Dont watch Channel 4 afternoon light entertainment show "COUNTDOWN" any more. Host Richard Whiteley gave support to a miserable programme on C5 last night which victimised petty offenders of the most trivial kind.
Entitled Donal Macintyre's "Big Sting", the show purported to be a response to the endless crime wave we keep hearing about,( but which in most part is an invention of shows like this).
Using the TV personality of Richard Whiteley to add authenticity, the program consisted of an elaborate entrapment, where petty absconders from local magistate justice were falsely invited onto a hoax gameshow, only to be arrested as soon as they stepped into the studio.
Today The Times newspaper branded the show as " a TV stunt", "cynical", "net benefit: Zero". [T2 review]
Donal Macintyre we know already, but why did Mr Whiteley endorse this pointless exercise ? Isnt he aware that much of his core audience for "Countdown" will resent the way he participated in victimising the most pathetic of the unemployed working class ?
Still, its ratings that count, so count down HIS ratings. Switch off "Countdown".
Using the TV personality of Richard Whiteley to add authenticity, the program consisted of an elaborate entrapment, where petty absconders from local magistate justice were falsely invited onto a hoax gameshow, only to be arrested as soon as they stepped into the studio.
Today The Times newspaper branded the show as " a TV stunt", "cynical", "net benefit: Zero". [T2 review]
Donal Macintyre we know already, but why did Mr Whiteley endorse this pointless exercise ? Isnt he aware that much of his core audience for "Countdown" will resent the way he participated in victimising the most pathetic of the unemployed working class ?
Still, its ratings that count, so count down HIS ratings. Switch off "Countdown".
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Owed to Richard
01.04.2004 14:22
with his gameshow and bad jokes,
with purile puns and rotten rhymes;
now richard pulls a hoax
Entrapment is an ugly word;
much better to say "sting",
and if the sharks prove just too big,
catching minnnows is the thing.
forget those rudish letters,
like balls and fart and arse,
for now there is a bigger dick
to bash the working class
the dark one
I'd like to thank Richard for assisting M'AM Members 3 years ago
06.04.2004 17:10
I'd like to thank him for his assistance in the escape of several Movement against the Monarchy members from the press and police photographers after their little protest against Charles and his slut Camilla at the Embankment reception they attended.
One of our favourite mamsters went up to Richard saying Hello, then went on to say that photographers had paid him to speak to him so they could get pictures of Whiteley accosting young men with money for sex.
Richard obviously attacked the media people allowing all the MAM crew ample time to escape.
Cheers Richard.
PS Countdown is still shit and your a wanker.
A MAMster
Richard whiteley
14.09.2004 23:17
I met him once at a conference and he was a complete pervert. kept going on about weightlifting and how musclebound he was, proceeded to flex his pecs up and down under his shirt and asked if I wanted to put hand on one of them NO THANKS. had no idea he was musclebound though, just assumed it was fat.
Lana
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I heard he is a muscleman too
05.03.2005 12:37
Who would of known he is a bodybuilder after all.
Paul
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hey Paul
16.07.2006 16:01
emerald
Hey Emerald
06.08.2007 19:40
no confirmation but my source is reliable and when I asked her she said yes! he was into bodybuilding of some sort and was a musclebound man.
I always wondddred myself as he would just fill up the screen he was so broad. In older footage he was very skinny, but from the late 80's onwards you could see his body getting bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger.
He did ahve a massive chest and enormous back with a very large neck. So I suppose you can only get a body that large and clearly he was a very strong man, from pumping iron.
Paul