Madeleine McCann: Gerry McCann’s Documentary
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
Gerry McCann has returned to Portugal. Now read on…
Sunday Mirror: “Madeleine McCann’s dad to relive kidnap”
For our entertainment?
MADELEINE McCann’s dad Gerry was last night back at the spot where she vanished two years ago - to film a reconstruction of the mystery. He hopes to spur a fresh wave of interest in the hunt for the tot, who would be six next month.
But heartbroken mum Kate will not be in the Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary.
A TV special. A film. A prequel. A book. A made-for-TV film. A soap. A multi-media experience. Madeleine McCann: The FBI, Maddy’s New Look And The Maddie Movie.
She cannot face returning to Praia da Luz, the Portuguese Algarve resort where Maddie disappeared on May 3, 2007.
Best leave her alone, then. Madeleine McCann: Every Directors Worst Nightmare.
Dad-of-three Gerry, 40, flew to Portugal on Friday. He looked distraught as he let himself into the apartment where the family was staying. Then he retraced the steps to the tapas bar where he was dining with friends when his daughter vanished.
Welcome back, Gerry!
Some locals in the resort shouted: “Go home. What are you doing here, Gerry? Leave us alone.”
What locals? Were they ex-pats? And what did they shout it? As ever, no investigatiosn. Just watching the parents.
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said of the film:” The objective is to jog someone’s memory and get that critical bit of information that will help find Madeleine.”
Was it you? So who plays Our Maddie?
Tea?
Maddie will be played by a McCann family friend in the film, made by independent production company Mentorn Media. Actors will play Kate, witnesses in the case and hotel staff.
Showing?
It is hoped the film will be broadcast across Europe on May 7.
Daily Mirror: “The McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “There are new elements in it that may generate that important piece of information that could lead to Madeleine being found.
Gerry will stop at nothing to find Madeleine or at least discover what happened to her in that flat, no matter how difficult and painful it is.”
Daily Mail: “Gerry McCann returns to Portugal apartment where Madeleine vanished to film TV reconstruction”
Mr McCann arrived in the country on Friday with 15 actors and a television crew to shoot the Crimewatch-style film of the events surrounding the toddler’s disappearance. The reconstruction, set up by the family’s team of private investigators, will be screened on Channel Four on May 7, five days before Madeleine’s fifth birthday.
Madeleine McCann was born on May 12 2003. Such are the facts.
Statements from Portuguese police files will be read out over the top of scenes showing how witnesses claim the night unfolded, including shots of a mysterious man Ms Tanner says she saw walking away from the McCanns’ apartment block.
Mr McCann, Ms Tanner and Mr Oldfield are acting as advisers to the production…
Gerry McCann - what of him?
Dressed casually in a turquoise T-shirt, brown trousers and trainers, Mr McCann let himself into the apartment…
But the visit provoked the anger of some locals, who have criticised a fresh poster appeal in the area. One woman shouted in Portuguese: ‘Go Home, leave Praia da Luz.’
Daily Express: “GREEK POLICE TO REOPEN HUNT FOR LONG LOST BEN”
NEW dossiers could provide vital clues in the case of blond toddler Ben Needham who disappeared on the Greek island of Kos nearly 18 years ago.
Despite numerous sightings , the fate of the toddler has remained a mystery but his mother Kerry has never given up hope of finding him and with the help of Euro MEP Edward McMillan-Scott she has compiled the file of new information being studied by the authorities.
Mr McMillan-Scott, who has campaigned on behalf of Gerry and Kate McCann for a European-wide missing child alert, says the new information is “compelling”.
Missing children - do they ever change?
Posted: 5th, April 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (17) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 8th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Lola - you can rad the news anywhere; but you won’t get it unfiltered. Ther is no agenda here other than to show how the media treats a story. Anorak readers have spawned two sites of theri own - one even took all the email contacts - illegally - and created a mirror image of this site. Perhaps it’s flattering to be copied? You can speculate on those sites about a missing child. But what we are after are facts - and so far only two facts has been established beyond all doubt: Madeleine McCann is missing; no one is a suspect.
April 8th, 2009 at 5:56 am
I remember when I came to this sight to read a debate on the recent news. Now I go elsewhere…
April 7th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Karen Says:
April 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Why is Kate too distressed to participate? Other mothers of missing kids are also distressed but will do anything to help!
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Same old bollox as usual.
April 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Why is Kate too distressed to participate? Other mothers of missing kids are also distressed but will do anything to help!
Karen
Maybe everyone is different. Kate McCann is innocent. The eyes should be on finding out what happened to the child…
April 6th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Wait and see? What for? Watching Supercop solving the case he’s botched?
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April 6th, 2009 at 8:55 am
What a charade
April 6th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Jo, very cruel of you to say those last four words! One always ends up returning to where their child was lost or last seen. In the last all most two years she has not been found elsewhere, now they are ‘driven’ to start again from where she was lost with hope and a prayer that just maybe …
18 years, Jo, Ben Needham’s Mother has not given up hope, and she won’t, Jo, until she gets closure one way or the other. The McCanns and all those many thousands of other parents whose children are missing will keep searching for their life time, if necessary.
April 5th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
The McCanns are innocent. They are looking for their daughter. The media sensationalised a single thread story. And a child is missing. I hope she found alive and well - only a lunatic would not. All we do is watch a morbid and hideous entertainment…
April 5th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Hi! Cheryl
Some cases wait 18 years….and a very recent one was Ben Needham.I agree the cases are rather different.Time becomes irrelevant really.AH! and before I forgot….the guilty always returns
April 5th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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What a laugh! The PJ are closely watching, Im sure they are and what are they going to do about it!
April 5th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Wait and see
April 5th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Good morning, Jo, so you are still ‘touting wait and see’ - how long now?
April 5th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I agree totally with you, Mr. Eggman - ’shit’ has spewed out of many ‘holier than thou art’ mouths on many internet sites for all most two years now. It is so easy for many to judge someone’s actions or lack thereof when one hasn’t truly walked in their shoes. The police found no evidence to charge them and the only so-called ‘hard’ evidence that the public found to charge them with was manufactured in their minds and touted as bible and many believed and added their own chapters as the bible was spread across internet sites. They don’t need the public to condemn them and wish them a life of hell, they will punish themselves and live in their own personal hell for the rest of the lives for their irresponsible act of neglect which cost them a child.
April 5th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Dr Eggy
Why didnt they do a LEGAL reconstruction WITH the PJ? because it was NOT going to be aired AND they wouldnt cash anything?
Thats right: good luck to them…the PJ is CLOSELY watching
April 5th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Despite all the shit that goes round on the Internet, I still believe that the McCanns are still just two parents desperate to get their daughter back. Until I see EVIDENCE to the contrary, this is what I will continue to believe.
Good luck to them.
April 5th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Hasn’t it always ‘their’ version of events ?
April 5th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Frist
Why refuse last time, when they were asked by PJ? They thought it would be a waste of time so why the sudden change of mind?
Is it because they will be directing this one and staging their own version of events?