Underbelly

Jeanie

Is anybody else pissed that we have to wait to see this here in Victoria?

I've been looking forward to it for ages and I realize the ramifications of it tainting the jury pool, but really, it's a dramatization anyway and it's not like all this gangland war business hasn't played out in the media the last few years anyway.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/judge-tightens-underbelly-ban/2008/02/15/1202760551561.html

Thoughts?






don't suppose anybody wants to record it for me?

Medicated-Genius

Yea I am a little annoyed about this. I don't watch very much TV and was pretty interested in having a look at this show. Pluh!

Jeanie

Medicated-Genius wrote:

Yea I am a little annoyed about this. I don't watch very much TV and was pretty interested in having a look at this show. Pluh!

I guess we'll get it here eventually but I find it a little ridiculous given all the media coverage, books and discussion about the case so far that a dramatization is going to make the difference to a fair trial.

Medicated-Genius

Jeanie wrote:

I guess we'll get it here eventually but I find it a little ridiculous given all the media coverage, books and discussion about the case so far that a dramatization is going to make the difference to a fair trial.

It does seem a bit over the top huh. I mean, even without a show like this, how in hell are they gonna guarantee an untainted jury. This stuff has been in the media for years! If they're gonna go all hollywood and restrict all sources of information about this from the jury, why can't it simply be extended to a tv show?

Jeanie

Medicated-Genius wrote:

It does seem a bit over the top huh. I mean, even without a show like this, how in hell are they gonna guarantee an untainted jury. This stuff has been in the media for years! If they're gonna go all hollywood and restrict all sources of information about this from the jury, why can't it simply be extended to a tv show?

What I don't understand is, why they can't bring forward the jury selection for that case and put them under a media ban? I mean not that it will make much of a difference. And lets face it, people are going to be getting it from other sources anyway.

Ledbetterus

thepiratebayDOTorg, if you must

Jeanie

Ledbetterus wrote:

thepiratebayDOTorg, if you must

ta! except I'm a low tech kinda gal. might just ask a favor of the interstate relos.

Jeanie

Come on you lot! There musta been one of you cockroaches or banana benders that watched it!!!

How was it?

Zoso

I watched the premiere on wed night and it was riveting. I couldn't turn my eyes from the tv for 2 hours... I have grown up watching ridiculous shows from australia like water rats etc. etc. but this is step above. I call it the Carlton Soprano's.. It's amazing to realise this is all based on true events. When the vic's finally get to see it watch it's totally worth it.

Jeanie

Zoso wrote:

I watched the premiere on wed night and it was riveting. I couldn't turn my eyes from the tv for 2 hours... I have grown up watching ridiculous shows from australia like water rats etc. etc. but this is step above. I call it the Carlton Soprano's.. It's amazing to realise this is all based on true events. When the vic's finally get to see it watch it's totally worth it.

Thanks Zoso.

It's had some amazing reviews but I can never tell from them if I'll like something or not. I don't suppose you can recall if it included the attempted whack on Alfonz Gangitano or not? And the two guys that were arrested at Brighton cemetary?

Jeanie

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/judges-to-rule-on-underbelly-ban/2008/03/03/1204402331548.html

pjfan31

i'm not bothered by it at all. I sit down on the lounge at 7.30 watch choopping block then comes 8.30 and underbelly is on. I don't even have to change the channel.

It is a cool show, I love it. It is quite raunchy, there is more flesh then sex and the city, more violence then a die hard movie, more swearing then some gangster rap and more drugs then a saturday night out with my mates.

I love it

catefrances

Jeanie wrote:

Is anybody else pissed that we have to wait to see this here in Victoria?

I've been looking forward to it for ages and I realize the ramifications of it tainting the jury pool, but really, it's a dramatization anyway and it's not like all this gangland war business hasn't played out in the media the last few years anyway.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/judge-tightens-underbelly-ban/2008/02/15/1202760551561.html

Thoughts?






don't suppose anybody wants to record it for me?

no hon im not pissed you have to wait.

we had a similiar situ when blue murder was made years ago. it couldnt be shown here in NSW for the longest time due to its content. thank goodness for family living interstate.

Zoso

Jeanie wrote:

Thanks Zoso.

It's had some amazing reviews but I can never tell from them if I'll like something or not. I don't suppose you can recall if it included the attempted whack on Alfonz Gangitano or not? And the two guys that were arrested at Brighton cemetary?

it included alfonz being shot by jason moran but not the attepted shooting part. Really into this show now it's a great watch.

Jeanie

catefrances wrote:

no hon im not pissed you have to wait.

we had a similiar situ when blue murder was made years ago. it couldnt be shown here in NSW for the longest time due to its content. thank goodness for family living interstate. : )

Yeah, you guys waited 6 years or something to see it? :eek:

Bugger that!

Just can't understand why I can buy the bloody book at K-Mart but I can't see the program on tele when the content is the same. :rolleyes:

Anyhoo hopefully soon enough we'll get it here.