Steve Coogan has got Saville voice spot on.....I heard a clip on the radio this morning and thought it was him. Will give it a watch, but don't think it will be easy viewing. I can't stand Piers Morgan, but thought I would post this clip, talking to John Lydon aka, Johnny Rotten. The radio interview clip is from 1978.
Not at all mate, the subject needs some humour, it's horrific. It just shows how easily people are star struck. Even prison governors, hospital managers and the PM were taken in by him ... ... those who always thought he was a wrong 'un were shouted down as being miserable and carrying an unjust agenda.
I was a kid around his Jim'll fix it phase. Even as a child I didnt enjoy watching it because of him. In hindsight I think I picked up on the fact that his heart really wasnt in it. Like he didnt want to be there, fixing things for children was a burden. I found watching him uncomfortable. He was just creepy and his presenting skills were awkward, particularly for a kids show. He just wasnt a natural for kids tv. If he'd have turned up at my school I think I would have been scared of him, I certainly wouldnt have been at the front of the queue to greet him.
The Louis Theroux documentary on him is certainly an eye opener - it was at the time and even more so when you look back and we know what we know about him. Vile creature who should have been locked up years ago, the people who enabled him are just as guilty IMHO
I have watched the Netflix one, tough watching. Will probably watch this one at some point. Would rather a documentary on how he was never prosecuted when alive to be honest, but I suppose that is subject to all sorts of legal restrictions. When you look back so many people seemed to have known at one time or another. How he was never brought to justice when alive is a pretty sorry indictment I think.
Yep. There are several people still above the sod, some possibly still working at the un-touchable BBC, who knew all about him and did nothing, and to make it worse, made sure others did nothing too. Saville was a talentless, odious and evil man, and he prospered because of these people. I haven't seen this yet, but I doubt it will say much about the complicity of the BBC, and the cover ups afterwards.
The creepiest thing I can think of is that he spent five days with his mother’s dead body in an open casket when she died. Knowing what he was and the rumours of his activities in mortuaries it wouldn’t surprise me if he was using her body in some unspeakable way.
No mention of them shelving an investigation into him apparently. I've read the BBC have said that a different story! I haven't watched the netflix one yet. That and the Epstein one have both been on my I should maybe give it a go list but never in the mood to watch something of that nature!
I agree, it's not my preferred viewing tbh, it's appalling that people like this exist ... ... I watched this to see how Steve Coogan would tackle the role. He does well but it's a very uncomfortable watch tbh.
I still to this day believe that Clarkson, Hammond and May left the BBC because of all of the **** going on there. As for Coogan, takes some balls to play the most hated c**t to ever darken TV screens.
C**ts like that Evil bastard would've had blackmail on everyone around him, he was untouchable. People tried to speak out back then and were silenced. Brendan Fraser tried to warm everyone in Hollywood about Epsein and he was black marked. Came back 15 year later and won an Oscar.
It wasn't Epstein he was on about, it was Harvey Weinstein, but it's an understandable mistake. Both bastards of the highest order. Weinstein could ruin people's careers and lived with just a word, so loads of people were terrified of crossing him. Funnily enough the only one I ever saw who took the micky openly about it and called him out was Ricky Gervais, probably because he's British and his career didn't depend on Hollywood.
