it's shocking that this receives little or no complaints and yet "Jerry Springer: The Opera" receives the record for the most complaints ever for a Televised programme. It's a miracle that there wasn't some moral uproar after it was aired which says something for the times we live in. I won't make my own views of capital punishment a secret, I'm very much against it but even those who condone it have to confess that "The Execution of Gary Glitter" is blatantly biased, one sided right wing propaganda at it's worst, not to mention that the decision to choose Glitter as the focus of this mockumentary leaves a bitter taste in the mouth and for that matter is tasteless in the extreme. While we watch Gadd portrayed uncannily by the relatively unknown Hilton McCrae go through the whole legal hoopla, go through court and the subsequent moments after he is found guilty and awaits execution. We the viewer are subjected to a mixture of real and fake footage (which to the filmmakers credit is quite realistic looking and could be easily mistaken for the real thing), z list celebrities who range from Gary Bushell and Anne Widecombe who aren't shy about making their pro-capital punishment views known. #EXECUTION OF GARY GLITTER TRIAL#"The Execution of Gary Glitter" creates the conceit of offering the viewer an alternative version of Great Britain where the death penalty has been reintroduced and where upon his arrival back in the UK, Paul Gadd better known as former seventies rock idol Gary Glitter is arrested and then awaits to be put on trial where upon if he is found guilty of his notoriously evil crimes outside the UK he could face the death penalty. Capital punishment has always been a contentious subject and with this in mind Channel 4 produced one of the most contentious "mockumentaries" imaginable and arguably one that is a tad unsavoury.
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