This absorbing four-part series centred on the West Midlands Police concludes with an especially distressing case, as a 12-year-old girl reports having been groomed on social media and raped several times. The show must go on and, as ever, EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Doctors, Coronation Street and Emmerdale are up for the big prize. With usual host Phillip Schofield stepping down following his dramatic exit from This Morning, Jane McDonald has stepped in to spearhead events. The fitfully successful revival continues, with Val (Shauna Shim) pledging to get to the bottom of Shola’s (Chiamaka Ulebor) erratic conduct and Kelly Jo (Alicia Forde) enduring a difficult return to school after time out in the behavioural unit. While the documentary is careful to avoid explicit criticism of the police, the shortcomings of the investigation are plain enough, as is the tension and fear surrounding its reopening after advances in DNA. It does allow us to appreciate anew the performances of Philip Glenister and Steffan Rhodri as Paul Bethell and Phil Rees the real, retired coppers feature here, their determination as apparent as the demons still haunting them after decades searching for the killer of three teenage girls in Port Talbot in the 1970s. Often, as in the case of The Gold: the Inside Story, these are gripping in their own right, although Hunting a Serial Killer, airing the day after the conclusion of Steeltown Murders, is a fairly dogged, step-by-step account of the two investigations, embellished by compelling archive and a few clips from the drama. This sort of documentary has become a standard accompaniment to true-crime dramas these days a factual spelling out of what the previous days or weeks have been dramatising, with the broadcasters presumably keen to offer supporting evidence against accusations of carelessness or inaccuracy. ![]() Lupin III vs.Steeltown Murders: Hunting a Serial Killer. ![]()
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