Korp family fears telemovie trauma
Members of the family of Maria Korp have asked Channel Nine to withhold screening a telemovie in the State of Victoria until her 15 year old son turns 18.
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Members of the family of Maria Korp have asked Channel Nine to withhold screening a telemovie in the State of Victoria until her 15 year old son turns 18.
Maria and Joe Korp are both the subjects of Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story which airs this Sunday night on Nine. It depicts sordid and brutal scenes of murder, infidelity, sex and swingers as it follows a high-profile murder case.
Today Gust Korp, brother of Joe, today said 15-year-old Damian Korp was still struggling with the death of his mother and subsequent suicide of his father, Joe, in 2005.
“My major concern is for Damian. He’s a 15-year-old boy who has been through a fair bit, he has had quite an extensive period of counselling,” he told Radio 3AW.
“We’re just really worried what’s going to happen to this boy. At this stage it’s just too raw.
“It would have been nice if maybe they’d (Channel Nine) show it throughout the rest of Australia and maybe held off in Victoria until the boy is at least 18 or 19 years of age so that he can cope with it a bit better.”
Gust said one of Damian’s teachers had raised her concerns with Channel Nine, which had initially offered to pay for Damian to spend a weekend elsewhere when the telemovie was screened.
“But what’s sending the boy away for a weekend going to do? You come back on Monday after everyone’s watched it and where does it leave him?” Gust asked.
Laura De Gois, the daughter of Maria Korp will also make an appearance on A Current Affair tonight, but TV Tonight understands Tracy Grimshaw will seek to clarify the interview was secured separately from the scheduling of the telemovie.
Source:Â The Age
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Of course, going to 3AW to talk about his problems won’t cause Damien any problems at all.
I’ll repeat….. it takes months for a show to be made, and wouldve had to have had the permission off every party involved. Do i think the 15 year old should be protected…… yes. Of course. But the people protecting him should be the people chosen to protect him, the same people who signed off on this story months ago, and not a tv network looking for ratings.
Laura was one of my best friends in highschool we had a bit of a falling out since then, but her mother was a very nice christian lady who cared for her children alot.
I think you should respect her privacy and leave them alone. Money and Greed are getting in the way of the networks decision to be moral. How would you like it if you have been traumatised by 2 deaths in such a nature and the media go public without your permission.
surely there must be privacy laws to protect Laura and her brother. Leave them aloine it should not air!
It’s quite possible that the family did know about it, but didn’t expect it to be screened so soon. They don’t seem to mind the fact that it was made, just that it’s being screened not only very close to when it all happened, but the son is still only 15 and are obviously, and rightly so, worried about him. Perhaps they thought it might have taken longer, and would not be ready for screening for another few years? We don’t know what they knew or not. 🙂
How would you feel, if you were fifteen, still coping with your parents deaths and not only find out that the entire story (dirt and all) was going to be screening on a major television network, but also having to head to school the next day and face your friends and peers who would have more than likely watched it? It bringing it all to the forefront of your mind once more, but this time, having to deal with /everyone/ knowing about it, if not questioning, teasing and bullying you about it?
Yeah. Good going Channel 9. Way to show you care. ;p
@koverstreet: yet again you show yourself to be as callous and insensitive as the station of which you are such an obvious fanboi.
This sort of salacious sensationalist “drama” is bad enough as a category in itself, but when its story is about relatively recent traumatic events and innocent parties to those events live in the broadcast area, I think it steps over a line.
I think it would be good if guidelines regarding this type of thing were included in the Commercial TV Code of Practice, even tho’ it might be hard to actually put into practice and even harder to police.
Nine’s offer a weekend away was a cynical token gesture that would clearly do nothing to protect Damian Korp from the ensuing whirlwind of attention that will inevitably follow. I wouldn’t be surprised if Seven exacerbate the situation by running a follow-up story about how the broadcast affected him, complete with interviews with some of his fellow students.
I agree they should have said something a bit sooner it is daft complaining so soon to when it isgoing to be aired. It has been filmed and promoted now, so really it should go ahead.
Ummmm….. wouldnt the family have been well aware of the production a long time ago….. i think its a bit silly to ask of something well after its already shot. I mean….. it must have been a bit of a lengthy process to get it to the screen……. enough time to intervene i say.
That puts 9 in a really difficult position. That boy should avoid the movie – Nine will get top ratings.
I shudder and shake my head everytime i see the promos, so I cant imagine what it would be like for the 15 yro son. Feel so sorry for him. Hope he has a group of closely knit friends around him. He really shouldnt go through this.
nine just bottom feeders
I hope channel 9 shows a bit of diginity and doesn’t show it in Victoria or to be honest at all. That poor kid has been through a lot and the poor thing might not be able to cope.
Holding it off in just VIC is not going to help, just like the first UB people will find a way. I feel sorry for the family but I don’t think Nine will do it, maybe they shouldn’t have made it, I’m not likely to watch it anyway.
Nine is a bit insensitive for creating a tele-movie so soon after the event, I hope the right thing does happen, people before profits.
I’m sure that they didn’t turn on the tv and see a comercial and then they thought
“ohh this is about my family and the death of my mother…when did this happen?”
I’m sure they knew all about it before they even wrote the script and filmed it.
Seems a bit late to me to stop it being shown now.
They should have stopped it being made
It wouldn’t surprise me if someone did try to get an injunction to stop it going to air in Victoria.
@koverstreet: The boy has to go back to school the next day and the whole school will have seen the show and all the grisly details about it and he could cop all sorts of unwelcome attention from it. I think it would be quite traumatic for the boy who through no fault of his own got wrapped up in all this drama.
But this time there is no court injunction and Nine will air it as is their right.
The family won’t watch anyway whether it’s aired or not so what’s the difference?
Oh not again… First Underbelly, now this.
it would have been good if they hadn’t waited this long to say something (i’m assuning this is a recent development) they could have had the couresy to speak up before 9 started promoting the airdate. so it would have been easier to re or un-schedule.
but they definately do have a case. i wouldn’t want any 15yo’s i know going through something like this, what is it going to be like for him when he goes back to school on Monday.
Thats the problem with these real-life dramas. There is always someone who is going to be hit really, really hard by them.
In this case 5 years doesnt seem like a long time. At least with Underbelly there were a decade or two between events and the screening.
I don’t know what the answer is but if I was the son I would probably be traumitised by a movie being made about my parents shown to the entire country.