What time Jimmy Savile BBC drama The Reckoning is on TV tonight
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA new BBC mini-series will tell the horrific story of sexual predator Jimmy Savile and his victims. The Reckoning, which will air on BBC1, stars Steve Coogan as disgraced DJ and entertainer Savile.
Savile, who was once a beloved TV personality, died in 2011. However, investigations following his death revealed that he had been a prolific sex offender, amassing hundreds of allegations of rape and sexual assault of children and adults over a number of decades.
The allegations were first revealed in an ITV documentary titled Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, which was broadcast a year after his death.
Since then it has emerged that Savile had committed a large number of sex crimes which had been covered up throughout his lifetime. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing viewers swoon as Gorka Marquez channels Ryan Gosling's Ken for opening number READ MORE: Read more of today's top stories from the Manchester Evening News The Reckoning, written by Neil McKay and made by ITV Studios for the BBC, will tell the story of a man who used his position as one of Britain's biggest stars to cause pain and misery to hundreds.
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