TV Entertainment: True Crime

I return to a topic that worries all true crime fans.

I wrote about True Crime As Entertainment a few weeks ago. This time I have a slightly different point to make and it’s more about the morality of true crime on television. I am midway through Death on the Beach which is about numerous suspicious deaths and murders on the Thai Island of Koh Tao. I have to watch a lot of these TV documentaries to write Crime Guy because the TV film-makers have the highest budgets and often get the top interviews. Often, but not always. My preferred source of…