Fly on the wall? Pah! The wall is all the way over there! These days, viewers want to be flies buzzing right around the noses of the people making the headlines, close enough to tell what they had for breakfast. And thanks to true story TV dramas, they can.
It’s been a long time since ropey Lifetime Movies were as good as it got for true story TV. In recent years, British production companies have stepped up in a big way to serve a growing appetite for fact-based drama, but all too often the real-life TV dramas of today focus on haunting tales of history’s most gruesome murders. If you’re sick of serial killers, there are plenty of non-murder true stories to enjoy in drama form, from very public scandals to ordinary people doing extraordinary things, to the kinds of tragedies it’s important that we never forget.
It’s been a long time since ropey Lifetime Movies were as good as it got for true story TV. In recent years, British production companies have stepped up in a big way to serve a growing appetite for fact-based drama, but all too often the real-life TV dramas of today focus on haunting tales of history’s most gruesome murders. If you’re sick of serial killers, there are plenty of non-murder true stories to enjoy in drama form, from very public scandals to ordinary people doing extraordinary things, to the kinds of tragedies it’s important that we never forget.
- 8/12/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
“She’s always decked out in these ridiculously amazing furs — so decadent and sensual,” says “A Very British Scandal” costume designer Ian Fulcher about dressing Claire Foy for her role as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll. “It’s like you want to touch her. There’s something very sexual about that, and I love that. And Claire loved having that on her so that she felt more empowered and felt more sexual and sensual.” We talked to Fulcher as part of our “Meet the Experts” TV costume designers panel. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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“A Very British Scandal” — a followup to “A Very English Scandal,” which covered the seedy Thorpe affair — tells the story of a different legal battle: the ugly divorce between Margaret and her husband Ian Campbell, Duke of Argyll (played by Paul Bettany). The divorce was notorious for accusations of infidelity...
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“A Very British Scandal” — a followup to “A Very English Scandal,” which covered the seedy Thorpe affair — tells the story of a different legal battle: the ugly divorce between Margaret and her husband Ian Campbell, Duke of Argyll (played by Paul Bettany). The divorce was notorious for accusations of infidelity...
- 5/28/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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