Steve Coogan to play paedophile Jimmy Savile in new BBC drama
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Steve Coogan will play paedophile TV presenter Jimmy Savile in a new BBC One drama titled The Reckoning. “Neil McKay has written an intelligent script tackling sensitively a horrific story which, however harrowing, needs to be told.” Director Sandra Goldbacher said: “The Reckoning is a unique opportunity to give Savile’s survivors, the people who inspired this project, a voice. “I feel sure that Steve Coogan’s powerful performance as Savile will create a debate around how the cult of celebrity cloaked him from scrutiny.” Jimmy Savile on the roof of Broadcasting House in London to celebrate the BBC Radio station’s fifth anniversary, 30 September 1972 McKay has developed a reputation for tackling difficult subjects, including in his Fred and Rose West drama Appropriate Adult; a mini-series about the Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late Seventies, and the two-part drama See No Evil, about Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.
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The family, friends and BBC execs who looked the other way to Jimmy Savile's sickening crimes: New Steve Coogan drama The Reckoning points to people who turned a blind eye to Top of the Pops presenter
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