| craigob11 11.11.2016 19:41 |
Just seen ad for a new Freddie Mercury docu-drama to be screened on UK CH5 on Nov 20th..not sure what time. I asked Jacky about this at the Convention & she said it was unofficial & they couldn't be using any music has they (Queen) hadn't been approached for a licence . So she was unsure if it would ever be aired. |
| cmsdrums 12.11.2016 03:41 |
Ch5 have done these type of 'docu-dramas' before on others (Whitney Houston being one) and they just create theirs own incidental music in the style of the original artist - not having the rights won't stop them making and showing their film. |
| . 12.11.2016 04:43 |
http://www.channel5.com/show/the-freddie-mercury-story-who-wants-to-live-forever |
| master marathon runner 12.11.2016 05:47 |
Oooh ! |
| Biggus Dickus 12.11.2016 10:02 |
This is going to be epicly bad. I look forward to it! |
| Pim Derks 12.11.2016 12:57 |
What the poster above says. Can't wait for this, this will be so awesome. |
| master marathon runner 13.11.2016 02:33 |
Trailer aired on Saturday night, with actual footage of Freddie AND Queens music. |
| stevelondon20 13.11.2016 02:47 |
9pm next Sunday. Let's just hope it's not shit. |
| Kuijpy 13.11.2016 06:41 |
I hope their will be spokan about the last videos, everyone knows already live aid and borhapstories.... |
| Ale_Pisa 13.11.2016 07:15 |
Have you seen the trailer of this docu-drama? I never find it on the official bbc's youtube channel... |
| john bodega 13.11.2016 11:19 |
if his acting is like his singing, then it will be utter pants! |
| master marathon runner 13.11.2016 11:25 |
It ain't BBC, channel 5 I think. |
| Chinwonder2 13.11.2016 11:32 |
Yeah, saw an advert for it saying Channel 5. Will someone be recording it interlaced? :) -Chin |
| Costa86 14.11.2016 06:00 |
This is gonna be great. I'm so excited. I'm going to invite all my friends over and buy lots of finger food from Iceland and a few pints of Carlsberg so we can all watch it together. This will be a life-changing experience. |
| cmsdrums 14.11.2016 10:03 |
Costa86 wrote: This is gonna be great. I'm so excited. I'm going to invite all my friends over and buy lots of finger food from Iceland and a few pints of Carlsberg so we can all watch it together. This will be a life-changing experience.Eating lots of food from Iceland and drinking something as horrible as Carlsberg might well be a life changing experience......!! |
| Barry Durex 14.11.2016 13:21 |
Probably. |
| AlbaNo1 14.11.2016 15:27 |
The best |
| Doga 14.11.2016 22:40 |
Wait, what? Food from Iceland is bad?? |
| Costa86 15.11.2016 03:05 |
Haha! |
| hachiman 15.11.2016 17:59 |
Here's the trailer on John Blunt's fb page. https://www.facebook.com/blunt.fanpageintheworld/videos/1875381352677984/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE |
| matt z 15.11.2016 20:14 |
I appreciate the effort but the channel 5 page says "not yet available in your region" bummer. I totally get the desire to see something corny on a "lifetime" (do THEY have lifetime channel in the UK?) style budget hopefully it'll be ported over onto bbc */palladia/vh1(however unlikely) |
| hachiman 16.11.2016 11:57 |
It's on YT now, try that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-vbVn0vjU |
| Ivo-1976 16.11.2016 15:40 |
This looks pretty awful. They even use a "fake freddie" to put in fictional scenes, so it seems. |
| The Fairy King 17.11.2016 02:27 |
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| The Fairy King 17.11.2016 02:29 |
Here you can see a summary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw |
| NickGreen 20.11.2016 15:19 |
It's a bit meh.. |
| Another Roger (re) 20.11.2016 15:28 |
The Fairy King wrote: Here you can see a summary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDwHehe. Good one. ;) |
| Costa86 21.11.2016 17:08 |
Currently watching this on 5 On Demand. A lot of this documentary centres around Freddie's illness - so much so that's it's over the top. They even dramatise Freddie having his KS lesion sampled for biopsy... in very bad taste. A very depressing look at the last years of Freddie's life, and really unnecessary. Not really a "Freddie Mercury Story" so much as a "Freddie's HIV Story". Supposedly Freddie knew Rock Hudson, and met him. I'd never heard this before - wonder if it's true. Nothing to substantiate it that I know of. Another useless tidbit - Paul Prenter, according to Reinhold Mack, gave "something" to Freddie during his 39th birthday party in Munich, just before he was filmed blowing the candles out on his cake, and whatever he gave him (poppers says Mack) temporarily blinded him (poppers don't do that AFAIK) and Prenter had to hold him up as he blew out the candles (you can see this in the Living On My Own video, where Prenter hold Freddie by the arm as he blows the candles). Every other word Freddie says in this documentary is "darling". All in all, the acting is bad. The worst is Roger Taylor, who is portrayed as a sort of superficial, dumb, mindless twerp. The biggest croc-of-shit moment in the re-enactments was when Freddie told Mary, Jim and Phoebe, all seated around a table, that he had AIDS, to which Mary responded "oh God, Freddie, you poor thing". Yes, because Freddie would place Mary knowing the truth on the same level as Phoebe knowing, and he'd tell them all at the same time - what rubbish. When they can't even get the basics right, then it's clear the documentary is a joke. |
| beemack74 21.11.2016 20:02 |
Phoebe does say in his book that he doubts that Freddie and Rock Hudson ever met. He says that given how Freddie loved to tell of any celebrities he had met, even once, they would have heard about it. I also noticed in this rather grim programme that Freddie is diagnosed as HIV positive in Autumn 1986,then informed that he has full blown AIDS around easter 1987. I had read about the '87 diagnosis in Huttons book, amongst other publications. First time I'd ever heard of this late' 86 HIV result... where did they get this information? Not that it really matters now, but there's a danger of scripted/dramatised events in Freddies life becoming "facts" in the future. Programmes like this are the television equivalent of photoshopped pictures. In years to come, how will they know what is actually real or not? |
| Costa86 22.11.2016 02:26 |
beemack74 wrote: Phoebe does say in his book that he doubts that Freddie and Rock Hudson ever met. He says that given how Freddie loved to tell of any celebrities he had met, even once, they would have heard about it. I also noticed in this rather grim programme that Freddie is diagnosed as HIV positive in Autumn 1986,then informed that he has full blown AIDS around easter 1987. I had read about the '87 diagnosis in Huttons book, amongst other publications. First time I'd ever heard of this late' 86 HIV result... where did they get this information? Not that it really matters now, but there's a danger of scripted/dramatised events in Freddies life becoming "facts" in the future. Programmes like this are the television equivalent of photoshopped pictures. In years to come, how will they know what is actually real or not?I think all that matters from a Queen fan's point of view is that Mary said he knew during the Magic Tour that he was infected, but still put on all those good shows, knowing fully well that he had so little time. |
| NickGreen 22.11.2016 07:42 |
i'm sure FM himself would be delighted with it..next up the autopsy of FM hosted by Rylan Clark! with celebrity guest psychic Derek Acorah. This is where we going with this stuff. |
| NickGreen 26.11.2016 06:17 |
I dont think Brian liked it much --- I’ve had lots of comments about the dreadful quality of the recently-aired Channel 5 low budget ‘docu-drama' about Freddie. It seems to be getting the same reaction on line … Well, just don’t blame us, folks. We got wind of this project about 6 months ago, and asked them (nicely) to bin it. So did Freddie’s family. But Channel 5 were determined to go ahead. Shame on Channel 5. The cads even used my song title ! Not cool. However the general feeling seems to be that this unwelcome little effort is already dying a quick natural death. So - onwards. Freddie (and his dear Mum) will rise above it all … |
| craigob11 29.11.2016 11:55 |
...a quick one...it show's Freddie smoking in bed in the early seventies when he didnt take this up till many years later. |