EXCLUSIVE: Sam Brown vividly recalls her visceral reaction to Steve Coogan ... and in full costume, Coogan was unmistakably the image of Jimmy Savile, the BBC presenter who repeatedly abused ...

Watching it, it feels like you are stepping out onto the fish-and-chips-scattered coast of Seventies Scarborough, where Savile had a home, or the gaudy set of Top of the Pops. And Coogan is pitch ...

He added: “I think it would have been wrong and untrue to not show it.” Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in ‘The Reckoning’ (BBC) Coogan went on: “Personally, my involvement – because I’ ...

Coogan said he considered himself one of a handful of people who could portray Savile A new TV drama sees actor Steve Coogan portray one of the most notorious paedophiles and sex offenders in ...

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Steve Coogan returns to our screens tonight to play disgraced presenter Jimmy Savile - a role he did "not take lightly. The Reckoning, on BBC One, will detail Savile's grotesque crimes.

A survivor of Jimmy Savile’s abuse has recalled seeing Steve Coogan in character for the first time. Coogan plays the disgraced TV star in a new four-part BBC drama titled The Reckoning ...

Steve Coogan has been praised for his portrayal of Jimmy Savile, after the first episode of BBC drama The Reckoning was shown on TV on Monday. The series depicts the life of the notorious ...

A new TV drama sees actor Steve Coogan portray one of the most notorious paedophiles and sex offenders in British criminal history: Jimmy Savile. The TV presenter and radio DJ, who died in 2011 ...

Steve Coogan has defended his controversial forthcoming series, in which he plays paedophile and disgraced TV personality Jimmy Savile. The four-part BBC drama, titled The Reckoning, will depict ...