The botched Operation Yewtree investigation, which sought to bring to light historic sex offences perpetrated by British celebrities in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, is set to be examined in a new Channel 4 documentary.
Singer Cliff Richard, radio DJ Paul Gambaccini and former “Pop Idol” judge Neil Fox were among those publicly accused of historic sex crimes during the operation, which launched 10 years ago. None of them were ever convicted of any crimes.
Richard went on to sue the BBC for invasion of privacy after the network broadcast a police raid of his home during the operation. He was awarded £210,000 in damages and over £2 million (2.4 million) in legal costs, although he said the sum didn’t cover the full cost of the legal bills he incurred in a bid to clear his name.
Curious Films (“Caroline Flack: Her Life & Death”) are producing the doc, which will...
Singer Cliff Richard, radio DJ Paul Gambaccini and former “Pop Idol” judge Neil Fox were among those publicly accused of historic sex crimes during the operation, which launched 10 years ago. None of them were ever convicted of any crimes.
Richard went on to sue the BBC for invasion of privacy after the network broadcast a police raid of his home during the operation. He was awarded £210,000 in damages and over £2 million (2.4 million) in legal costs, although he said the sum didn’t cover the full cost of the legal bills he incurred in a bid to clear his name.
Curious Films (“Caroline Flack: Her Life & Death”) are producing the doc, which will...
- 8/10/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Sir Cliff Richard and two other British entertainers accused but never convicted of sex crimes are to take part in a Channel 4 documentary marking a decade since Operation Yewtree.
National treasure Richard was famously accused by a man of sexual assault but Richard was never charged and went on to win £2M (2.4M) from a BBC settlement, after BBC News sent a helicopter to cover police raiding his Berkshire home.
He will contribute to Curious Films’ The Accused: National Treasures on Trial alongside Pop Idol judge Neil Fox and DJ Paul Gambaccini, all of whom were accused but never arrested.
Led by their personal stories and experiences of being investigated, while in the full glare of the national media, including video diaries recorded with Gambaccini and Fox at the time, the documentary explores the immediate and longer-lasting impact the process had on them, their families, careers and reputations.
It...
National treasure Richard was famously accused by a man of sexual assault but Richard was never charged and went on to win £2M (2.4M) from a BBC settlement, after BBC News sent a helicopter to cover police raiding his Berkshire home.
He will contribute to Curious Films’ The Accused: National Treasures on Trial alongside Pop Idol judge Neil Fox and DJ Paul Gambaccini, all of whom were accused but never arrested.
Led by their personal stories and experiences of being investigated, while in the full glare of the national media, including video diaries recorded with Gambaccini and Fox at the time, the documentary explores the immediate and longer-lasting impact the process had on them, their families, careers and reputations.
It...
- 8/10/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The full list of winners at the British Academy Television Craft Awards, held yesterday at the London Hilton on Park Lane, is as follows: Breakthrough Talent
Ed Hime - writer (Skins)
Matt Rudge - director/producer (The Autistic Me)
Jessie Versluys - director (The Hospital/Katie: My Beautiful Face) - Winner!
Ed Wardle - producer (Alone In The Wild) Costume Design
Joey Attawia - An Englishman In New York
Jenny Beavan - Cranford
James Keast - Desperate Romantics
Natalie Ward - Red Riding 1974 - Winner! Director: Factual
Patrick Forbes - The Force - Winner!
Annabel Gillings - How Earth Made Us (Water)
Nick Read - The Slumdog Children of Mumbai
Dan Reed - Terror In Mumbai (Dispatches) Director: Fiction
Yann Demange - Criminal Justice
James (more)...
Ed Hime - writer (Skins)
Matt Rudge - director/producer (The Autistic Me)
Jessie Versluys - director (The Hospital/Katie: My Beautiful Face) - Winner!
Ed Wardle - producer (Alone In The Wild) Costume Design
Joey Attawia - An Englishman In New York
Jenny Beavan - Cranford
James Keast - Desperate Romantics
Natalie Ward - Red Riding 1974 - Winner! Director: Factual
Patrick Forbes - The Force - Winner!
Annabel Gillings - How Earth Made Us (Water)
Nick Read - The Slumdog Children of Mumbai
Dan Reed - Terror In Mumbai (Dispatches) Director: Fiction
Yann Demange - Criminal Justice
James (more)...
- 5/24/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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