{"id":45318,"date":"2023-11-16T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T10:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-reckoning-bbc-boss-defends-jimmy-saville-drama\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T10:11:35","slug":"the-reckoning-bbc-boss-defends-jimmy-saville-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/entertainment\/the-reckoning-bbc-boss-defends-jimmy-saville-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reckoning: BBC boss defends Jimmy Saville drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Coogan portrays the disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile in a new BBC drama. (BBC) (BBC\/ITV Studios\/Matt Squire)The BBC has defended its decision to release a dramatisation of Jimmy Savile\u2019s life. The series, titled The Reckoning (streaming on iPlayer now), sees Steve Coogan play the disgraced presenter who was publicly revealed, after his death, to have been a serial abuser of children.The broadcaster has been criticised for \u201ccapitalising\u201d on the story despite the broadcaster being responsible for propelling Savile to fame with the TV shows Jim\u2019ll Fix It and Top of the Pops.Speaking after a screening of The Reckoning attended by Yahoo, Charlotte Moore, the Chief Content Officer at the BBC, defended the decision to commission the programme, which has been produced by ITV Studios.\u201cI&#8217;m afraid I think the subject matter of this series is something that we have to continue to talk about,\u201d she said.The crime&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/reckoning-bbc-defends-jimmy-saville-drama-071403726.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Coogan portrays the disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile in a new BBC drama. (BBC) (BBC\/ITV Studios\/Matt Squire)The BBC has defended its decision to release a dramatisation of Jimmy Savile\u2019s life. The series, titled The Reckoning (streaming on iPlayer now), sees Steve Coogan play the disgraced presenter who was publicly revealed, after his death, to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1082,"featured_media":45319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Reckoning: BBC boss defends Jimmy Saville drama - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-reckoning-bbc-boss-defends-jimmy-saville-drama\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Reckoning: BBC boss defends Jimmy Saville drama - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Steve Coogan portrays the disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile in a new BBC drama. 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