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BBC Drama Boss On Jimmy Savile Drama ‘The Reckoning’: “There Is Still A Public Interest”

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BBC drama director Piers Wenger has stressed the “public interest” in the network’s controversial Jimmy Savile project as he showcased eight upcoming shows that “don’t fit into the convention of genre.”Featuring Steve Coogan in the lead role, ITV Studios’ four-parter The Reckoning (working title) will air as the decade since Savile’s crimes were exposed shortly after his death approaches and Wenger told a Q&A with journalists on Monday that the show will go further than any documentary has on the subject.“Our primary intention is to give a voice to the victims and tell stories with the utmost respect,” said Wenger at an event showcasing eight dramas separate from The Reckoning.“Documentaries [on Savile] take you so far in showing the

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