The early evaluations are in and it’s not nice for Channel 9 on the primary night time of the Shane Warne miniseries.
The first of two elements aired on Sunday night time with the second set to observe on Monday night time however social media has savaged the opening episode.
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Starting with Warne getting dropped in 1999 within the West Indies earlier than returning to the start of his profession, it coated his devastation at getting delisted by St Kilda, getting chosen for Australia and dropped quickly after, the Ball of the Century and into the John the Bookmaker scandal.
It additionally coated his love life along with his spouse Simone Callahan and into the diuretic scandal which noticed Warne banned for a yr in 2003.
But whereas Warne is likely one of the most beloved and distinctive characters Australia has ever seen, followers couldn’t say the identical in regards to the sequence.
CODE Sports’ Lachlan McKirdy mentioned it was: “Real bad. Shocking script and just a lot of cringe.”
Former comms and company affairs at Cricket Australia Matt Cenin posted: “30 minutes of the #Warnie telemovie … atrocious. What an embarrassment.”
One social media person wrote: “This is really good if you take out the actors and script and just look at the archive footage.”
Warne died in March 2022 however six months after his loss of life shocked the world, Nine revealed it could make the miniseries simply six months later.
At the time, it was slammed by Warne’s daughter Brooke.
“Do any of you have any respect for Dad? Or his family? Who did so much for Channel 9, and now you want to dramatise his life and our family’s life six months after he has passed away? You are beyond disrespectful,” she wrote on Instagram on the time.
Brooke additionally confirmed the household had met with producers, whereas a Nine spokesperson mentioned the community and Screentime, the corporate producing the sequence, had collaborated with the household.
However, final week, Callahan, who was married to Warne between 1995 and 2005 savaged the present earlier than it had aired.
“I haven’t wanted to read into too much about it, but I think it’s a bit unkind and mean spirited to be honest,’’ Callahan told the Herald Sun.
“It’s my opinion. He’s just passed, let him rest in peace. And for the kids, I just believe that they’re not showing any compassion at all by putting this out there in such a short amount of time after this has happened.
“To be honest but that’s how I feel about it.”
The response hasn’t appeared to get any higher.
Source: www.news.com.au
