http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6172659.stm
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?
I thought this said “clown court,” and then was terribly disappointed.
MOCK TRIAL, WITH J. RHEINHOLD!
[MOCK TRIAL]
MOCK TRIAL, WITH J. RHEINHOLD!
Excuse me, in what universe is Sarah Payne’s mother a “celebrity”?
Can’t we just have reruns of the old Granada ones from the ’70s with Richard Wilson and Peter Wyngarde?
Hah! You think “Love thy neighbor” has aged badly...
The Verdict will also feature Sara Payne, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah
wtf—is she considered a celebrity because her daughter was murdered?
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.
The opening theme or the closing one?
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.
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?).
The Janacek piece was the opening theme. The closing one was a piece of Emmerdale-ish music library pastoralism called “Distant Hills.”
b-side to the VanderValk theme etc blah Simon Park etc.
Simon Park was cheated out of a hit with his Man About The House theme.
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?
I saw People’s Court UK once. Very depressing. I’m not surprised it only lasted one series.
BUT WHY DOES IT NEED CELEBRITIES??!
(nb I know the answer to this question)
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.
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?
My dad was in it once.
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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.
Coming next on quality-centred BBC TV: Celebrity County Court Judgements, as down-at-heel stars wrestle with their outstanding debts.
CELEBRITY TEXTING POKER
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.
Didn’t our Johnny do “Judge Judy” some time before “I’m a Celebjung”?
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.
Legal TV!
Whatever Next!
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!
Collymore is such a cunt.
Oh I did start a thread about this after all.
Didn’t watch it though.