Discovery Show depicting Michael Jackson autopy receives complaints

Michael Jackson’s Discovery Channel upcoming TV special set to run in the UK and billed in the advertising as a reenactment of MJ’s autopsy is outraging fans, family and his estate. We have been reporting for quite some time that fans are rallying together to try to stop the airing of this special and now the estate is firing back as well.

John Branca and John McClain sent a letter to Discovery stating it was in “shockingly bad taste … motivated solely by your blind desire to exploit Michael’s death, while cynically attempting to dupe the public into believing this show will have serious medical value.”

The Co-Executors are particularly outraged by a print ad, depicting a corpse sprawled on a gurney, covered by a sheet with a sequined glove sticking out. Can’t say we blame them for their opinion as stating it was in bad taste seems an understatement.

The Discovery show is a succession of programs that re-enact a mock autopsy of Michael Jackson, using a synthetic cadaver and a doctor who will perfom the mock autopsy. Scheduled to hit UK screens and most of Europe, from January 13th through to the 16th. Advertised as a dramatic re-enactment of Michael’s autopsy, recently released promo grabs of the imagery Discovery plans to use are shocking many.

Fans are banning together to stop the airing by:

1. Sending emails, calls and letters to Discovery. Many are emailing or calling daily. Go to http://www.twitlonger.com/show/7p3i3h to find out how to get in touch.

2. Block Discovery from their Cable viewing selection – and make sure Discovery knows you have done so by calling your cable providers and requesting that the Discovery Channel be removed or blocked from their TV line-up, and also blocking Discovery by using the parental controls feature on their Cable or Dish set-up — and making sure Discovery know they have done this — fans can easily but effectively put their protest to Discovery — into action. The most important point is this: — by making that call to your cable provider and asking that a log be made of their request for the removal of the Discovery Channel from their package, and also informing your provider that you have blocked Discovery from their channel selection — you will send a loud and clear message to Discovery. Simply blocking Discovery does not send a digital or automatic signal to them. It is when fans actually call their cable providers, then call Discovery, and send an email to Discovery’s on-site complaints link — that Discovery are immediately alerted that there is a serious problem — and one that won’t go away.

Details on how to block and inform Discovery are at this link: http://t.co/GOXyhLN.

3. Help build a ‘Discovery Protest Package’ by sending an email to Discovery executives (you can simply cc all of them in one email) to mjj@innocent.com. You can do this simply by bcc’ing the mjj@innocent address so it is invisible to the Discovery executives you email. This group will then put together a physical packaged FedEx’ed to Discovery in early January 2011. The deadline for the FedEx package is December 31, 201.

Michael Jackson Chit Chat wants to hear what you think about this show.