New Documentary ‘The Greatest Showman’ to air on Channel 5

I'm watching it on plus 1. It's fucking shit.

Nice to see Peter Straker involved, but once again Steve Norman ruins everything he touches.

I guess its hard to make a new documentary at this point with anything new in it. Plus its aimed at the casual viewer rather than some of a rabid fans on here :D

How was it?

Similar in many ways to one of those unofficial DVD documentaries you can pick up for £1 in petrol stations.

It's not a bad documentary at all, it's got facts on key events. It's got Queen music throughout which makes a big difference in these unofficial and cheap documentaries. It's got most of the key events involved - it's a chronological documentary going from birth to today's legacy. And throughout, they've got 13 segments littered throughout the hour and a half where they would include a key moment (e.g. Freddie going to boarding school in India, Queen getting their big break with SSOR on TOTP and Queen's controversial concerts in Sun City). In fact, it's one of the best unofficial documentaries I've seen. It's quite interesting too because they had people that I've never seen or even heard before who were friends of Freddie's in the 1960s. Also, they had Ratty and Tim Staffell interviewed in there too. Also, they had interviews clips of Brian and Roger speaking... but taken from the Days of Our Lives documentary.

It was mostly chronological but there were some things moved about by three or four years (not to the same extent as the Queen biopic). I think the worst one they did was after AOBTD, they talked about the IWTBF video and how they lost America. They had mentioned how they were the biggest band on the planet for that moment and how they lost America with that video. And the thing which linked on from this item is how Queen conquered new audiences throughout the world and then they talked about playing South America for the first time. I know it's a wrong order but it does seem like Channel 5 have made it seem more positive by moving events, there's something positive after the negative. Which in reality there was, just not as quickly as in real life.

If you get the chance to watch it I would. It's mostly new people speaking but nearly everything said is correct (I don't think I saw anything which made me think for a moment that's false).

Also, if you want to find out who took photographs and who filmed/directed videos then watch the documentary because every time a media form appeared on screen, it stated thorough information about it.

Watching it now and it's typical Channel 5 RUBBISH. It oozes cheapnesss. It's just talking heads, stills and stock film clips of 60s swinging London. There's nothing in that you haven't seen or heard before. Even the Queen video clips they used are poorly upscaled to HD.
Don't bother requesting it as it's not worth sharing. In fact i'm going to delete it which i've never done before with a Queen TV recording.

Got it stored on my sky box and I will watch it when I can be arsed.

Thanks, Dairy King!

*Fairy King


Will play it at work

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]

Thanks, Dairy King!

*Fairy King


Will play it at work[/QUOTE]

You're welcome matt z...peepee...patsy...worldwar z...your name is not funny. :(

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