The BBC’s Savile drama has become the TV show that must not fail

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Moments after sexually abusing a nine-year-old boy in 1976, Sir Jimmy Savile OBE told his victim the following: “Don’t you dare tell anyone. But as you’ll see, I trust the people involved and their track record, I think they’re currently doing the right things by the victims of Savile and I also hope and expect the BBC take this huge opportunity to redeem themselves and show us that the phrase “lessons have been learnt” isn’t just jargon. Even before Johnson started peddling his intriguing mix of far-left and far-right memes – that Starmer “spent his time prosecuting journalists” and that he didn’t “prosecute Jimmy Savile” – The Reckoning was already controversial. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free And though some might think it’s insulting for a “comic” to play this important part, I also think it’s spectacularly fitting – given that the only people telling the truth in public about Savile’s wretchedness during the Eighties and Nineties were people in the alternative comedy scene.