• Director(s)

    Marc Evans

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Cast

    Steffan Rhodri, Philip Glenister, Karen Paullada

TV Show

Steeltown Murders

STEELTOWN MURDERS is a British crime drama series based on true events; in this episode, the team battle to seek permission to exhume a suspect's body in order to extract DNA from him. …

STEELTOWN MURDERS is a British crime drama series based on true events; in this episode, the team battle to seek permission to exhume a suspect's body in order to extract DNA from him.

  • Director(s)

    Marc Evans

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Cast

    Steffan Rhodri, Philip Glenister, Karen Paullada

strong language, references to sexual violence
Classified Date:
12/05/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('bullshit', 'bastard', 'shit', 'bloody', 'piss', 'hell').
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are verbal references to a man raping and killing young women. A woman describes being tied up by her attacker who masturbated in front of her and raped her. On another occasion, police speculate that a rapist allowed victims to put their clothes back before killing them.
additional issues
There is crime scene detail of dead bodies, as well as moderate sex references.
strong language
Classified Date:
12/05/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('f**k') as well as milder terms which include 'shit', 'bastard', 'bloody', 'bugger', 'Christ' and 'hell'.
additional issues
We briefly glimpse the clothed legs of a dead teenage girl. There are undetailed verbal references to child sexual abuse, rape and domestic violence. There is mention of semen in the context of a police forensics examination of a dead body. A man chases after a car, banging on it in a threatening fashion. There are scenes of emotional upset as parents discuss the murder of their daughter.
strong language
Classified Date:
15/05/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘prick’, ‘arse’, ‘bullshit’, ‘bloody’, ‘bastard’ and ‘bugger’.
additional issues
A woman becomes distressed as she indicates, without explicit verbal detail, that her late ex-husband was abusive. Non-graphic references to the murders of two teenage girls include brief images of a police photograph of a bruise on the jaw of one of the victims. A man tells police that a suspect used to chat up girls outside a club, ‘the younger the better’. There is also an upsetting scene in which a bereaved mother recalls seeing blood stains when identifying her daughter’s clothing. Other issues include a comic reference to ‘getting laid’.
strong language
Classified Date:
11/05/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
Use of strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'shit', 'bloody', 'bugger', 'bastard', 'God', 'hell', 'damn' and 'Christ'.
additional issues
There are verbal references to the historic rape and murder by strangulation of three teenage girls. There is brief crime scene detail. It is strongly implied that a man routinely abused his partner. There is brief, undetailed sight of a dead body.
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  • Classified date

    11/05/2023

  • Distributor

    Spirit Entertainment

  • Language

    English