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The Mafia with Trevor McDonald
JordyD
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Anyone else looking forward to this? I wonder if he'll join them for a day?:D
Trevor's documentary travel shows are always good.
Trevor's documentary travel shows are always good.
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That's the image I had in my head when I read the thread title.
I also have the image of him berating someone for failing to pay their protection money, in headline form, with one of his goons hitting the guy every time he says 'Bong'.
Maybe just the ITV branch of the Mafia?
I saw his hidden Caribbean, well I think I suffered 2 episodes and it was cack, I wasn't the only FM who didn't rate it either, suffered a bit of his Mississippi one that was cack too.
I'm tempted by this, but if I do watch it, it'll be despite Trevor's involvement.
Mind you I was always suspicious of the news if Trev was reading it.
Trev takes "wooden" to a new level.
Maybe he's only just escaped their clutches.
He was snatched instead by the Gay Mafia.
They didn't hurt him, they just criticised his dress sense and gave him tips on his interior design.
Plenty of good Mafia docs out there, this however will not be one of them , it will be more like teletubbies meets McDonuts.
Off topic but if you want to see a good British real life crime movie then check out The Wee Man about the gangsters in Glasgow during the eighties/nineties.
There certainly is plenty. I went to the infamous Corleone about 8 years ago and asked a local what there was to do in the town and without a hint of irony he said if I hung around for a couple of days I could appear in one. Sure enough as we where leaving Rick Stein turned up to watch how ice creams made.
Not a fan of Trevor either, doesn't seem the ideal person to do an expose on crime does he, Politics, news or even travel shows fine but hes no Ross Kemp.
Will watch despite Trevor McDonald.
Poor old Trev seems to have about as many facial expressions as an Easter Island head.
Checked my post about his Caribbean doc, still thinks he's a Journo, rather than a presenter?
Biggest problem with his other doc's I mentioned was the subjects covered, there was buggerall insight, utter $hite IMO.
IIRC Other FM's mentioned that for a Caribbean doc it was surprising how there didn't seem to be any Black people involved/interviewed.
The Wee Man is rubbish, apologia for a scumbag like Ferris, and not much of a film to boot.
Dozens and dozens and dozens of British gangster films far superior, recent and classic.
Yeah!
I made this comparison some time ago.
It was just like "Dixon of Dock Green."
In that old police drama, towards the end of his long participation, Jack Warner who played Sgt. Dixon, was wheeled in to stand on the police station steps at the beginning of the programme to say little more than "'evenin' all," then disappeared, until the last couple of minutes of the drama drama, to stand in the same position and say, "Mind how you go!"
I guess at that time, he wasn't a well man.
Oh, I remember that, couldn't really work it out.
Maybe ITV thought we'd visualise Trevor in the office like a Newspaper editor barking orders and sending reporters hither and thither to chase up the scoops and hitting those deadlines.
Probably bowled in from the RAC club did his piece to camera and went back to his club for his afternoon nap.
Poor bloke seems to be getting a toeing now.
😜😃 crap name but a corking movie though.