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David Tennant says TV drama Des ‘does not celebrate’ killer Dennis Nilsen – BBC News
The actor explains why he played the notorious mass murderer as “boring” in a new TV drama.
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In playing Dennis Nilsen, David Tennant says he tried to “illuminate the unilluminatable”
Dennis Nilsen was one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. David Tennant explains why he played him in a new TV drama as “boring”.
The main mystery in any TV drama about a murder – or murders – is usually whodunit. If not, it’s howdunit.
Those two questions are cleared up early in the first episode of ITV’s Des, which takes its title from the nickname for Dennis N…
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