This is a long, slow-moving documentary that does not go into much detail at all about what Jimmy actually did, criminally.
Other sources are needed to find out how prolific his sex crimes were, though because he was never brought to trial or arrested in his lifetime, it is hard to know whet went on exactly.
On the whole Savile was a man who ‘hid in plain sight,’ who was known as a serial abuser and creep to those close to him and his work but whose philanthropic acts made him invulnerable to close police scrutiny.
Typical of left-wing Netflix, the piece goes into great detail about every tie he had or might possibly have had with Margaret Thatcher. To be fair, he also had contact with the “Royals.”
Creep, abuser, groomer, rapist, national hero...
He’s sort of like all that is wrong with the American Left, all rolled into one middle-aged white guy, except he never committed murder.
Yes - the documentary does give a good background on his show business career but details on his crimes were slim beyond the fact that he was picking up under aged girls from what was essentially a girls reform school.
I suspect that the BBC has such influence they deliberately downplayed the BBC’s role in enabling his crimes.