ITV producer plans Jimmy Savile drama
AN ITV producer is considering what many insiders say is “impossible” – a drama about the life of Jimmy Savile.
Jeff Pope, best known for Appropriate Adult about Fred and Rose West, said he was thinking through the problem of filming Savile’s abuses at the BBC. However, an insider said: “It’s long been considered Savile is undo-able as a drama. Who would want to watch it?”
Appropriate Adult was a good example of finding a way into a story. There was no point getting into the minds of Fred and Rose, they are psychopaths
At the Edinburgh TV Festival Pope said: “Appropriate Adult was a good example of finding a way into a story. There was no point getting into the minds of Fred and Rose, they are psychopaths.
“Then I read about Janet Leech, the Appropriate Adult, and it started to dawn on me. If you like, she is ‘us’ in this, a social worker who sat in on the interviews. She suffered awfully afterwards.”