Shannon Matthews kidnapping to be made into TV drama by Bafta award winning team

candyfloss wrote:Shannon Matthews kidnapping to be made into TV drama by Bafta award winning team
THE kidnapping of Shannon Matthews - which was planned by her mother in a plot to make thousands of pounds - will be made into a TV drama by a Bafta award winning team.


http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/455677/Shannon-Matthews-kidnapping-to-be-made-into-TV-drama-by-Bafta-award-winning-team

ultimaThule wrote:That role could be a huge break for a newcomer, bobbin.  

I'm thinking voice coach and Philomena.  Money spent on enabling the lassie from Ullapool to acquire a Midlands accent can be saved on her having no need of the services of a make-up department.   

For the interior shots of Shannon's home, I'm visualising a 'muriel' of Hilda Ogden fame on the living room wall.  Perhaps an opportunity to showcase Mr Phil's snuff swamp art?

It's my belief Mrs Tony Rickwood will bring her own innate insenstiivity to the role and make it uniquely her own.

PeterMac wrote:Carter-Ruck will be sharpening their quills as we speak.
How can this NOT parallel another case ?
I can't wait !

By Paul Stokes 8:07PM GMT 04 Dec 2008
Matthews hoped her wicked scheme would generate an outpouring of generosity and reward money which she and her accomplice Michael Donovan could pocket for themselves.
People claiming to be members of Shannon's family approached representatives of the McCann fund asking for a share of the £1 million which had at that time been raised to help in the search for Madeleine.
And as Matthews and Donovan were convicted of kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice, the man who led the 24-day search for Shannon said he was in no doubt about the link to the Madeleine case.
Det Supt Andy Brennan, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "Madeleine McCann gave them the idea - the fund money. Clearly the McCann case was still in everybody's mind. Karen Matthews is pure evil. It's difficult to understand what type of mother would subject her own daughter to such a wicked and evil crime."
Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann, said: "It's beyond belief anyone could have sought to exploit poor Madeleine's plight in this way." Apart from the McCanns, of course.

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PeterMac wrote:Carter-Ruck will be sharpening their quills as we speak.
How can this NOT parallel another case ?
I can't wait !

It didn't just parallel another case, it was inspired by another case: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3549830/Shannon-Matthews-kidnap-inspired-by-donations-to-Madeleine-McCann-fund.html

I don't care how much this upsets the McCanns or vilifies Karen Matthews but poor Shannon doesn't deserve this.

PeterMac wrote:

By Paul Stokes 8:07PM GMT 04 Dec 2008
Matthews hoped her wicked scheme would generate an outpouring of generosity and reward money which she and her accomplice Michael Donovan could pocket for themselves.
People claiming to be members of Shannon's family approached representatives of the McCann fund asking for a share of the £1 million which had at that time been raised to help in the search for Madeleine.
And as Matthews and Donovan were convicted of kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice, the man who led the 24-day search for Shannon said he was in no doubt about the link to the Madeleine case.
Det Supt Andy Brennan, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "Madeleine McCann gave them the idea - the fund money. Clearly the McCann case was still in everybody's mind. Karen Matthews is pure evil. It's difficult to understand what type of mother would subject her own daughter to such a wicked and evil crime."
Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann, said: "It's beyond belief anyone could have sought to exploit poor Madeleine's plight in this way."   Apart from the McCanns, of course.

ultimaThule wrote:That role could be a huge break for a newcomer, bobbin.  

I'm thinking voice coach and Philomena.  Money spent on enabling the lassie from Ullapool to acquire a Midlands accent can be saved on her having no need of the services of a make-up department.   

For the interior shots of Shannon's home, I'm visualising a 'muriel' of Hilda Ogden fame on the living room wall.  Perhaps an opportunity to showcase Mr Phil's snuff swamp art?

It's my belief Mrs Tony Rickwood will bring her own innate insenstiivity to the role and make it uniquely her own.

ultimaThule wrote:A piece of straw is all it takes t'speak broad Yorkshire, Nina? 

Shall we form an orderly queue to save this production money on a voice coach for Philomena?  < goes to fetch haystack >

Dee Coy wrote:Baggsy segs.

Straw? It's trying to mither with a patty in yer gob while booling yer tansad down the tenny that meks yer speak 'ull.

Not chowwing at yer, mind. Nithering tonight, mafting inneer though. Ahm laid out like a shilling dinner.

ultimaThule wrote:Here's a sneak preview of the script:

Karen:  "Ee bah gum ah'm reet skint mithered baht our Shannon, put ya brass in yon pail for t'search."

As these words do not greatly differ from those used by Phil in relation to her niece, I very much doubt she'll have any difficulty learning her lines and, if she does, she can improvise by drawing on her personal experience of appealing to the gullible public. 

All that remains is to negotiate a fee.  In return for Phil's instant stardom. clan McCann can stump up £4 million or so to be distributed among those pensioners, schoolchildren, and others who so generously gave to the lifestyle fund and we won't make any charge for the straw.  Furthermore, by way of a bonus, we'll take Mr Phil to a swamp of his choice and draw pictures of him struggling to extricate himself from its fetid embrace.

Sorted  

Dee Coy wrote:Baggsy segs.

Straw? It's trying to mither with a patty in yer gob while booling yer tansad down the tenny that meks yer speak 'ull.

Not chowwing at yer, mind. Nithering tonight, mafting inneer though. Ahm laid out like a shilling dinner.