Rich Fulcher's BBC spoof comes to iPlayer

The BBC is re-releasing Sexy Murder, its spoof of true crime series such as Making A Murderer and The Serial podcast, as a single half-hour episode.

Starring Rich Fulcher, the comedy originally launched in October this year as six five-minutes episodes.

However, the BBC has now revealed that it will be available on iPlayer from December 13 as a single half-hour show,

Mighty Boosh star Fulcher plays 'Televisionary' and 'Truth Crusader' Christoph Spinelli who's come to the UK to do for British crime what he's done for America: speculate to the point of insanity and make a story out of absolutely nothing.

Sexy Murder also stars Nick Mohammed, Lolly Adefope, Shaun Williamson fellow former EastEnders actor Maggie O’Neill, Phil Wang, Daniel Barker and Marcia Warren.

It was co-written by Céin McGillicuddy and Andy Kinnear, who previously created BBC Three's police spoof Top Coppers, which starred John Kearns and Steen Raskopoulos. 

In a statement, the pair said: ‘We love the true crime documentary genre, it’s ridiculously entertaining. But that’s what we found so fascinating. Documentaries should really be impartial and factual, but often you’re subliminally made to think "Listen to that villainous music, he blatantly did it" or "Look at all the carefully chosen footage of this guy smiling with his family, he can’t be a murderer!".

‘Sometimes entertainment takes precedence over objectivity. So, consciously or not, true crime documentaries are often in the business of making murder sexy.’

Sexy Murder remained under the radar on YouTube, with its six episodes amassing only 15,971 views between them. Watch them here.

Published: 21 Nov 2016