Sunday 15 October 2023

The Reckoning (2023 Neil MacKay)

We seem to be in a multiple car pile up of drama documentaries about unspeakable people, what with Dr Death, The Girl From Plainville, The Long Shadow and now this tribute to that popular hero, Jimmy Saville, played well by Steve Coogan (though you can't help hearing Alan Partridge).

With Robert Emms, Gemma Jones, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Fenella Woolgar (Thatcher), Mark Lewis Jones, Michael Jibson (Bill Cotten), Siobhan Finneran, Mark Stanley (biographer), Peter Wight. Jeff Pope is the exec producer.

Though broadcast by the BBC it was produced by ITV - speculate at will.

We all know though what a fiend and horror show Saville was and in that respect that programme could be have been more hard hitting. As it stands the testaments of former victims remain the strongest thing about it. Also the relationship with his mother, and cat-and-mouse games with biographer, aren't actually that interesting - the ending is actually dull. I suppose it's the way he manipulates and evades the BBC and journalists that remains the most interesting aspect.



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