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The four-part BBC One series explores how Savile used his celebrity and his powerful connections to conceal his sexual abuse and exploit institutional failings. Ellie Harrison hears from those who made the show about their divisive bid to bring the story to the screen

Steve Coogan’s take on the serial sex offender is astonishingly spooky. But questions remain as to whether it should have been made – and whether the BBC has given itself too easy a ride

Steve Coogan inhabits the lank silver-haired, cigar chomping, bejewelled Savile, in a show that never manages to rise above the cheap lure of voyeurism

‘I do think that we hold the BBC to account,’ show’s team said after claims they were too soft on corporation

The Reckoning is a BBC1 drama that sees Steve Coogan play predatory DJ and presenter Jimmy Savile.

‘I think I would have picked up on it,’ actor said about longstanding rumours

‘I think I would have picked up on it,’ actor said about longstanding rumours

Born into extreme poverty, Grant was told as a child his mother had died. She had actually been placed in a psychiatric institution. It was the start of a life of repression and extraordinary reinvention

Salon talks to the comic and writer about his latest effort, a tribute to the woman who found Richard III's remains

Fact, fiction, and feeling collide and combine in Stephen Frears’ “The Lost King,” written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, an adaptation of the book “The Lost King: The Search for Richard III.” This unique and lively mystery based on a true story comes from the team behind the Oscar-nominated…

From recognising The Traitors as genuinely fresh television to honouring legends – and making Nadine Dorries look daft – here’s a deep dive into this year’s nominees