Live shows are cancelled – thank goodness we’ve still got TV

So high is the quality of programming on the box, all you need to do is stay home, wash your hands and switch on, writes Charlotte Cripps

Uncanny: Sian Clifford, Matthew Macfadyen and Michael Sheen in ‘Quiz’ (ITV)

Glastonbury isn’t happening. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been called off. The West End will remain closed. The Royal Opera House is empty. Live shows are scratched as we battle coronavirus – but thank god we’ve got TV.

During this last week of lockdown it’s been hard to decide which TV channel to switch on.

We’ve had ITV’s gripping drama Quiz broadcast over three consecutive days, based on the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? coughing scandal. The Independent‘s Ed Cumming described it as “a brilliant, big-hearted romp through one of the great British scandals of the century” in his five-star review. It was brilliantly adapted for television by the playwright James Graham, who also wrote the hit stage play of the same name. It starred Succession’s Matthew McFayden as Charles Ingram, Fleabag’s Sian Clifford as his wife, Diana, and Michael Sheen doing an uncanny impression of host Chris Tarrant.