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Madeleine McCann: Rob Blackhurst’s Maddy Theme Holiday, BBC Apologises And If Cars Could Talk

mccann3 Madeleine McCann: Rob Blackhursts Maddy Theme Holiday, BBC Apologises And If Cars Could TalkMADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann

GLASGOW DAILY RECORD: “BBC apologies over McCanns over Madeleine anniversary film blunder”

THE BBC have apologised to the McCann family for scheduling a film about a runaway girl called Madeleine on the anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance…

But bungling Beeb chiefs scheduled the 1998 children’s film Madeleine for the weekend of the first anniversary of the youngster’s disappearance.

Can you separate fact from fiction? Call 0800 HELPMEIMMAD and our team of trained TV watchers will talk you through the plot.

The movie, starring Nigel Hawthorne, is about an orphan who runs away and manages to foil a kidnap plot. The blunder was only spotted at the last minute and the BBC hastily replaced the film with the 2005 Lindsay Lohan movie Herbie Fully Loaded.

You know, the one about the car with the big secret.

DAILY TELEGRAPH: “BBC apologises to Madeleine McCann’s parents”

Says a source close to the McCanns:

“It is disgraceful that the BBC of all people should be so insensitive and not spot this was going to happen,” they said. “Surely with everything that has happened this year, any executive would notice if their station broadcast a film called Madeline involving a kidnapped child? Would that not ring alarm bells?

“It’s not that they should never show the film but someone must have checked it was appropriate and checked the dates it was being aired. It’s things like that which must be upsetting to Kate and Gerry.”

Do the McCanns set the TV schedules. If so, can we please, please have the A-Team back? And ever since he tripped on cobble stone, Old Mr Anorak has not been able to watch Coronation Street without feeling sick. Can the show be scrapped or moved to 6am, when he is having his rub?

NEW STATESMAN: “Rob Blackhurst books a family break at a Portuguese resort - and finds himself babysitting in Praia da Luz”

My girlfriend and I had planned a quick week away with Kitty, her four-year-old. Cash-strapped after moving house, we’d heard of the travel company Mark Warner’s middle-class holiday camp regime: sun, sailing, tennis, good food, children’s meals and a well-staffed kids’ club that lasted all morning.

It was only when we googled the “Upscale Ocean Club” in Portugal that it dawned on us: we were taking a four-year-old to the same complex, with the same company, as the McCanns had visited a year ago. This took some finding, as there was scarcely any mention of Praia da Luz on its website.

Shock, and horror: 

Reactions of families and friends varied from the gut response “You are sick” to (more commonly) a philosophical “These things can happen anywhere”. From our parents, there was just a tight-lipped “Be careful”…

When we took Kitty to her kids’ club, we shivered when we realised that it was the same bright room - with buggies and dolls, mini-furniture and finger paintings - in which Madeleine spent that last afternoon…

 Another Maddy?

But although it felt like a taboo to discuss Madeleine, every parent shared their own heart-stopping moment after a few glasses of wine. Ours came in the village supermarket when Kitty disappeared behind a stand of beach balls and we lost her for 15 seconds.

Tell Tony Parsons. He hears you.

Madeleine McCann and me: Making copy while the sun shines.

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481 Responses to “Madeleine McCann: Rob Blackhurst’s Maddy Theme Holiday, BBC Apologises And If Cars Could Talk”

  1. chenier Says:

    WhEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

  2. jo Says:

    First! :lol: :lol:

  3. chenier Says:

    The car should observe its vow of silence.

    Omerta rules, OK?

  4. jo Says:

    1
    chenier

    Hey you!!! I was here first!

  5. chenier Says:

    2
    jo Says:

    May 9th, 2008 at 9:35 am
    First!

    ——————————–

    Sadly not, twas moi…

  6. jo Says:

    To whom the mccanns could apologize?
    Is the list too long?

  7. Anorak Says:

    The Maddy theme holiday is upon us…

  8. jo Says:

    Chenier
    I had a very vivid dream
    I dreamt the PJ knew where ans how Ms body was,where it was put and transported :shock:
    I know it is only a dream but …I dont know,it was really,really vivid.
    I dont pay that much importance to my dreams but this time….it was too “real”
    May be I became too sensitive to it

  9. SteveT Says:

    7th

  10. chenier Says:

    Probably; besides, as far as I can tell the McCanns did not attend Politeness 101 so any apology seems somewhat implausible.

    However, Herbie the car must know something and I suggest we start removing bits of him until he confesses all…

  11. chenier Says:

    7
    Anorak Says:

    May 9th, 2008 at 9:41 am
    The Maddy theme holiday is upon us…

    —————————————–

    And in the New Satesman, to boot…

  12. jo Says:

    “I hurried back to the apartment and double-checked the patio doors.”

    WELL DONE,mccBollocks!
    This is what you”ve done to a sleepy,familial littel place in portugal:install fear and unease in people”s minds.Fantastic :evil:

  13. Matt. Says:

    666th…… hmmmmph. :(

    Hey ho….another no-news day…

  14. irish girl spain Says:

    660
    Matt. Says:
    May 9th, 2008 at 9:22 am
    577…The Real Stig

    577
    The Real Stig Says:

    May 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
    558 AyeRight Says:

    “Or maybe because you said it in another post (”lilly white Irish butt” sticks in my mind for some reason)”

    The Irish don’t say ‘butt’
    ==========
    Good morning.
    LOL.
    It was me, i confess.
    I said it here a couple of times “you can kiss my lily white irish arse”
    :shock: :lol: :blush:

  15. Matt. Says:

    14…irish girl spain

    Excused. :)

    Although the full text was….

    660
    Matt. Says:

    May 9th, 2008 at 9:22 am
    577…The Real Stig

    577
    The Real Stig Says:

    May 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
    558 AyeRight Says:

    “Or maybe because you said it in another post (”lilly white Irish butt” sticks in my mind for some reason)”

    The Irish don’t say ‘butt’

    *************************************

    Many people use words to describe anatomical parts which
    originated in the U S of A…..Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh.
    Individual choice no matter what Nationality really.

  16. jo Says:

    http://bp3.blogger.com/_3HAnFzHSqqE/RxOHF7ajhwI/AAAAAAAAAGY/C19JkDlGOak/s1600-h/strollers.jpg

    About buggies….they had a buggy

  17. Carmen Says:

    we were taking a four-year-old to the same complex, with the same company, as the McCanns had visited a year ago.

    *************************

    Journalist books family including four year old daughter into same complex with same company in time for anniversary…..and emerges with some good copy for his employers……….

    Shades of John Gummer and the infamous hamburger methinks.

  18. irish girl spain Says:

    Matt,
    sorry for leaving that out!
    I was discussing Mcc’s or CM for talking out of theirs,,,,, (IMO etc),
    hence my invitation to them ;-)

  19. irish girl spain Says:

    16
    jo Says:

    May 9th, 2008 at 9:58 am
    http://bp3.blogger.com/_3HAnFzHSqqE/RxOHF7ajhwI/AAAAAAAAAGY/C19JkDlGOak/s1600-h/strollers.jpg

    About buggies….they had a buggy

    =====
    good morning jo.
    Wonder who was in those buggys?
    Looks like they’d suffocate in that heat.

  20. Matt. Says:

    18…irish girl spain

    Apology not required. :)

  21. brandon flours Says:

    ♫ ♫ :-D Good mornin’, good mornin’!
    Sunbeams will soon smile through,
    Good mornin’, good mornin’, to you,
    And you, and you, and you! :-D ♫ ♫

  22. jo Says:

    An old link

    Madeleine: Kidnap theories ‘inconsistent’ with evidence
    Study shows kidnapper would not have been able to escape unseen

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=486648&in_page_id=1770

    and gone……….

  23. chenier Says:

    17
    Carmen Says:

    May 9th, 2008 at 9:58 am
    we were taking a four-year-old to the same complex, with the same company, as the McCanns had visited a year ago.

    *************************

    Journalist books family including four year old daughter into same complex with same company in time for anniversary…..and emerges with some good copy for his employers……….

    Shades of John Gummer and the infamous hamburger methinks.

    —————————————————————-

    Scurrying through the streets late at night in search of some fags, he’s struck by how sinister it all is.

    God knows where he lives in Britain but I could direct him to places a lot more scary…

  24. Matt. Says:

    17…Carmen

    Poor little Cordelia. :(

    Although it has been said that the photo opportunity was actually “staged”.
    And a, possibly much disliked, Civil Servant actually bit the bullet as it were. :)

  25. lone pigeon Says:

    IAIN DOWIE FOR QPR…

    morning Brandon me ol china x

  26. Carmen Says:

    Personally, I’m only alarmed when I find myself in streets where people ’scurry’ - if they walk normally then I don’t consider the area alarming!

  27. brandon flours Says:

    Ello lone the bone :-D xx

  28. Carmen Says:

    Morning Brandon.

    Blimey, did someone spike your cornflakes?

  29. brandon flours Says:

    Carmen

    :lol: No :lol: I am in a goooooooood moood!!!! :-D

  30. Matt. Says:

    29…brandon flours

    Let me guess why.

    You’ve solved the Enigma ??? :)

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