When ITV supremo Kevin Lygo asked whether the “modern way of doing” true crime shows was “through Trevor McDonald or Piers Morgan”, Monkey confesses the answer that jumped to the simian mind was “no”.
However, mere weeks later it appears that the ITV duo will continue with their criminal-hunting trips to America.
Morgan will be back with another series of Killer Women after it “proved a hit with viewers”, said the broadcaster on Wednesday, while McDonald is to follow up his The Mafia series with Mafia Women, exploring the lives of those women close to the mob bosses he has previously turned the spotlight on.
Does this mean Lygo has decided the genre needs no freshening up after all? Not if a third commission, Undercover Prisoner, is anything to go by. The “social experiment” promises “a first hand insight into the experience of convicts inside the closed world of prison”.
