Thursday, 8th April 2021 at 10:00 pm
When I was training in journalism, one of my teachers told me that if a news intro is failing to grab anyone’s attention, you should try flipping the words around to ensure the focus is where it needs to be. It’s a trick that has served me well over the past couple of years and I only wish that Intruder screenwriter Gareth Tunley had received similar advice while working on Channel 5’s recent clunker.
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Airing over four consecutive nights, the show has suffered some highly critical reviews and been the subject of much (quite amusing) ridicule on Twitter. The truth is that it never stood a chance because – much like my wonky trainee intros which luckily never saw publication – the script’s angle is totally wrong. Quite clearly, this story should never have been about the awful Hickeys, but rather the victims of their crime.
Rating:
Wherever Intruder (Channel 5) is set, I want to live there. It’s clearly on the wild Irish coast you can tell from the houses, the seascape and the rugged hills.
It boasts a picturesque Celtic fishing harbour, and boozy wine bars with great seafood. There’s even a place that advertises itself as an ‘English pub’.
Equally apparent is that it’s within easy driving distance of London, which makes it an estate agent’s paradise. We glimpse thatched cottages . . . and also palm trees.
This geographically confused place is called Becksfield and it’s quite the most believable aspect of this drama. Everything else is rather more improbable.
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