Madeleine McCann: Rob Blackhurst’s Maddy Theme Holiday, BBC Apologises And If Cars Could Talk
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
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.
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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.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:35 am
WhEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
May 9th, 2008 at 9:35 am
First!
May 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am
The car should observe its vow of silence.
Omerta rules, OK?
May 9th, 2008 at 9:37 am
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chenier
Hey you!!! I was here first!
May 9th, 2008 at 9:37 am
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jo Says:
May 9th, 2008 at 9:35 am
First!
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Sadly not, twas moi…
May 9th, 2008 at 9:38 am
To whom the mccanns could apologize?
Is the list too long?
May 9th, 2008 at 9:41 am
The Maddy theme holiday is upon us…
May 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Chenier
I had a very vivid dream
I dreamt the PJ knew where ans how Ms body was,where it was put and transported
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
May 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am
7th
May 9th, 2008 at 9:43 am
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…
May 9th, 2008 at 9:44 am
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Anorak Says:
May 9th, 2008 at 9:41 am
The Maddy theme holiday is upon us…
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And in the New Satesman, to boot…
May 9th, 2008 at 9:46 am
“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
May 9th, 2008 at 9:49 am
666th…… hmmmmph.
Hey ho….another no-news day…
May 9th, 2008 at 9:49 am
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’
:blush:
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Good morning.
LOL.
It was me, i confess.
I said it here a couple of times “you can kiss my lily white irish arse”
May 9th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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’
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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.
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
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.
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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.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:59 am
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
May 9th, 2008 at 10:01 am
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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
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good morning jo.
Wonder who was in those buggys?
Looks like they’d suffocate in that heat.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:01 am
18…irish girl spain
Apology not required.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:03 am
♫ ♫
Good mornin’, good mornin’!
♫ ♫
Sunbeams will soon smile through,
Good mornin’, good mornin’, to you,
And you, and you, and you!
May 9th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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……….
May 9th, 2008 at 10:04 am
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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.
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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.
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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…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:05 am
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.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:05 am
IAIN DOWIE FOR QPR…
morning Brandon me ol china x
May 9th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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!
May 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Ello lone the bone
xx
May 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Morning Brandon.
Blimey, did someone spike your cornflakes?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Carmen
May 9th, 2008 at 10:12 am
29…brandon flours
Let me guess why.
You’ve solved the Enigma ???