This was the best drama documentary I have seen all year. Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford were excellent as Charles and Diana Ingram. Aisling Bea added a note of comedy to the proceedings. But the best performance by far I was by Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant, perfectly capturing all the strange vocal inflections and physical movements of the original. Some commentators have suggested that the show was unfairly biased towards Charles and Diana. However I thought it fair to put both sides of the argument. If you choose to believe that they were completely guilty then that is up to you. However, it does seem clear that the presentation of evidence was skewed by the television company themselves and that many of these shortcomings were pointed out by the defendant's solicitor. My only slight complaint is that this would have been much tighter as one show, maybe an hour and a half, rather than dragged out into three 1-hour instalments. I also felt that some of the minor players in the drama, for example Diana's brother, did not bring very much to the proceedings and and I could have done without knowing of his personal difficulties.
