Ronson: Exploring a "grey area"

In e-mails to his interviewer, journalist Jon Ronson, King said he saw the programme as a way to get his side of the story across.

One reviewer has said the documentary "peers through the looking glass both ways" at the case.

Ronson got to know King before his trials and spent nine months conversing with him by e-mail and with meetings.

Ronson has admitted to being charmed by King, but has said the programme will not be biased towards the former singer and TV presenter.

The documentary was intended to "occupy the grey area between the apologists and the vigilantes", he said.

"I have grown to like Jonathan King, but he is guilty. As likeable as he is, he did it," he wrote after the conviction.

'Vile behaviour'

King will be seen questioning why his victims - many of whom approached police years after they said they were assaulted - did not report him at the time.

"They kept coming back to me again and again and again, although this vile behaviour was supposed to be taking place," he said during the video diary.

"Why on earth would anybody do that? I'd be out of that house as fast as I possibly could. I'd make damned sure I was never alone with that person again. Mad."

King was found guilty of four indecent assaults and two serious sexual offences against boys aged 14 and 15, committed in the 1980s.

He denied the charges and has told Ronson how he hoped the documentary would challenge views arising from the reporting of the case.

"I do hope The Real Jon Ronson will have the courage and integrity to take up the crusade (whatever the outcome) that it is grossly unfair for the accused person/people to be smeared all over the media," he said in an e-mail to the journalist.