Seven pulls Scientology doco
World exclusive investigation was due to screen online this week.
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Channel Seven has mysteriously dropped plans to screen a world exclusive investigation into the Church of Scientology.
Scientology: Black Ops by reporter Bryan Seymour had been due to start on 7news.com.au and 7plus on Tuesday, promising “wide-ranging and serious consequences” but The Guardian reports it was scrubbed on the same day -including all promo vision.
The 10 part series had originally been planned for last Thursday, July 9.
Scientology: Black Ops is a https://t.co/b3nAU20I54 world exclusive investigation.
This 10-part documentary series could have wide-ranging and serious consequences for the Church of Scientology.
Streaming July 9 on https://t.co/b3nAU20I54 and @7plus. #7NEWS https://t.co/KSxXhdnAWY— 7NEWS Australia (@7NewsAustralia) July 2, 2020
“7News adjusted the scheduling of the series of its own volition and due to legal concerns,” a spokesperson said.
US actress Leah Remini (King of Queens), who created the Emmy-award winning A&E series Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath and was interviewed for the series, also took to social media to question the move.
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I am late to the comments on this story, but this would have been heavily vetted by the Seven legal team from day one, since Scientology Corp threaten anyone and everyone legally and harass people day in and day out for whoever tries to go up against them. This would have been talked about in the first meeting before this show even got off the ground, so my feeling is something big has gone down. All those episodes as they were locked off would have been looked at by the Seven legal team as they were being churned out. And imagine the cost of putting the series together! The truth is, Scientology won’t take Seven to court, because then they would have to open their books, and all the things charged at them, and prove it’s not true. But if they threaten and harass loud enough they think people will stop investigating further. If Leah Remini can run a number of seasons on…
Very disappointing Seven pulled the series…. hopefully we get to see it soon.
Could there be a nexus between this and the death of Kelly Preston ?
No Scientology did not give Kelly Preston breast cancer, that is sillier than Dianetics. They however go after anyone to tried to report the truth about them.
well said Pertinax
No, that wasn’t what I was suggesting. Yeesh! Maybe 7 pulled it out of respect that Kelly has just passed away! I expect she would have featured in the doco.
As stated, Seven pulled it “due to legal concerns”.