The Peacock and Sky original series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, starring Colin Firth, has sparked mounting criticism from real-life victims’ families over the dramatic retelling of the aftermath of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, a spokesperson for the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 group and who lost her father, Frank Ciulla, in the December 1988 terrorist attack, tells The Hollywood Reporter that Lockerbie: A Search for Truth needlessly sensationalized the deadly airplane bombing.
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That includes in the first episode choosing to portray the Pan Am Boeing 747 being destroyed by a bomb that killed 270 passengers and crew, including 190 Americans, even if that meant triggering painful memories held by the victims’ families.
“By making the choice to show it (the bombing), making the choice to fill
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