The new Martin Kemp drama!!

[EmmaTMG]

Whilst I am sitting here reading all other Mumsnet threads, my DH is watch the new Martin Kemp drama 'Serious and Organised' I heard a baby crying on the TV and turned around to see what was going on.
The poor baby was hysterical! whatever the story is her mother was waving a knife around in someone face who was doing the same back to her and baby. When I say hysterical I mean really bad. Did anyone else see it? I have always thought how un-necessary this sort of thing is on TV but this was totally over the top. The scene/camera shot stayed the same for ages with the baby screaming before the scene changed. It bought tears to my eyes, the poor little thing was terrified.
The child was about a year old so could have memories of this experience (possibly) who knows what the poor little thing was thinking whilst having a knife waved in it's face!
This type of thing make me sooooo angry I thought I'd have a quick rant on here to off load abit but it hasn't worked. AAAAHHHH I am so angry!

Hi Emma, I didn't see it but you have reminded me of when Martin Kemp, as Steve Owen, had the car chase thing with Phil Mitchell. They had baby Louise just sitting in her car seat which wasn't properly strapped into the car. That really made me mad when I saw that.

Perhaps its a Martin Kemp thing?!

I've read a little bit about the principle of scaring babies for TV dramas and soaps and apparently they are filmed in so many different bits and edited together that in fact the baby never sees the thing they are supposed to be crying about! I think there are strict rules on this, didn't see Serious and Organised unfortunately.

To digress, a forthcoming drama called Strange starring Samantha Janus was recently filmed two doors away from us. No children involved in the filming but they set off an explosion in the back garden ("oh, that was the thunderstorm" said the director) which scared the pants off my DS who'd just gone to bed.

I think I have read something similar to what you are talking about, Mandy. And after thinking about it I'm sure the baby would not have had I knife too close or maybe have even seen it but the scene/shot was one continual look through the camara's lens (I can't think how else to describe it) and the baby was just terrified.
I don't think I'm a party-pooper but it was just astounding. The babies mother must be very brave to have let this happen, I would have totally lost it, throwing people out of the way if it had of been my baby.
I hope this hasn't sounded rude but I can't get this poor baby out of my mind. My DH set the alarm for 5:45am this morning and apart from 'what's that bl**dy noise' that programme was the first thing that came into my head...hense why I am now up at 6:15 reading/adding stuff here.
Apologies if it sounded abit blunt about camera shot, I did't mean it too.

I too watched the programme, at the time i comented to my dh about this, i had head again that kids the bits are edited, but don't feel that this was the case last night, a baby can not act, and the baby was clearly destressed, and if that was my baby (even though i wouldn't allow it), i would have comforted my child and taken them home, no matter what they were being paid.

Saying that i do enjoy this programme, its far fetched, as if two brothers would be working together, but is still good fun. That might have something to do with Martin Kemp though, dodgy barnet or no dodgy barnet.

I also find it hard to believe any mother would consent to letting their baby or child get so distressed in the name of TV entertainment. I would have 'done my nut' if the producers had of caused that much distress to my baby.....but then I wouldn't put my children into the situation in the first place.

I strongly agree with you Emma. I hate seeing babies/young children in scenes like this. I have often felt this before, when watching scenes in Eastenders or Corrie, where someone in the scene is holding a baby and everyone is shouting and yelling at each other for one reason or another. The baby doesn't know they're acting and it must be very distressing for them.

What about last nights episode when the man help a gun to the babies head, it had something over its head, do you think they could have been using a dummy. It didn't look like it, but they can be clever editing.

I know i have mentioned it before, but does anyone else think Martin Kemps hair is funny,especially in those love scenes, i can imagine after the director yells 'cut' he says 'hair and make-up'.

Also i do not know why it was necessary to kill that man by pulling him apart by 2 cars (what kind of sick person thinks this stuff up). They could of just shot him.