Daily Mail transcript pt2 - sorry!
Posted Sat Jul 28 21:34:34 BST 2001 by 'Sexually Pleased'
The paste must have fucked up, and I didn't notice. Sorry!
He added : "I hope as a comedian I know what is funny. From what I know of Chris Morris, he has always been a bit risque but has stuck to stuff that is fair game. This time he's gone too far."
The show was commissioned by Channel 4 head of comedy and entertainment Caroline Leddy, herself the mother of a young child. It was made by Talkback - a production company founded by Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith. It was originally scheduled for last month but postponed after schoolgirl Danielle Jones went missing because the broadcaster feared it would cause offence.
The decision to show it this week would have gone through Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson and then to the eight-strong board of directors.
Chairman Vanni Treves, a City lawyer, was for three years the chairman of the NSPCC's Justic for Children appeal. He is also a chairman of Equitable Life.
He declared "It was a joint decision and I stand by it."
Asked whether he felt the number of complains perhaps indicated that the board had been wrong, he replied "No. We knew that some people would find it a sensitive programme and we factored that very carefully into our deceision."
Board member Peter Bazalgette, who was behind Changing Rooms and Ground Force, refused to comment. All six other board members, including Tony Blair's close friend and fundraiser Barry Cox, the deputy chairman of Channel 4, were not responding to phone calls.
A Channel 4 spokesman, however, defended the use of child actors, insisting that they were all aware of what they were doing and were chaperoned throughout the making of the show.
He described the programme as "Astonishingly vivid and original" and offered no apology to those who were offended or distessed, pointing instead to the fact that a warning about adult material had prefaced the programme.
He said "Brass Eye challenges what it perceives to be the hysterical way the media treats the issue and tackles inconsistencies in our attitudes to children and sex. It is a powerful satire on the way the media exploits and sensationalises the subject of paedophilia.
"It is a programme that is both humourous and directed to make a serious point. As with much of Chris Morris's work, it is in places disturbing and is astonishingly vivid and original."
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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Sat Jul 28 22:44:04 BST 2001:
>>>>>All six other board members, including Tony Blair's close friend and fundraiser Barry Cox, the deputy chairman of Channel 4, were not responding to phone calls.<<<<<
It's all Tony Blair's fault!
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Posted By 'Peter O'Toasterblast' on Sat Jul 28 22:47:18 BST 2001:
>>>>>>All six other board members, including Tony Blair's close friend and fundraiser Barry Cox, the deputy chairman of Channel 4, were not responding to phone calls.<<<<<
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>It's all Tony Blair's fault!
Yep. It makes you sick, all those interviews he did about doing his share of nappy changes for baby Leo. I bet I did.
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Posted By 'Peter O'Toasterblast' on Sat Jul 28 22:47:47 BST 2001:
>>>>>>>All six other board members, including Tony Blair's close friend and fundraiser Barry Cox, the deputy chairman of Channel 4, were not responding to phone calls.<<<<<
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>>It's all Tony Blair's fault!
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>Yep. It makes you sick, all those interviews he did about doing his share of nappy changes for baby Leo. I bet I did.
I meant 'he', not I - don't come and throw me on a bonfire!
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Posted By 'Beelzebub' on Sat Jul 28 22:49:27 BST 2001:
>>>It's all Tony Blair's fault!
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>>Yep. It makes you sick, all those interviews he did about doing his share of nappy changes for baby Leo. I bet I did.
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>I meant 'he', not I - don't come and throw me on a bonfire!
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Too right. He bribed Euan with a can of lager every time Leo had a cacked nappy.
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Posted By 'Miss NoTW' on Sat Jul 28 23:07:09 BST 2001:
fuking padferiles!
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Posted By Steve Berry on Sat Jul 28 23:18:25 BST 2001:
>fuking padferiles!
NOTW running a big story on BES for tomorrow's paper. As expected. Bit of a shame as one writer wanted to praise the series, but has been instructed to toe the party line.
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Posted By Jon on Sun Jul 29 17:55:54 BST 2001:
Did you notice that Vanni Treves is quoted as saying it was a "majority decision" to go ahead with the broadcast. Wonder how long before someone loses their nerve and breaks ranks.
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