Celebrity Bleedin' Crown Court!

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The thing is: This is totally unscripted, and the jurors have to work out the truth of the matter.

This is unlike the CC of old, where a scripted performance was played out, and the jury would determine if after all that's been seen, the def is G or I.

OK, celebs, the truth is: They are actors, and the 'crime' never happened.

It's not exactly demystifying anything, is it?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought this said "clown court," and then was terribly disappointed.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

MOCK TRIAL, WITH J. RHEINHOLD!
[MOCK TRIAL]
MOCK TRIAL, WITH J. RHEINHOLD!

― Ste (fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Excuse me, in what universe is Sarah Payne's mother a "celebrity"?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't we just have reruns of the old Granada ones from the '70s with Richard Wilson and Peter Wyngarde?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Hah! You think "Love thy neighbor" has aged badly...

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The Verdict will also feature Sara Payne, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah

wtf - is she considered a celebrity because her daughter was murdered?

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Great theme, the old Crown Court. This Is Your Right with Lord Winstanley is surely worth a DVD compilation too.

Oh, the exquisite boredom of sick days off school in the late '70s.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The opening theme or the closing one?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

The Verdict will also feature Sara Payne, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah, footballer Stan Collymore and actress Patsy Palmer.

I originally read this as saying that Sara Payne is the mother of all these people, which would be something to shout about.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The opening theme or the closing one?

Were they different? I can't remember. I'm thinking of the Janacek piece. See also: the old OU sting (which composer was that?).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The Janacek piece was the opening theme. The closing one was a piece of Emmerdale-ish music library pastoralism called "Distant Hills."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

b-side to the VanderValk theme etc blah Simon Park etc.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Simon Park was cheated out of a hit with his Man About The House theme.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The Beeb (I think) have already done a programme in which they allowed a shadow jury to watch a trial and then filmed their deliberations. It's very depressing.

Of course, the people they used for that jury weren't "celebrities" and therefore that programme can't have been "hugely ambitious" or informative. Dumbing down, anyone?

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw People's Court UK once. Very depressing. I'm not surprised it only lasted one series.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

BUT WHY DOES IT NEED CELEBRITIES??!

― tissp! (tissp!), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

(nb I know the answer to this question)

― tissp! (tissp!), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

The Janacek piece was the opening theme. The closing one was a piece of Emmerdale-ish music library pastoralism called "Distant Hills."

Ah, right. I think this demonstrates that, for all my rose-tinted nostalgia for the show, I probably never watched an episode through to the end.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

What, even on the Friday with the all-important verdict as Peter Wheeler gravely intoned that Roddy Maitland, having been found guilty of first degree murder, had been sentenced to life imprisonment?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

My dad was in it once.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

xxxpost

In fact the celebrities destroy any educational element the programme might have. They all have public profiles/persona to maintain, so they'll be constantly performing. Fine if the programme's just a bit of fun, let's be cool. I just wish the BBC wouldn't insult our intelligence by pretending otherwise.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Coming next on quality-centred BBC TV: Celebrity County Court Judgements, as down-at-heel stars wrestle with their outstanding debts.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

CELEBRITY TEXTING POKER

― tissp! (tissp!), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Other new shows include Jennifer Saunders's The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, set in the world of confessional TV shows, political drama Party Animals and Louis Theroux visits Las Vegas in Louis & The Casino.
Graham Norton presents a new talk show for BBC Two, The Graham Norton Show, while Top Gear also returns with Richard Hammond.

And in The Truth About Food, presenters - including Colin Jackson, Fiona Bruce and Vic Reeves - will take viewers on a journey of discovery to find out what food can do for them.

In fact I've changed my mind, Marcello and Grimly are right, scrap the licence fee now please.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't our Johnny do "Judge Judy" some time before "I'm a Celebjung"?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't we just have reruns of the old Granada ones from the '70s with Richard Wilson and Peter Wyngarde?

Legal TV on Sky shows reruns of crown court almost continuously.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Legal TV!

Whatever Next!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

Did anyone end up watching this? I watched it last night and found it pretty shit tbh even though it's an interesting idea that because we know the personalities we can see where their verdicts are coming from. P4tsy p4lmer is a pain and St4n C0llymore is a bully. Archer is a tool, P0rtillo is the ugliest man alive (good at chairmaning a meeting though!).

I also felt that there was no point in interviewing the old luvvie after 'rape victim' had been walked by.

The tape was horrific though.

Actually, I'm pretty undecided about this so it must have worked!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Collymore is such a cunt.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I did start a thread about this after all.

Didn't watch it though.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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