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22 Aug 2024, 15:48
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The Vice President of Netflix's UK content has spoken out about the furore around Baby Reindeer and has insisted it's a 'drama, not a documentary' despite the 'true story' tag.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Netflix VP Anne Mensah told The Telegraph: “I absolutely stand by the fact that we made the show a drama, not a documentary, and that will remain how we see the show.”
Mensah explained how the show, created by Scottish comedian Richard Gadd and starring Jessica Gunning as stalker Martha Scott, has encouraged men to seek help from sexual abuse hotlines since.
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She said: “It was important for those reasons. If you feel it detracted from that, I would be absolutely disappointed, but I absolutely stand by all the show.
“It was about giving a creator the space to tell their story and that is true of everything we do. That is what’s important; if you are chasing publicity it’s the antithesis of what I believe in.”
Speaking about accusations of 'manipulating anybody [with] an algorithm', she added: "The truth is way simpler, which is [that] the audience is incredibly clever and incredibly diverse, and they spot good and not boring.”
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Following on from Fiona Harvey's $170million (£133m) lawsuit against the streaming giant, Gadd responded previously that the series is a 'fictionalised retelling of my emotional journey through several extremely traumatic real experiences'.
He added: “The Series is a dramatic work. It is not a documentary or an attempt at realism. While the Series is based on my life and real-life events and is, at its core, emotionally true, it is not a beat-by-beat recounting of the events and emotions I experienced as they transpired. It is fictionalised, and is not intended to portray actual facts.
“I did not write the series as a representation of actual facts about any real person, including Fiona Harvey… Martha Scott is not Fiona Harvey.”
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