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BBC releases first photo of Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in harrowing new series (www.independent.co.uk)

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BBC has unveiled the first official photograph of Steve Coogan in character as Jimmy Savile.

Coogan will play the disgraced TV star in a forthcoming four-part BBC drama titled The Reckoning, which will dramatise Savile’s history of paedophilia.

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[–] TexNox 6 points 1 year ago

Hrmmm, not sure I agree that this is a story that "needs to be told", or at least not in a dramatasised BBC 4-parter. This feels like an attempt to capitalise on the very real misory of a lot of people into a bafta nomination for such a powerful tv show and continues to build a cult of notoriarity around Saville.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just hope Coogan doesn't go full paedo.

[–] Emperor 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should never go full paedo, except when you are acting in the role of a massive paedo.

I know they go to great pains over how they've consulted widely on this but what he got up to was truly horrific and I don't know how you'd capture that outside of a horror movie. As Ed Gein inspired so many cinematic monsters, perhaps there's a slew of movies in the pipeline featuring tracksuit wearing corpse-bothering nonces as the monster.

[–] LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Well, when you gaze into the abyss…

[–] wewbull 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, I don't think the BBC are the ones who should be doing this. It comes across as a way to write the history of what went on in the form they want.

[–] SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was released on the iPlayer tonight. It doesn't pull any punches or paint the BBC in a defensive manner.

It's a brutal, tough watch but to be fair to Coogan, he is outstanding, totally nails it.