Des.. ITV David Tennant Drama...

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Who else is watching?? Hope its not too gory!!

We stopped smoking 3-4 years ago and we just hankered for a cigarette and a pint at the pub scenes them were the days

Another triumph for British TV drama.

Could do with some females in this Well he didn't kill women, he was a man, the man writing the book was well a man, the police officers in charge of the case were men. What would you suggest, get him to kill a few women, pretend the DCI was a woman or make the murderer a woman. Trouble is it would be fiction then so wouldn't actually be the same story.

@ifonerememberstoturnonthelight taping interviews only became standard in 1991.. he also wasn't read his rights because they didn't exist until the year after. I think it varied by force. I went on maternity leave in 1989 and didn't return so I can say quite definitely at the station where I worked taping was standard in 1989 and people were read their rights, wasn't the same word for word as now but I can remember the training courses to bring all officers up to date and those courses were being run in 1986 (again specific personal circumstances mean I know the year, I don't always have such a great memory.)

I don't think all the fags were real fags otherwise continuity would be impossible.
I'm not a DT fan but he was great in this.

They are stage fags.

It was a story about men doing things to other men. In its context, having few female characters was justified. Shoehorning in a "strong" female cop or even worse, a love interest would have distracted from the story.

If there had been, say, a female police officer or lawyer who played a major role in the real-life story and she had been omitted, that would be sexist.

Shoehorning in a "strong" female cop or even worse, a love interest would have distracted from the story.
I must say I'm sick to death of all forms of shoehorning in drama.

I really like the portrayal of the author.

Chanel Cresswell was in it im not sure if the characters partner was real or a dramatisation, but I don't think they needed to drop in female police officers or such if it wasn't true to events,

They showed some female officers digging up the garden etc. There really seemed no need to get a quota in, tbh

Wasn't Chanel Cresswell the journalist who appears in several scenes?

If the situation calls for it, it can be okay to have a mostly single-sex cast. For example, a drama about nuns in an enclosed order would feature very few men.

The film version of Trainspotting annoyed me immensely because all of the book's female characters were removed from the story, apart from Diane who only features briefly and Renton's ex who is more or less only mentioned.

I thought the trial a bit of a damp squib in the end. And they were lucky to get the verdict. Though that's probably as everything is so forensics based on tv police shows now.

"asn't Chanel Cresswell the journalist who appears in several scenes?

No she was the girlfriend of the man the couldn't charge Nilson with murder .

Anyone else watching the doc on ITV1 now?

Me. It's shocking. I haven't seen the footage of Nilsen before.

Yes I'm watching its unbelievable one person can do that, and the poor families left behind.

I thought DT and other actors did a really good job. I thought at the beginning that 3 episodes meant they were going dramatise the murders etc, so to keep it interesting just based on arrest and conviction /trial basis was good screenwriting. I read the book years ago, must go look if still have it.

MrsJayy oh I must sound so callous now. Obviously it was dreadful what he did and there is probably more we don't know about. I was only commenting on tv show.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners A former boss of mine used to work at the Kentish Town Job Centre and spoke of him bringing in curries for the Christmas party in a big pot! By coincidence, I ended up dealing with his case a few years later as part of my job. So the tv series is really bringing it all back for me. Have only managed to watch the first episode so far though. Will watch the rest on catch up. Neil Tennant has him down to a tee.

Yet another killer who was shopped repeatedly to police who did 0. How many more?

Ian Huntley was reported for over 100 rapes before the Soham murders.

[quote ifonerememberstoturnonthelight]@The80sweregreat taping interviews only became standard in 1991.. he also wasn't read his rights because they didn't exist until the year after. [/quote]
Well, no, the right to silence had been around for at least 100 years.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners A former boss of mine used to work at the Kentish Town Job Centre and spoke of him bringing in curries for the Christmas party in a big pot! By coincidence, I ended up dealing with his case a few years later as part of my job. So the tv series is really bringing it all back for me. Have only managed to watch the first episode so far though. Will watch the rest on catch up. Neil Tennant has him down to a tee.**

That would be David Tennant, wasn’t Neil Tennant in The Pet Shop Boys?...

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I've been looking forward to this. I don't rate David Tennant as an actor. He acts the same whoever he is portraying. Disappointed.

Seriously? Compare this with Dr Who, Staged, There She Goes, Duck Tales, Good Omens and tell me whether you seriously believe he acted identically in each and every one of those.

It was so well done

Poor Carl ☹️ He was so vulnerable