Series: You can't make this stuff up

26 February 2016 - 09:29
By Andrew Donaldson

There's no shortage of real-life crime shows out there. Most of it is awful US tabloid TV, like Blood Relatives, I (Almost) Got Away With It and Wives with Knives. Stuffed with clunky re-enactments, interminable waffle from self-styled criminal behaviour analysts and syrupy voice-overs for the hard of thinking, they barely justify the claim that they are documentary programmes.

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