The story attracted media attention, including a mention on the BBC Television's The One Show and quiz show Have I Got News For You.

By October 1958, the story was everywhere and the quiz shows ' Nielsen ratings were dropping.

In the news quiz Have I Got News For You episode hosted by Rolf Harris he used a Stylophone to play two tunes used as clues to a news story.

However, contemporary criticism of the story indicated that the film violated Beauregard's criticism of the nature of quiz shows in its final plot twist, with Beauregard being given his own quiz show-unless Beauregard were to use the opportunity to reform quiz shows by having one that is truly intellectually stimulating.

After clerking for United States Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter in 1958, Goodwin came to Senator John F. Kennedy's attention in 1959 while working as special counsel to the Legislative Oversight Subcommittee of the U. S. House of Representatives, where Goodwin was involved in investigating the Twenty One quiz show scandal ( which provided the story for the 1994 movie Quiz Show in which he is portrayed by actor Rob Morrow ).

Goddard was one of the ' explorers ' who were evaporated in a ( now missing ) episode of the BBC science fiction quiz programme The Adventure Game ( 1980 ), played a space pirate in the Doctor Who story Terminus ( 1983 ), and appeared in Roll Over Beethoven ( 1985 ).

Carrbridge became a minor celebrity with the story appearing on national news networks and the quiz show Have I Got News For You.

The story that he himself in his childhood was sent to Ireland to be healed by Saint Modwenna, though mythical, may show Alfred's interest in that island.

This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to become victims of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, while the emphasized character ( usually a Breakout Character ) ( as in the case of Frasier Crane ) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified back stories.

It was far better television than it had to be ; during an era of formulaic domestic sitcoms and wacky comedies, it was a stylistically ambitious show, with a distinctive visual style, absurdist sense of humour and unusual story structure.

Usually flashbacks show earlier portions of the story.

Show creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland also wrote a book about the show in 1987, entitled EastEnders: The Inside Story ( ISBN 978-0-563-20601-9 ), telling the story of how the show made it to screen.

While usually harmless, Mike is not above using underhanded tactics to get his way — in A Hole in the Heart ( series 3 ), he steals a story from Marty because viewers are responding positively to it, while in Addicted to Fame, he demands that Geoffrey's television show be cancelled because he is jealous of the attention his friend is getting.

Like most of the employees of Frontline, she has no ethical problems with any action the show takes to get a good story.

Bryan Cogman, story editor of the TV adaptation, said that only little backstory is presented on-screen to prevent the show from collapsing under the weight of the rich backstory.

In the Qur ' an's narrative of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son ( XXXVII: 102 ), the name of the son is not mentioned and debate has continued over the son's identity, though many feel that the identity is the least important element in a story which is given to show the courage that one develops through faith.

This story may also be construed erroneously to show the power of Alexandria over Athens during the Ptolemaic dynasty.

" On the other hand, in Letter 153 he said, " I tried to show allegorically how might come to be taken up into Creation in some plane in my ' purgatorial ' story Leaf by Niggle.

Many of the smaller buildings from this time are typical Scanian: two story urban houses that show a strong Danish influence.

CMF units were sometimes scorned by AIF soldiers as " chocolate soldiers " or " chockos ", because " they would melt under the pressure " of military operations ; or in an alternative version of the story of the origin of this term, as a result of the 1930s ' uniforms of Militia soldiers, these soldiers were considered by AIF volunteers and some civilians as soldiers only for show like the soldiers in garish 19th century dress uniforms shown on tins of chocolates that were commonly sold in Australia in the 1930s, hence the name " chocolate-tin soldiers " for Militia members.

" This was elaborated by George Speaight in his Punch & Judy: A History ( 1970 ), who explained that the plotline " is like a story compiled in a parlour game of Consequences ... the show should, indeed, not be regarded as a story at all but a succession of encounters.

They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ ; Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus.

The studio heads repeatedly asked for daily rushes but Flaherty had nothing to show because he had not filmed anything yet — his approach was to try to live with the community, becoming familiar with their way of life before building a story around it to film.

Whereas a viewer of a television show is a passive observer, a player in a role-playing game makes choices that affect the story.

" Gramma ", a short story made into a film in the 1980s anthology horror show The New Twilight Zone, mentions Lovecraft's notorious fictional creation Necronomicon, also borrowing the names of a number of the fictional monsters mentioned therein.

This type of story was a major feature of the radio program My Word !, with a contest between Denis Norden and Frank Muir to see whose story was the most outrageous ending to each show.

Archie Campbell of the television show Hee Haw was also well known for telling twisted tales, the most famous of which being the story of " RinderCella ".

The season-long story is that Larry David tries to initiate a Seinfeld reunion show as a ploy to get his ex-wife, Cheryl, back.

At the end of the show, Mary Tyler Moore announced the following over the credits: " If the Pittsburgh Steelers win the actual Super Bowl tomorrow, we want to apologize to the Pittsburgh team and their fans for this purely fictional story.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.

He vehemently asserted his own authority as Patriarch over that of the Pope in Rome, and would have made the most of any scandal of that time regarding the Papacy ; but he never mentions the story once in any of his voluminous writings.

In 1872 the Weekly published a story that set off a national scandal and preoccupied the public for months.

" What's the story on the radio payola scandal of the 1950s ?.

Political corruption in Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne County became a major regional news story following nationwide publication of stories about the Kids for Cash scandal, a kickback scheme involving two local judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, charged with enriching themselves by investing in juvenile detention facilities to which they subsequently sentenced children under their judicial power.

Spirko continued as a Chicago reporter for many years, breaking a story of thieving policemen known as the Summerdale police scandal.

* Ismat Chughtai wrote an Urdu-language story entitled " Lihaf " (" The Quilt ", 1941 ) that led to scandal and an unsuccessful attempt at legal prosecution of the author because it was about a lesbian relationship.

Reporter Gina Smith broke the Mark Sanford scandal story on June 24, 2009 when she interviewed Sanford at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport as he returned from Argentina

In the television series Boss, a multiepisode story arc involves the main character, Mayor of Chicago Tom Kane ( Kelsey Grammer ), being damaged by a scandal in which he authorized the dumping of carcinogenic chemicals that soak into the groundwater of Bensenville.

After hanging up, Bergman contacts The New York Times and reveals the scandal that occurred at 60 Minutes, after which the Times publishes a scathing article that accuses CBS of betraying the legacy of their famous reporter, Edward R. Murrow for bowing to such attempts to silence publication of a truthful news story.

The story of the scandal is told in David McClintick's 1982 bestseller Indecent Exposure.

While the Berlin tournament was being played, the largest-circulation German tabloid, Bild, ran a story about an alleged scandal involving Graf's father.

News of the scandal first broke on January 17, 1998, on the Drudge Report, which reported that Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff exposing the affair.

The film dramatization Hilary and Jackie, supported by Hilary Finzi, changes the story line of the memoir on several key factual points, and has been criticized by some for imposing a scandal on Jacqueline's personal life.

So, a true-life scandal with noteworthy parallels to the Leir / Lear story was in the news in 1603 and 1604, and may have helped to inspire both Shakespeare's play and the publication of the old play King Leir.

Novak broke the story in his column, which resulted in a government scandal.

In 2009, The Oregonian was scooped for a third time on a story of an Oregon politician's sex scandal, this time involving Mayor Sam Adams about what Newsweek called his " public deception and private bad judgment " about his past relationship with a teenage legislative intern.

Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week broke the story after 18 months of investigations ; Jaquiss's reporting on another sex scandal involving Neil Goldschmidt earned Jaquiss a 2005 Pulitzer Prize.

" The story broke on Boxing Day during a quiet news period and intense coverage was given to the scandal.

In July 1992, Mellor was involved in a kiss and tell scandal in which actress Antonia de Sancha sold her story of Mellor's extra-marital affair with her, for £ 30, 000.

* The Tankerville Club which Colonel Moran is a member of is also mentioned in the short story " The Five Orange Pips " in which John Openshaw says that Holmes saved club member Major Prendergast from public scandal.

The newsmagazine series This Hour Has Seven Days was one of the major news organizations involved in covering the scandal, and when that series was cancelled by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) just weeks after the Munsinger Affair broke, it was believed by some observers that the show's dogged pursuit of the story had been one of the real reasons for its cancellation.

During its extensive coverage of the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, The Daily Telegraph published the story that Simpson had claimed £ 185 for light bulbs over a period of four years.

The short story " A Shambles in Belgravia " features Professor Moriarty and Irene Adler working to cause a scandal in the Ruritanian government.