Presented by Jimmy Savile BBC series ‘The Reckoning’ with Steve Coogan

Steve Coogan takes on one of the UK’s most controversial figures of the 20th century.

Despite the announcement of Coogan’s casting in BBC drama series The Reckoning, a true crime drama about Jimmy Savile, the network has confirmed that the series will continue in 2023. The movie “The Reckoning” was announced in 2020. filming will take place in 2021.

“We are currently in post-production to be able to broadcast later this year,” said a BBC spokesperson. The independent. “We will announce the exact date in time.”

A source previously said The day that the network would shelve the series due to a “violent backlash” from Savile’s victims. Savile was the host of ‘Top of the Pops’. His decades-long practice of pedophilia, which was connected to his work with children and young people, came to light in 2012, a year after his death at the age of 84.

THE A network of survivors In November 2021, the organization issued a statement entitled “Our trauma is not your entertainment” and called the upcoming series “deeply inappropriate and harmful”.

“The exposure of Jimmy Savile’s crimes in 2012 has resulted in people flocking to our services for support,” it said. “It’s something we don’t take lightly and we hope the BBC won’t either.”

“The Reckoning” was produced by ITV Studios for the BBC and is linked to Netflix’s “Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story” documentaries. Netflix described Savile as one of the UK’s most loved TV personalities. Shortly after his death in 2011, an inquest launched more than 450 allegations of horrific sexual abuse and abuse involving victims as young as five years old. Through extensive archival footage, the documentary examines Jimmy’s inherent evil and delves into how he was able to deceive an entire nation for four decades.

Netflix’s true crime series 2022 has come under fire for dramatizing the reign of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” starred Evan Peters as the titular killer; Peters won a Golden Globe for his role, while families of Dahmer’s victims criticized the show for inaccurate and insensitive portrayals. “Monster” creator Ryan Murphy responded to the backlash, stating, “Something we talked about a lot while making it was that we weren’t so much interested in Jeffrey Dahmer the person, but what made him the monster, who he became. It’s really about white privilege. It’s about systemic racism. It’s about homophobia.”

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