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David Tennant to Play Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen in New ITV Drama

Lacy Baugher Milas

02 Dec 2019 — 2 min read

Former Doctor Who star David Tennant has been playing all sorts of roles since he left the TARDIS nearly a decade ago now. From a snarky, but soft-hearted demon in Good Omens to a mind-controlling monster in Jessica Jones and a tortured detective in Broadchurch, we already know he can pretty much do anything. And his newest role seems determined to test that theory.

Tennant has been cast as notorious serial killer Dennis Nilsen in a new drama headed to ITV (and presumably everywhere else) next year. Entitled Des, the three-part series will follow one the story of the most infamous cases in U.K. criminal history, in which Nilsen killed at least 12 boys and young men in his flat from 1978 to 1983. That number is uncertain because Nilsen went undetected for so long, and was only caught out when a local officer was summoned to investigate human fragments of flesh and bone clogging the drains in the building in which he lived.

(Yikes, by the way.)

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