Accused - McGovern/BBC dramas

[scenario8]

No prizes for predicting a big fat ugly anti-BBC campaign from the usual suspects over this weeks drama.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11805...

No doubt there'll be plenty disgusted by proxy, I imagine many of whom won't have taken the opportunity to watch the programme.

Anyway, McGovern really does know how to write and direct good drama. I enjoyed the The Street series (although these sorts of dramas are dangerously close to being Left wing for PH) and the first episode of this years effort (Accused) was intersting, too.

Let the baying begin.

[j4ckos mate]

yes, the last one was good its filmed locally to me,

we like spotting where it was filmed

[Rach*]

I'm just watching last weeks on btvision, I'm hooked, hurry up 9!

[erdnase]

I caught last weeks episode by accident - loved it! Looking forward to this weeks

[AngryApples]

Good grief, I'm far more convinced by Mackenzie Crook's performance than I thought I would be, this is looking good (I haven't seen the previous weeks)

[Rach*]

Blimey, harsh stuff

[anonymous-user]

I can see why the Army weren't impressed.
I'm not too.

[AngryApples]

Ouch, thats bloody nasty - all a bit too FMJ for my liking

[Rach*]

I was 9 years in the Forces, just chatting to a friend and praying to God that this is far from the truth

[AngryApples]

Hmm

think they might just be overstepping the mark here, fiction or not?

[AngryApples]

OMFG

[Rach*]

I need another gin

[anonymous-user]

Rach* said:

I was 9 years in the Forces, just chatting to a friend and praying to God that this is far from the truth

I suspect blokes on the front line just don't have time/inclination for the kind of crap being depicted.
30 years ago in a drizzly barracks in Aldershot, maybe.

[mcelliott]

Very sobering.

[audidoody]

Amazing to think that he left the army to become a pen-pusher in a paper merchant's office in Slough.

[AngryApples]

Good grief

Should've seen that coming, but didn't!

[theironduke]

I know it's not real...

Surely he would be tried in a military court for mudering Gareth?

[AngryApples]

I was under the impression for that grade of offence its Civil first, then Court Martial?

(so conceivably he comes out of 25 years then gets re tried for the same crime?)

ETA: fkwit spelling

Edited by AngryApples on Monday 22 November 22:37

[Rach*]

theironduke said:

I know it's not real...

Surely he would be tried in a military court for mudering Gareth?

I think when it becomes a crown court issue the military dont deal with it and hand over to civil law

[CivicMan]

Makes one think that maybe the Deepcut barracks "suicides" as they were "depressed" have more to them.