Well it's a very good series - looks great; has interest - the entire Schofield scandal was not a scandal at all and shouldn't have been one but we know the media. I've been in it for about 60 years. I understood it when it worked for Max Clifford. I'd have preferred NOT to have had to face trial, been wrongly convicted, go to prison. But nothing that mattered was affected. Virtually all my friends remained friends - many were great; family was great; old friends and lovers came out of the woodwork to support me. I got literally thousands of letters inside - 90% positive, kind, supportive.
Poor old Phil seems to have suffered very badly. But it doesn't stop the show being very good TV which is what it's for. Watching Al Fayed, Savile, Diddy, R Kelly, Michael Jackson - everyone suffer, as I predicted 23 years ago - the False Allegations Industry has exploded. Especially for Celebs or wealthy.

I don't like Schofield. Not because of the 'scandal' I couldn't care less. I just find him rather bland and sickly. Always have ever since the days of the broom cupboard. He has also relished in the downfall of other celebs, so a little bit of karma is sometimes deserved.

Far worse is how he treated his brother (and his comments on that in the series). I've never been a fan either. But that doesn't detract from the fact that it's a thoroughly well done series; good TV.

JK2006 wrote:
Far worse is how he treated his brother (and his comments on that in the series). I've never been a fan either. But that doesn't detract from the fact that it's a thoroughly well done series; good TV.



I dont know what the gaslighting crap about him turning his brother in was for.

In his own words, he previously described how when his brother first came to tell him he was sexually abusing a boy, Schofield simply told him to stop.

Any "shopping" of the brother was much further down the line.

Well spotted Honey and quite right.

Downing Street Cat wrote:
I don't like Schofield. Not because of the 'scandal' I couldn't care less. I just find him rather bland and sickly. Always have ever since the days of the broom cupboard. He has also relished in the downfall of other celebs, so a little bit of karma is sometimes deserved.

Schofield is a good example of that old cliche 'be careful how you treat people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down'. He definitely thought he was untouchable.

Has he got a new agent or something, anyone know? Last year he was tipped overboard by his long term lot quite rapidly wasn't he.

Agree with you about Schofield. That naff broom cupboard idea, that they copied from ITV at the time for me marked the beginning of the gradual and then steep decline of decent children's TV in the afternoons.

He needs to be grateful he survived 40 years in TV and was paid enormously well. His situation now is down to his own behaviour and nobody else.

Mark wrote:
Downing Street Cat wrote:
I don't like Schofield. Not because of the 'scandal' I couldn't care less. I just find him rather bland and sickly. Always have ever since the days of the broom cupboard. He has also relished in the downfall of other celebs, so a little bit of karma is sometimes deserved.

Schofield is a good example of that old cliche 'be careful how you treat people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down'. He definitely thought he was untouchable.

Has he got a new agent or something, anyone know? Last year he was tipped overboard by his long term lot quite rapidly wasn't he.

Agree with you about Schofield. That naff broom cupboard idea, that they copied from ITV at the time for me marked the beginning of the gradual and then steep decline of decent children's TV in the afternoons.

He needs to be grateful he survived 40 years in TV and was paid enormously well. His situation now is down to his own behaviour and nobody else.

His daughter manages him. I dont think it is going very well.

Viewing figures for this Castaway show have apparently been quite disappointing. A one of hour would be too much but they dragged it out over three nights of pure me, me, me, narcissism. Who needs the self pity bleating of a still well off man who lied to his wife for 27 years and fostered a totally fraudulent public perona for years on TV screens. Won't get fooled again.

Honey wrote:
Mark wrote:
Downing Street Cat wrote:
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He needs to be grateful he survived 40 years in TV and was paid enormously well. His situation now is down to his own behaviour and nobody else.

His daughter manages him. I dont think it is going very well.

I never liked him & thought he came across as an air head. But just because I didn't like him doesn't mean I wished bad things upon him and believe his treatment has been abominable.

I suppose he's lucky he has family to support him and made plenty of money over the years.

No more opening supermarkets etc.

hedda wrote:
Honey wrote:
Mark wrote:
Downing Street Cat wrote:
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He needs to be grateful he survived 40 years in TV and was paid enormously well. His situation now is down to his own behaviour and nobody else.

His daughter manages him. I dont think it is going very well.

I never liked him & thought he came across as an air head. But just because I didn't like him doesn't mean I wished bad things upon him and believe his treatment has been abominable.

I suppose he's lucky he has family to support him and made plenty of money over the years.

No more opening supermarkets etc.


I wish he had simply said he was sorry, terrible mistake blah blah, and then shut up about himself.
The interesting thing was someone coping on an island, not him him him.

Schofield may quietly feel fortunate he still has his liberty, unlike his brother. There's so much we still don't know and only one side of this story has been heard.

I watched part 1 and found it quite entertaining and funny in places. I was surprised to see that he was still wearing his wedding ring and was filmed eating a meal with his wife and daughters. I thought it was reported that he'd split from his wife.