How do TV crime dramas get it right?

This Is Why

Sky News

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.0 • 552 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

From The Wire to Line of Duty, how police go about catching bad guys has always made compelling TV, but does it matter if the drama reflects reality. As the final episode of the hit TV show Happy Valley airs, how realistic is the show’s portrayal of small-town policing, and crime, in the UK?
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to a serving police inspector, Liz Cokayne-Delves, who thinks the show is the most accurate on TV, and barrister and former police officer Jeanette Ashmole, who advised the show, about why it matters TV writers get things right.

Producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden;
Editor: Philly Beaumont

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1:00.5	It's one of the biggest UK TV dramas in years, critically acclaimed, in fact, the past two
1:06.8	series have won BAFTAs, both for the show and its leading actor, Sarah Lancashire,
1:12.1	who plays Sergeant Catherine Caywood.
1:14.6	Catherine, you got to go wrong else to Alice, like you?
1:16.8	No, that would be unethical.
1:18.4	What they may be in pretense or so, spectre?
1:21.7	Most of you will have already realised I am clearly talking about Happy Valley, which has now
1:26.2	sadly come to an end.
1:28.1	Don't worry yourself about any spoilers if you haven't watched the last episode.
1:31.7	We recorded this before it aired.
1:34.6	But I am, appropriately enough, going to have to indulge in something of a confession right now.
1:39.4	I have never seen the show.
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