preview as egendary presenter Chris Tarrant, while Succession star Matthew Macfadyen plays the army man who cheated his way to £1 million pounds with the help of his wife Diana.Quiz will show how Charles and Diana used a few perfectly placed coughs to cheat their way to becoming millionaires on the titular quiz show, and how their crime was exposed and turned into a national scandal.Scroll down for video  The trailer with a glimpse of the moment Charles comes face-to-face with Chris for the first time, ready to play for the top prize of £1 million. It hints that it could be other forces that push Charles to try and cheat his way through the show, as someone tells him: 'The man who asks the questions may be king, but the man who knows the answers is God.'As Millionaire's lights dim and the signature music plays, Charles and Diana (played by Sian Clifford) arrive at the ITV Studios for their appearance, but it seems that from the beginning The Major wasn't pulling the strings in his plan. Diana says on the phone: 'He's going to need all the help he can get,' while Celador Television Chairman Paul Smith (Mark Bonnar) adds that Millionaire is helping people make 'life changing decisions.' Charles famously cheated his way to the top prize with the help of fellow contestant Tecwen Whittock (played by Michael Jibson) who coughed after hearing the correct answer for each multiple choice questions.  The coughs would not have been heard by viewers at home watching the show (which was never aired apart from during an ITV documentary) as a majority of the sound was focused on the hot seat.  Later in the trailer, Charles insists that he's a 'commissioned officer in the British Army with standards,' but still appears to go ahead with his plan.Diana can then be seen watching her husband in the Millionaire audience, appearing to cough during one pivotal question.In an ITV documentary based on the scandal, that moment came when Charles was playing to win £32,000 and neither he nor Whittock could decide whether to answer Craig David or A1. Quiz will also show the aftermath of Charles 'win,' as he and Diana are shown being interrogated by police officers, and claim that producers told him to dither on each answer in an attempt to build tension.  The trailer then hints that Charles could have used a rigged machine to make it through the Fastest Finger First round, when contestants had to put four answers in the correct order in the quickest time to reach the famous hot seat.Throughout their trial and in its build-up Charles and Diana repeatedly insisted they hadn't cheated, even when they were convicted of deception.  In line with Chris' claims that he had no idea Charles was cheating when he recorded the show, Michael's version of the prese

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