It’s the case that’s gripped the nation, but could the small-town tragedy be turned into a TV series - and should it?
“Audiences love it,” says Monjo of the true crime genre. “And networks love it because it has a built-in audience, and you can promote it, and that’s what they’re always looking for in TV, some sort of built-in audience that they can guarantee.”
“You have to be acutely aware that real people are going to be swept up in the story you’re telling,” adds Nine’s Ryan. “You have to treat that with respect and integrity.” In the case of a true crime story – and it is by no means yet clear if that is what the Leongatha case is – that might mean a victim, a survivor or a detective involved in it. That will offer the production a point of view, vitally important in attempting to frame a complex story.Nine came in for heavy criticism for rushing its biopicinto production less than a year after Shane Warne’s death.
Whatever conclusions people might have drawn, the woman at the centre of the story still has the right to be presumed innocent. If criminal charges are eventually laid, the possibility of dramatising the story becomes more real. But if they are not, it becomes far more distant, because the risk remains that charges might be laid at some point down the track, which would make screening any drama highly problematic.
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