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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: The Reckoning; Frasier; Lessons in Chemistry; Scars: Surviving a Stabbing – review

Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile, dressed in a shell suit and sitting in a chair, in The Reckoning.
‘A dead-eyed bogeyman’: Steve Coogan in The Reckoning. Photograph: Matt Squire/BBC/ITV Studios

The Reckoning (BBC One) | iPlayer
Frasier | Paramount+
Lessons in Chemistry | AppleTV+
Scars: Surviving a Stabbing (BBC Three) | iPlayer

Watching Steve Coogan portray Jimmy Savile in BBC One drama The Reckoning, I find myself trying to remember: was Savile that gruesomely obvious at the time? I’d say he probably was. A tracksuited, cigar-chomping, arm-kissing shapeshifter with Halloween-wig hair. A primetime predator lounging like a dark king in his Jim’ll Fix It chair.

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