It's set to be a spooktacular Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday night as the remaining contestants get ready for Halloween week.
09.10.2023 - 13:35 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A new BBC mini-series will tell the horrific story of sexual predator Jimmy Savile and his victims. The Reckoning, which will air on BBC1, stars Steve Coogan as disgraced DJ and entertainer Savile.
Savile, who was once a beloved TV personality, died in 2011. However, investigations following his death revealed that he had been a prolific sex offender, amassing hundreds of allegations of rape and sexual assault of children and adults over a number of decades.
The allegations were first revealed in an ITV documentary titled Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, which was broadcast a year after his death.
Since then it has emerged that Savile had committed a large number of sex crimes which had been covered up throughout his lifetime.
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The Reckoning, written by Neil McKay and made by ITV Studios for the BBC, will tell the story of a man who used his position as one of Britain's biggest stars to cause pain and misery to hundreds.
Broadcast in four parts, it follows his early years in the dance halls of Manchester and northern England through to his later career with the BBC.
It will explore how Savile was able to use his connections and celebrity status, including exploiting institutional failings, to commit and conceal his crimes.
Each episode is also bookended by interviews with four of Savile’s victims, whose assaults have been dramatised in the series.
Before filming had already started the series received criticism due to its subject matter with Pragya Argawal in the The Independent writing in 2021 that the BBC are 'once
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Steve Coogan meeting Jimmy Savile for the first time – check it out below.Coogan plays the disgraced presenter in BBC series The Reckoning, which follows Savile’s upbringing, career and history of sexual abuse over decades.Following the show’s release last week, footage of Coogan meeting Savile from 1988 on The James Whale Radio Show was unearthed from the archives on Talk TV.In the clip, Coogan does an impression of Savile opposite him. “That was turning the clock back to when I was first on the radio, my first week in showbiz with a very young Cliff Richard,” Savile replies.
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