![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t see my preference for the British product as some kind of weird patriotism. British true crime tends to be about British killers – Ian Brady ( See No Evil), John Christie ( Rillington Place), the Wests ( Fred and Rose), Dennis Nilsen ( Des), Jeremy Bamber ( White House Farm), Harold Shipman ( Doctor Death) – while American true crime favours American atrocities. The crime is typically murder, usually serial, preferably home grown. The story has been shaped and tweaked the scene is drizzled with meticulous period detail there is a cliffhanger at the end of each episode. They are essentially factual – ‘based on real events’ – but they have the feel of fiction. W hen Crimewatch first aired on the BBC in the mid 1980s, its presenter Nick Ross promised: ‘This is about real-life crime, not the stuff of fiction.’ Nowadays the distinction is rather less clear, and our screens are filled with true crime dramas that seem to offer both. ![]()
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