The British Broadcasting Corporation has a reputation for being relatively well meaning in its programming with decent production values, thanks to its lack of a need to pander to advertisers. However its recent attempt to cover the history of the Grand Theft Auto franchise and its earliest days as part of Rockstar Games, has not gone over well.
While some have reported the show as entertaining, Rockstar hasn't seen it that way, stating via Twitter that:
"@BBC Was Basil Brush busy? What exactly is this random, made up bollocks?"
Along with the development of GTA, the BBC's "The Game Changers," covered the life and legal battles of Sam Houser, one of the co-founders of Rockstar Games. While that character, played by Daniel Radcliffe, was said to be well acting, the problem lay with the fact that nobody from Rockstar, especially those with characters in the film, spoke to the BBC during production.
That means that while a lot of facts are correct - since much information on the happenings at the time were drawn from court documents and the press - much of the personal stuff was fabricated and a lot of the relationships have been fictionalised, hence Rockstar's swipe, referencing a famously pranking puppet from children's television.
Did any of you have a chance to watch the docudrama? If so, what did you think?
