But beneath the sensational plotlines is a more complex story about the evolving dynamics within a tight-knit community.
He said in 2001, about 300 school children had been injured travelling to and from school.Patricia Lewsley-Mooney, then an SDLP MLA who would later become the children's commissioner in Northern Ireland, remembers that was among a number of road safety improvements discussed.
It is a move that "still makes perfect sense", she told BBC News NI, and one that would also need other drivers to comply with the required law changes."Back then it was decided we would go down a different route, we would put better red warning lights on the back of buses."That more than 20 years later there are still safety improvement calls, she said, is disappointing.
A French horn player has said that being part of an orchestra that includes disabled and neurodivergent musicians has helped her to be herself.Georgina Spray, 25, plays for and is assistant music leader for the Birmingham National Open Youth Orchestra (NOYO) ensemble.
She is set to perform with the orchestra in an inclusive concert experience at Birmingham Town Hall on 8 June.
"As an autistic musician, NOYO has given me opportunities within the music sector… I'm in an ensemble where I belong and I can be myself," she said."Apart from everything that everybody's been saying about him - that he was an unbelievable champion of the arts and so on - he also had a real gift for friendship," he said. "He was a very strong ally in bad times."
Sir Salman added: "He was a great programme maker, and I hope that's how he will be primarily remembered."Yentob leaves a "colossal" legacy, he said. "He's one of the giants of British media in the last generation, and I think he will be remembered as a maker of great programmes, as an enabler of great programmes."
The pair's personal and professional relationship extended to Yentob famously enlisting Sir Salman to take part in a spoof arm wrestle for a scene in BBC mockumentary W1A."People keep asking me who won," Sir Salman said. "And of course nobody won because it was complete fraud."