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Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in ‘sensitive’ BBC drama

Alan Partridge star will take on ‘complex’ character of notorious paedophile in The Reckoning

Steve Coogan will play Jimmy Savile in a forthcoming BBC drama series about how the high-profile presenter spent decades living a double life as one of the country’s most notorious paedophiles.

The Alan Partridge star said the decision to portray Savile on screen was not one he “took lightly” but the series has “an intelligent script tackling sensitively an horrific story which – however harrowing – needs to be told”.

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