My nightmare on Death Row: IN a gribbing dispace from Indiana State Prison, veteran broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald is shocked

It’s been revealed today that a documentary about life inside HMP Aylesbury is set to feature shocking scenes in which an inmate threatens to cut the throat of another prisoner using a broken bottle… The film, which will air on ITV on February 18, will s

The subject matter for this programme is about as cheerful as the weather at the moment, but this should be an interesting,yet uncomfortable, watch. Newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald heads across the pond to a prison housing people on death row. He meets th

Sir Trevor McDonald's new ITV series Inside Death Row seemed to dent BBC One's popular Silent Witness last night. The documentary two-parter exploring American execution interested 4.46m (18.1%) in the 9pm hour, adding an impressive 507,000 on +1. Meanwh

Sir Trevor McDonald was trying to achieve a more objective voice in the first episode of Inside Death Row (ITV). American executions are a continual source of fascination and often moral high-grounding for British viewers, an appetite most recently fed b

One day someone will take away BBC4 and there will fall across the land a mighty lamentation, even though relatively few people watch it now and we all pretty much take it for granted. BBC4's problem – and this is by way of a confession – is that its pro

Even with America's Hardest Prisons and several other imitators available virtually 24/7 on the cable channels, the US penal system still exercises a peculiar fascination this side of the Atlantic. Supersized cons – American inmates seldom seem to weigh