The execution of Gary Glitter

[Perdita]

A controversial new TV drama will show Gary Glitter being hanged for sex crimes against children.

In real life the singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed in 1999 after downloading pornographic images of youngsters.

The 90-minute Channel 4 film is set in an imaginary Britain where the death penalty has been re-introduced.

It portrays a public backlash after a wave of child abuse cases.

And first to be tried under new capital punishment legislation is the 70s glam rock star.

Channel 4 say they have contacted Gadd to inform him of the film, The Execution of Gary Glitter, which will be shown on November 9.

Head of documentaries Hamish Mykura says: “High profile crimes against children often prompt calls for the death penalty. This drama confronts the public with what many say they want.”

To launch the drama, Channel 4 commissioned a survey in which 70% said the death penalty should be brought back for certain crimes.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/10/28/gary-glitter-tv-drama-shows-singer-being-hanged-for-sex-crimes-115875-21778252/

[Meh]

For a second there my hopes were raised

[sindydoll]

thats just silly...(not you norman i ment the programme!!)

[Perdita]

Gary Glitter is reportedly threatening to sue Channel 4 over the screening of a fictitious account of his life.

The Execution Of Gary Glitter, which airs tonight, will see the convicted paedophile hanged for his crimes.

According to The Mirror, Glitter's lawyers have said that the drama will unfairly put him back in the spotlight.

A source is quoted as saying: "Glitter complained he hadn't seen an advance copy of the film and it would unfairly raise his profile. There was widespread incredulity when his letter landed. There are no plans to shelve the show."

Channel 4 previously said that it had been in contact with Glitter about the film.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a185843/gary-glitter-to-sue-c4-over-hanging.html

[Perdita]

Media watchdog Ofcom has dismissed a complaint from Gary Glitter about a 2009 TV drama that imagined the glam rocker being executed for child rape.

Glitter - real name Paul Gadd - said Channel 4's The Execution of Gary Glitter had treated him unfairly.

Viewers might have concluded he had committed "terrible" crimes that had gone unpunished, he complained.

But Ofcom said it was clear the drama was fictional and Glitter had a well-known history of child sex offences.

In November 1999 the disgraced glam rocker was sentenced to four months in a UK prison for possessing images of child sex abuse.

In March 2006 he was convicted for the sexual abuse of two Vietnamese girls and served almost three years in prison in Vietnam.

In his complaint Glitter said he had never been prosecuted in Vietnam for child rape.

But Ofcom concluded that in view of Glitter's "well-known reputation in relation to child sex offences", there was "little scope for additional damage to his reputation".

The regulator noted that the drama did include real facts and said it might not have been clear where fact and fiction overlapped.

But it found the programme as a whole was clearly fictional, including the scenes where the charge of child rape was first raised.

Channel 4, it added, had signposted the fact the drama was set in a fictional Britain that had the death penalty in several ways.

The committee concluded that, as there was no unfairness to Glitter in the programme, the complaint of unfair treatment would not be upheld.


Just for once the right decision was made