Wagatha Christie (CH4 Drama)

[cuprabob]

2 part drama on tonight and tomorrow night at 9pm based on the trial.

I think it might be quite funny.

[CorradoTDI]

I have to say I'm tempted to watch it after hearing bits when the trial was going on...

I still think it's nuts though that one, something like that went to a high court trial and two, they are now making a TV drama about it!

[Punctilio]

It was was Vardy who sued her accuser, and lost, shades of old butch Oscar Wilde who took someone to court for calling him a homosexualite, and lost.


It's as good a use for a court as anything else I suppose, trebles all round for the barristers and lawyers.

[jules_s]

Do we have a Facepalm smilie?

[CorradoTDI]

Punctilio said:

It was was Vardy who sued her accuser, and lost, shades of old butch Oscar Wilde who took someone to court for calling him a homosexualite, and lost.


It's as good a use for a court as anything else I suppose, trebles all round for the barristers and lawyers.

..and watching so far I can see why!

'she better not c*nt me off' is my new favourite phrase... deffo using that over the xmas period :-)

[Randy Winkman]

Disappointing for me. Just dull. I thought I'd watch it out of sheer curiosity but I didn't get anything out of it. I'm surprised Michael Sheen was involved but I guess it pays the bills.

[tim0409]

I got around 10 mins in then gave up.

I particularly hate this new device programme makers use of showing messages on the screen complete with annoying alert just so we know it’s a text message.

[Randy Winkman]

I wonder if they've either deliberately or inadvertently hit on the fact that people like me faff around on-line while watching TV and need a noise to prompt them to lookup and see things that are written and not said? I'm ashamed to say I gave up watching a serious documentary about Haiti the other day when I realised it was going to be mostly subtitles. That means I'd have to actually look at the screen properly for flip's sake!

[cuprabob]

Randy Winkman said:

I'm surprised Michael Sheen was involved but I guess it pays the bills.

I noticed he was also one of the producers. I watched the last part straight after but on the whole it was a bit disappointing, although funny in places.

[rdjohn]

I had not paid much attention to the trial reporting so I found it enjoyable. Its clear that if this script was proposed as a piece of fictional drama, the writer would have been thrown out.

My favourite line was, (the phone is) “in Davy Jones’s locker” and the reply from Vardy “ Who is Davy Jones?” He is obviously not yet on Instagram.

Its cost the Vardy’s £4million, so even the parting comment along the lines of - no such thing as bad publicity, has cost them dearly. Its hard not to believe that her lawyers were not screaming Nooooo, to her, it certainly could not have been a no-win, no-fee case.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Are we still calling it Wagatha Christie? I thought that had been replaced by Scousetrap.

[Halmyre]

CorradoTDI said:

I have to say I'm tempted to watch it after hearing bits when the trial was going on...

I still think it's nuts though that one, something like that went to a high court trial and two, they are now making a TV drama about it!

Depressing I think is the word you're looking for.

[jules_s]

The bloke playing Rooney must deserve an Oscar surely?

[hidetheelephants]

Vacuous narcissists arguing over which is most stupid, it appeared to be a dead heat; not sure who the audience for this is supposed to be, it might have worked as a comedy but the trailer made it look about as much fun as a colonoscopy without anesthesia.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

hidetheelephants said:

Vacuous narcissists arguing over which is most stupid, it appeared to be a dead heat;

Maybe you should watch in order to educate yourself. Only one of the two wanted this argument in court, and only one of the two was ever going to win. Not sure how you could conclude it appeared to be a dead heat???