The Cook Report
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The Cook Report was a British television programme shown on ITV, produced for the network by Central Television from 1985 to 1998.
For sixteen series it featured Roger Cook travelling many miles investigating crooks and criminal activity and is best remembered for Cook's trademark confrontations with his targets, complete with his camera crew, in which he would often get verbally and physically abused.
The program has exposed child pornography, Northern Ireland protection rackets, baby trading in Brazil, loan sharks, the ivory trade, illegal immigration, drug dealing, war criminals in Bosnia and the Russian black market in weapons-grade plutonium.
The Cook Report ran regularly until 1998 when the programme hit its 120th episode. It was replaced by fewer, but longer, Cook Report Specials.
Roger is currently working on a number of projects, including further Cook Report Specials.
The News of the World published three articles between February and April 2000, alleging that a number of the Cook Report programmes had been faked. A libel writ was served by Roger Cook and in July 2002 the News of the World admitted that a series of reports alleging that episodes of the investigative TV show The Cook Report were faked were inaccurate and should not have been published.
