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The BBC are unbelievable!!! (possible minor spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by Munstrum_Ridcully
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This was going to be the jewel in the BBC's Halloween line up, but because the whole Jimmy Savile fiasco came to light the BBC bottle out again and shelve a film with themes based on the the idea of vengeful spirit children seeking justice for abuse against them until at least mid November because they don't want to draw attention to the fact they the Beeb, may have been see to be complicit in organised child abuse.

Atheism is a religion in the same way that celibacy is a sexual position

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[–] jurassicmarc 11 years ago

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/08/jimmy-savile-jersey-childrens-home

I think this may be what has the BBC nervous I remember when the story broke not long after the novel came out and thinking there were some striking similarities in the case and the plot of the book.

"Its just a ride"

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[–] Prelude_in_C_maj 11 years ago

I had wondered why this is randomly airing now, when it would have been so good for Halloween -- when there was crap-all on!

However, isn't it a different form of child abuse? With Savile, the abuse was sexual, with Crickley Hall the abuse was just violence, surely? I've only seen the first episode, I haven't read the book.

[–] julie_robin2 11 years ago

And the irony is that they have inadvertently now timed a drama that includes a theme of children and adults being drowned in a flooding right as parts of the UK are under water and one man has died in a flood hit car and another is missing.
Poor BBC, they can't do right for doing wrong!

I prefer Imaginality to reality.

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[–] julie_robin2 11 years ago

I think the BBC have been paranoid about this ever since they unfortunately scheduled an episode of Casualty featuring a big plane crash right on the 3rd anniversary of - the Lockerbie plane crash.
They really got hammered over that in the press, I seem to remember, and given that the anxiety levels at the BBC must be at fever pitch after the last few week's press stories I guess they are risking nothing that could have The Daily Mail and it's readers up in arms. Again.

I prefer Imaginality to reality.

[–] coney_island_baby 11 years ago

I seem to remember that on the first anniversary of Maddy McCann going missing (which was quite a big deal at the time), the BBC screened the kids movie 'Madeleine'--about a little blonde girl who gets kidnapped.

Sometimes they think, sometimes they don't...

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