{"id":360767,"date":"2025-08-21T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360767\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:47:11","slug":"first-look-at-baby-reindeer-creators-new-tv-series-half-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360767\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at Baby Reindeer creator’s new TV series Half Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Half Man follows both successes and much controversy over Gadd’s first project, Baby Reindeer, which was shown on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Adapted from his one-man show, Baby Reindeer is based on the true story of how the comedian, from Wormit in Fife, was stalked by a woman after a brief, innocuous encounter in a London pub.<\/p>\n

The drama also depicts how he was groomed and raped by an older man he considered a friend, and the harrowing impact on his life.<\/p>\n

It won six Emmys, two Golden Globes and received the most nominations at this year’s Bafta TV awards – though won only one for Jessica Gunning as best supporting actress. <\/p>\n

Although steps were taken to prevent identification of some of the characters, viewers speculated about the real identity of stalker, Martha, as well as that of a male TV writer who rapes Gadd’s character, Donny.<\/p>\n

It led to real-life figures getting touch with police after being linked with the programme.<\/p>\n

Last year Netflix has failed in its attempt to persuade a judge to throw out a defamation lawsuit<\/a> brought by Fiona Harvey, the woman who inspired the stalker character in Baby Reindeer.<\/p>\n

Ms Harvey claims the streaming giant told “brutal lies” about her to more than 50 million viewers around the world.<\/p>\n

The show is billed as “a true story”, but a judge concluded certain key events, like a conviction for stalking, did not happen in real life.<\/p>\n

Netflix has vowed to “defend this matter vigorously”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half Man follows both successes and much controversy over Gadd’s first project, Baby Reindeer, which was shown on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-360767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}