STORM TRACKER: Follow 'Storm Amy' as it bears down on Ireland amid brutal forecast
Search
06 Sept 2025
Search
06 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
The life and death of BBC broadcaster Jill Dando will be documented in an upcoming series, Netflix has announced.
The 37-year-old former Crimewatch presenter, one of the BBC’s highest-profile stars, was shot outside her home in Fulham, west London, on April 26 1999.
NEW: Netflix is in production on a documentary series about the life and tragic death of Jill Dando. pic.twitter.com/UZ1xl0CU6Z
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) January 24, 2023
In a multi-part series currently in production, her life will be chronicled with a mix of archive, new research and interviews.
Netflix said it will focus on “Dando’s life, career, legacy and what would become one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the 20th century”.
The documentary is directed by Marcus Plowright, known for Fred And Rose West: Reopened and executive produced by Emma Cooper, who worked on The Mystery Of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes.
Dando’s former colleague and Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross campaigned for the Jill Dando Institute (JDI) of Crime Science at University College London in her memory.
The JDI offers courses aimed at police, community safety partnership analysts, researchers and information officers as well as teaching undergraduate and post-graduate programmes and researching how to stop crime.
When Ross collected a CBE at Windsor Castle in February 2022, he dedicated the honour to Dando and paid tribute to his “utterly committed” late co-host.
He said: “She was, I think like me and like other people involved in the show, changed by meeting more and more of the victims. But she was utterly committed to the show.”
Ross said the programme’s success in its prime was partly due to his “wonderful co-presenter”.
Outside of her work on Crimewatch, Dando was also seen during the 1980s and 1990s on BBC shows including travel show Holiday and The Antiques Inspectors.
She began as a reporter at her local paper The Weston Mercury in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, before moving to the morning programme Breakfast Time, which later became BBC Breakfast.
Barry George was arrested on suspicion of murder in 2000, a year after Dando was killed.
He was convicted and imprisoned for eight years, then acquitted and released after a retrial.
The Jill Dando documentary will be on Netflix in 2023.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
