Viewers of the BBC’s controversial Jimmy Savile drama The Reckoning have praised Steve Coogan’s “skin-crawling” depiction of the late paedophile.
Savile, who rose to fame as a presenter on shows such as Top of the Pops, was exposed as one of Britain’s worst sex offenders one year after his death in 2011, when it was revealed that he had sexually abused hundreds of women and children for decades.
