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"Analyse the techniques used to create tension and viewerenjoyment in 'who wants to be a millionaire?'".
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Chanelle Gray Media Timed Piece "Analyse the techniques used to create tension and viewer enjoyment in 'who wants to be a millionaire?'" One day, back in 1934, listeners to the wireless heard a strange new programme. It consisted simply of a man putting questions to the listeners - and encouraging them to write down the answers. This started off the history of the quizzes. The word quiz is Latin, which simply means, "who are you?" in Latin that is "Qui es?" After radio quizzes the BBC and ITV was formed. A large amount of quiz shows became popular to make, as they were cheap to run. From the 1970s/1980s, there were limits on prize money and it was economical for TV companies as greed wasn't popular and was seen as socially undesirable. The first quiz show was on a pirate radio station called Radio Luxemburg and it was called the Symingtons soup programme because...
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