Jimmy Saville biopic

[Chris S]

The BBC are making a mini-series about the life of Jimmy Saville
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54542956
I wonder how his victims will feel about it?

 

[Beebo]

The BBC are making a mini-series about the life of Jimmy Saville
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54542956
I wonder how his victims will feel about it?

There have been loads of these sorts of things over the years.
The victims don’t seem to have a choice. There’s been Dennis Neilson, Fred West, Harold Shipman, Yorkshire ripper, Moors Murderers.
Unfortunately there is an appetite for these stories to be told.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I half wonder how honest the BBC will be about their role in tolerating his suspected crimes and turning a blind eye to his "eccentricity" in fancying 13 year old girls for so long. I expect they'll largely airbrush that.
(Not that key BBC figures were the only ones who just decided to look the other way of course).

 

[derrick]

The BBC are making a mini-series about the life of Jimmy Saville
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54542956
I wonder how his victims will feel about it?

The same way i feel about anyone posting about the arsole,

 

[Drago]

I hear that Keith Lemon is tipped to play the famous Carlton devotee.

 

[steveindenmark]

We should just not speak his name. Along with that cycling cheat.

 

[welsh dragon]

I bet that will go down well. Just what we want our license fee to be used for. I bet the BBC will get a lot of praise for a programme like that.

 

[Notafettler]

Many people were well aware, specially in the BBC. The police protection he had was also very helpful in him getting away with it.

 

[dan_bo]

We should just not speak his name. Along with that cycling cheat.

Eh? Sporting fraud and child abuse aren't the same thing. Have a word mate.

 

[snorri]

We should just not speak his name.

Agreed, but we should remember the spelling of his name was Savile, (that is Sa VILE) , and not Saville as in the thread title.

 

[Accy cyclist]

We should just not speak his name. Along with that cycling cheat.

Granted,Lance took a few Mickey Finns,but he wasn't into bribing the mortician to make himself scarce for half an hour.

 

[Drago]

Granted,Lance took a few Mickey Finns,but he wasn't into bribing the mortician to make himself scarce for half an hour.

Or maybe he was, and found a way to cheat the test that detects that...

 

[Cycleops]

The beeb do these biopics very well, the one about Thorpe was brilliant. I think we’re all amazed that he managed to get away with it for so long so anything that explores that will I’m sure be of interest to a great many people.

 

[DaveReading]

It would be an understatement to say that mistakes were made (not just by the BBC) during the Savile era.

I'd have thought anything that lessened the likelihood of the same mistakes being made again was to be commended.

 

[matticus]

Do war veterans with PTSD relish programs about conflicts (especially the ones they were in)?

Where do you draw the line in bringing up bad memories?