Plot

The story of Jimmy Savile's life from his working-class roots, to his rise to TV stardom as a BBC presenter, and his later years when he managed to keep his reign of sexual abuse concealed until after his death in 2011.

A TV mini-series drama about the disgraced late TV personality Jimmy Savile. BBC One will tell the story of Savile's rise to fame, and the sexual abuse scandal that emerged after his death. This mini-series aims to respectfully give a voice to Savile's 500+ sexual abuse victims, while also helping us understand why a man like Jimmy Savile seemed to remain immune for so long to proper scrutiny and criminal investigation.—dlcnla