ITV has announced details of a new three-part factual drama based on the crimes of convicted murderer Malcolm Webster.
Reece Shearsmith and Sheridan Smith will star in The Widower, which has been co-written by award-winning factual drama screenwriter and filmmaker Jeff Pope (Mrs Biggs).
Pope also serves as executive producer of the series, with Paul Whittington (Mrs Biggs, Vera) as director.
The Widower takes place over a 13-year period, and follows Webster, who sets about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.
Sheridan Smith stars as first wife Claire Morris, who wed Webster in September 1993.
Jeff Pope, Head of Factual Drama, ITV Studios, said: "This is a quite extraordinary story, far more chilling than any fiction. Webster was a banal, almost benign face of evil.
"He was so clever at...
Reece Shearsmith and Sheridan Smith will star in The Widower, which has been co-written by award-winning factual drama screenwriter and filmmaker Jeff Pope (Mrs Biggs).
Pope also serves as executive producer of the series, with Paul Whittington (Mrs Biggs, Vera) as director.
The Widower takes place over a 13-year period, and follows Webster, who sets about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.
Sheridan Smith stars as first wife Claire Morris, who wed Webster in September 1993.
Jeff Pope, Head of Factual Drama, ITV Studios, said: "This is a quite extraordinary story, far more chilling than any fiction. Webster was a banal, almost benign face of evil.
"He was so clever at...
- 1/9/2014
- Digital Spy
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