The only loser in this game was the taxpayer. The production company received a much needed fillip, for a quiz show well past its sell-by date, the Ingrates and f**kWhittock will doubtless make a mint from the book and film rights and a DS, who should have been out nicking crack dealers, will get his promotion to Inspector.
Yes, it was all good entertainment, but it would have been better entertainment in the civil courts, at someone else's expense.