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[tree_and_leaf]

Just seen the latests BBC teaser trailer: Is that really Anne Widecombe endorsing Harold Saxon? Eeep! (Could be viewed as a spoiler; also contains terrifying images of boy bands)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XZ0dNFYcjk

Really, I'm not sure which I find more worrying....

Comments

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I agree that the use of celebrities is embarassing and silly in general, but I think it's different if they're using politicians to play themselves in a political episode. I didn't mind Andrew Marr in season one, and I can't see that Ann Widdecombe will be particularly jarring either.

I wonder if Saxon is set up as a sort of British Pim Fortuyn?

That's kind of the impression that I'm getting. But it does seem odd that she would agree to endorse someone who is so obviously on the Wrong Side.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

it's different if they're using politicians to play themselves in a political episode. I didn't mind Andrew Marr in season one, and I can't see that Ann Widdecombe will be particularly jarring either.

I think we are on the same page, if perhaps on different paragraphs. Andrew Marr lent some credibility to a crude set-up.

It is odd that Ann Widdecombe is endorsing someone who will be set up to be evil - does she have a newspaper column anywhere, which would allow her to explain it?

[tree_and_leaf]

In a way, it makes me like her more.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

That's true here, really - she's come a long way from the black-clad new Catholic convert of a decade ago, about whom people speculated she had joined some sort of religious order. Doing Doctor Who makes her seem part of the world again.

I suspect that we've seen most, if not all, of the contributions of Ms Osbourne, McFly and Ms Widdecombe to the episode in the trailers.