Highlights 2020 New Drama Des Press Contacts Rich Cain 0207 836 3030
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[email protected] Production Details Des is written by Luke Neal and developed by Luke Neal and Lewis Des is a true-crime drama focusing on one of the most Arnold based on material from the infamous criminal cases in UK history – Dennis Nilsen. book Killing for Company by Brian Masters. The series is Directed by Referred to as the ‘kindly killer’, Nilsen (David Tennant) was a local civil servant who Lewis Arnold, Produced by David spent five years murdering boys and young men he met on the streets of Soho, London Meanti and Executive Produced by from 1978 to 1983. He would meet and befriend these men before offering them Willow Grylls, Kim Varvell, Charlie food or lodgings for the evening back at his North London flat. His victims were often Pattinson and Elaine Pyke for New homeless or living off grid, having slipped through the cracks of 1980s society and Pictures, Polly Hill for ITV and were therefore welcoming of this stranger’s apparent generosity. When he was finally caught on 9th February 1983, Nilsen had murdered as many as 15 men over a period of Lewis Arnold, Luke Neal and David five years, making him Britain’s most prolific serial killer of the time. Tennant. After his arrest, Nilsen was astonishing in his honesty: initially admitting outright to all 15 murders in the police car outside his flat. But infuriatingly for the investigating detectives, he couldn’t remember any of his victims’ names.