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Have just been browsing the TV guide & noticed the following programme, yet another look at "normal" life in the Marbella area ????????

10pm Spanish time, Tuesday 12th January. ITV.

This is the write up:-

Piers Morgan sets out to discover the real Marbella - but does he find it to be the poor man's St Tropez or a place in the sun for multi-millionaires? He tours a villa belonging to a British knight - which rents out for 20,000 euros a day - and goes shopping with former Birmingham City Football Club MD Karren Brady for a 16,000 pound handbag. He also meets a couple who have been gassed in their own home by an eastern European gang and hears about shootings in broad daylight at a hairdressers.

Set your timer now !!!! Or not !!!

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No longer have UK telly, the streaming link I was using has gone :(

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the same peerless morgan who,while editor of the daily mirror,printed fake photographs of british soldiers (supposedly)torturing and abusing iraqui prisoners. thereby endangering our soldiers and gaining the contempt of the british people. oh, he got fired for it too. avoid.

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The same Piers pughe Morgan (he dropped the "Pughe" when he became a journalist) who was in the year below me at school and was a complete twit then too!!!




Jo xxx

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I think I'll set the timer to 'Shun'.

When there is wall to wall shite on TV, there is at least always the Spanish channels. At least there a crap programme is also a language lesson.

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Nice one Jo :thumbsup:

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Try some of these on your computer, Bil, at least you can pick and choose something reasonable to watch whilst improving your Spanish.
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/
http://www.misexta.tv/inicio Watch Salvados, El Follonero, I find him entertaining. The Apprentice, if you are into that.:)
http://www.radiotelevisionandalucia....pe/web/portada

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Actually, the 'family that got gassed by a East-European gang' are our very own Euesdens, who normally do the gassing in their peerless organ, the Euro Weakly.
They'll be blocking the aisles in Blighty, Mum.

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Oh no, that means we will never hear the end of it when certain people on here watch the true stories on the program.

Perhaps we need a few graphs on how much gas is needed to knock out people in a villa :rofl::rofl:

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I remember:
The Moscow theatre hostage crisis, Chechen rebels took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second Chechen War. The Russians pumped in this nerve gas which, um, unfortunately, killed about half the people there.
Pity they didn't know about the stuff these pesky East Europeans use.
I can imagine the scene. A rainy street blocked by men in cunning disguises. A fake cop turns the traffic away. A huge tanker, stolen that very morning from Vladivostock is parked by the family Ferrari as a thick orange tube is threaded through the lavatory window. A generator fires up. Curtains twitch. Several East Europeans in gassmasks shimmy down a rope hanging from a helicopter and in through a sky-light...
Luckily, it'll just give them a headache...

Just kidding. It must have been terrible.

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Yawn, you can rent my place out at €20,000 a day too. If you want, I'll even tell you I'm a knight as well (how would you know different?).
So far as a £16,000 handbag goes - someone should tell that woman about haggling?

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Isn't it strange that some people can slag off a program they haven't seen yet?

It you want a taster, he is doing a program about Las Vegas tonight at 22.20 on ITV1

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Thanks for that. We have been watching what's his name? I call him Señor bigote, or one and a half. I think his name is Juan y Medio.

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Well, you know how it is. We all make assumptions. I too am guilty of assuming that anything produced by a complete tw*t like PM will be complete sh*te.

Should he ever produce anything worth watching, it will be on the news, and I can catch it on the repeats.

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Don't know him, TBH. But have just been watching a few old programmes of Follonero in Melilla and another with Joan Laporta, presidente de Barcelona. Not a big fan of Spanish TV, but El Follonero creases me!:)

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right then,take a seat lenox,hope you don't mind the spotlight in your eyes. speak into the microphone-
WHERE WERE YOU ON THE NIGHT IN QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!! WE KNOW YOU WERE IN THE AREA, WE HAVE WITNESSES. CONFESS NOW AND FEEL A LOT BETTER FOR IT...

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I actually caught part of this programme on Las Vegas. It was quite interesting and informative - apparently the lake created by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado river is going down in depth each year. There's gloomy speculation that in 8 years time the water will be gone, and then it's goodbye Vegas. However that depends on current trends lasting - I remember times when Spain was entering drought and soon no-one would have access to water. There's also currently quite a lot of unemployment in Vegas (I think the figure was 15%) and they've been hit harder than most by falling property prices, although tbh I wouldn't be interested in property there unless I had business interests there. I imagine their economy will recover if/when the general US economy does.
Sly Stallone seemed quite witty and entertaining, though I admit that could have been selective editing.

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I've seen several of the programmes Piers does, and they are entertaining, he has done several face to face interviews, and does ask some awkward questions. He has done programmes on Dubai and Monaco as well..

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Anyone see it?
Has our reputation improved in the UK - or taken another hit?

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Must admit he's not compulsive viewing for me, but I did make a point of watching it and saw most of it. Much as I expected really, lots of false, botoxed wannabees! Predictable faces, Max Clifford, Linneker's brother, James Hewitt, and many I'd never heard of.

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Got it to watch later although it doesn't sound great and it's full of the usual misinformation and scaremongering (you know like the "recent" hairdressers shooting that took place in 2004!). Your friends made a great impression on my friends back in the UK ;)

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Yeah but €16000 for a handbag? :eek:

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Am pretty sure you could spend more than that if you wanted in most countries around the world

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We laughed all the way through it, utter tosh, but the trouble is some people (no names, but quite easy to guess who) will believe it.

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Fools and money are easily parted:rofl:

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It's all relative isn't it, some people would say spending 100€ on one is ridiculous when you could use a Mercadona carrier bag. If you've got the money to spend seems stupid not to spend it on things you might like, saves sticking it in the bank for the taxman/your children to get when you die

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Hardly a good advert for living in the sun - all the women looked permanently wrinkled, despite the expensive grooming.

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That's a bit vague, utter tosh. You're an expert seemingly on that area, and I most certainly aren't, so for us lesser mortals, could you list what was wrong with the programme. What were untruths, did the shootings never take place for example, was all the filming set up, specially arranged for the programme? I'm intrigued, I know they like to spice programmes up a bit, but what did they show that clearly never happens, what was out and out lies?

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My impression.

It seems the place is right for people who have made a few pounds but cannot afford to keep up with the people found in Monte Carlo etc etc.

Their spending cash looking the part and sure the property is expensive, but the equivalent size etc would be outside there budgets in more famous place's.

Lots of C lists people enjoying the attention.

Also proves money does not buy class.:rolleyes:

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It`s entirely up to you, you can listen to people that live in the area or you can listen to people that make films or books about it, believe what you want.
Name a country where an occasional drug war shooting doesn`t happen, the one mentioned happened six years ago, if you play with kaka then you may get kaka`d, but don`t worry you would never move to Spain and are safe in the UK.

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But we are not talking about other countries, we are specifically taking about a programme about Marbella. You think it was utter tosh, but you have failed to tell us why. Shouldn't be too difficult if it was that far off the mark, if it was all lies.
In another forum some of the comments included, from people in that area,

Perhaps they saw a different programme to you.

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The thing is, ITV wouldnt have set out to make a programme that is true to Marbella. It is about entertainment and getting people to watch. They only went to Marbella because British people have heard about it so it is a draw for the audience. They probably paid some of the Z-list "celebs" to be there while they were filming.

They could have made the same programme about Milton Keynes or Inverness if they wanted.

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Not sure why they wouldn't, but tell me what was untrue. According to you and the other guy, it was tosh, it was untrue. I don't know, but until you tell me what was lies, what was factually untrue about the programme, I'm not going to know. Having decided the programme was full of untruths, I just fail to see why you cannot enlighten me about the lies. All I got so far is that PM got the date of one of the shootings wrong. Big deal. I'm not saying the programme is factually correct, I don't know, it might well be a load of tosh, but so far nobody is giving us any facts. As I said, some thought the programme was not too bad, so what do you know that they don't?

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Actually saw this. Far too many people with too much money and not enough intelligence.

How does that woman wipe her arse with nails like that? I loved their attitude that corrupt mayors were fine as long as they could get rich off their actions.

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Google is my friend, so.

Within a few seconds I get this about the Costa Del crime.

From April 09.

"Three lawyers are suspected of laundering money for the Tambovskaya-Malshevskaya organisation

Three people allegedly linked to the Russian mafia have been arrested on the Costa del Sol, in another phase of Operación Troika led by National Court judge, Baltasar Garzón, which arrested 20 arrests people across the country last June".

This from June 09.

La Rupubblica claims there are links to the Camorra mafia.

An Italian newspaper has linked the expansion of the Costa del Sol with mafia clans from Naples.

‘La Repubblica’ claimed on Thursday that a large part of the building expansion seen along the Costa del Sol has come from companies with connection to the mafia in Naples, under the knowledge of local politicians in Spain.

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Beday:rofl:

The Japanese have them with warm are blowers to dry your rear region.

Money can buy anything.

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Like I said in the other post, it`s not difficult to guess who would believe it. :rofl:
There is no need to explain the truth, if you knew the area then you would understand most of it is media hype.
You must be really nieve if you believe the story writer on his ITV hired yacht. :rofl::rofl:

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Nieve? Snow?
Is that it? is that your best shot? You can prove what he said was rubbish, can you?? But even if we accept that one, that was about a minute or two of an hour long programme. But at least that's a start, anyone more gems like that? What about the other fifty odd minutes of the programme?

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I thought the programme was fine. It went a bit into the "underworld" which there is a bit of, it went a bit into the "Nouveau riche", a bit into the normal "hen/stag" night brigade and into the history of how Marbella came to be. I thought it was interesting! The scenery and the "feel" of Marbella was all there!

I expected it to come across as far more exaggerated and exciting than it did. So I thought it was ok!

Jo xx

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I started this thread when I saw the program advertised as I thought it may be of some interest to the people on this forum.

I worked in Marbella for about 4 years and to be honest it seemed like any other town in southern Spain, in the few years working there I never saw any crime like was spoken about on the program, yes it happened, like it happens in any large town, I think the point many are making is that the program focused on the crime and very rich, there are many "normal" people living in "normal" homes etc., in the Marbella area, also, the filming was around puerto banus, shame that they never filmed around the main streets of Marbella Town itself, or interviewed some of the residents and visitors to Marbella, guess that would not have made good TV.

Glad I watched it even if it was OTT, but guessed it would be