Oh lordy...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20091109/ten-glitter-threatens-to-sue-over-tv-han-c60bd6d.html
Is anyone else going to watch this?
Gary Glitter cries foul!
Quote: The Rook @ November 9 2009, 12:13 PM GMTIs anyone else going to watch this?
No, because he makes me feel very sick.
He obviously agreed to take part in this show, for what ends I have no idea.
Not that I personally give a flying f**k what Mr Gadd thinks, but this programme sound both pointless and sensationalist. The preview reviews I've read so far do rather make it sound like a piece of worthless titillation dressed-up as a "thought-provoking" drama-doc.
What's next? The "imagined" imprisonment, rape and torture of John Leslie by a gang of non-existent Ultra-Feminists? The "imagined" assassination of President George Bush Jr...? Oh, they've already done that one. Apologies.
Quote: Griff @ November 9 2009, 12:18 PM GMTI don't think he has taken part in it? It's a TV drama with his role played by an actor. But I don't know if he has had some legal involvement along the way.
From the trailers it looks like it's him.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 9 2009, 12:21 PM GMTFrom the trailers it looks like it's him.
They may be using stock footage of him, but he had no involvement as far as I know in the making of the show. As Griff says, an actor will play him mostly. They plan to mix genuine footage of various interviewees on the subject, with especially staged ones. Brilliant. 
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 9 2009, 12:16 PM GMTNo, because he makes me feel very sick.
He obviously agreed to take part in this show, for what ends I have no idea.
I don't think they're hanging him, it's an actor. 
Quote: Nil Putters @ November 9 2009, 12:22 PM GMT
Really? I thought they would. 
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 9 2009, 12:23 PM GMTReally? I thought they would.
Silly. 
Quote: Griff @ November 9 2009, 12:23 PM GMTWell yeah, that's what they try to do in dramatisations. It's an actor called Hilton McRae.
It has been known to use real people in reconstruction dramatisations before now.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 9 2009, 12:16 PM GMTNo, because he makes me feel very sick.
He obviously agreed to take part in this show, for what ends I have no idea.
The article says he is sueing them if it goes out, so I doubt.
The Sun and Sky News seem to be having a pop at Gordon Brown today saying he didnt bow his head enough at the cenotaph. I wonder why they are doing that?
Quote: Marc P @ November 9 2009, 12:24 PM GMTThe Sun and Sky News seem to be having a pop at Gordon Brown today saying he didnt bow his head enough at the cenotaph. I wonder why they are doing that?
One of the papers (guess who?) is also having a go at him for his "scrawled" letters to relatives of dead servicemen. Got to give the guy a break on this one, he's half-blind for God's sake!
Quote: Tim Walker @ November 9 2009, 12:26 PM GMTOne of the papers (guess who?) is also having a go at him for his "scrawled" letters to relatives of dead servicemen. Got to give the guy a break on this one, he's half-blind for God's sake!
I know they are relating the two stories. I think it is repulsive.
Quote: Nil Putters @ November 9 2009, 12:24 PM GMTSilly.
It's because I have blonde hair. It apparently makes you really stupid.
Also, the guy may very well be having something of a nervous breakdown. I think the attacks on Gordon have become too personalised. I don't think he's up to the job of Prime Minister, but I neither think he deserves such vicious personal innuendo and criticism (despite the fact I've just implied that he might have mental health issues in this very paragraph). 
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 9 2009, 12:28 PM GMTIt's because I have blonde hair. It apparently makes you really stupid.
Only if you are a woman. Look at Boris Johnson.