Rockstar has slammed the BBC's Grand Theft Auto docudrama The Gamechangers, calling it "random, made up bollocks." The company fired out a pair of tweets directed at the BBC, comparing the show to the ropey 1984 kids TV show Rentaghost, as well as asking "Was Basil Brush busy?"

The one-off 90-minute show, which aired last night on BBC2, sees Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe play Sam Houser—one half of the notoriously media-shy Houser brothers—who co-founded Rockstar Games and developed the hugely successful Grand Theft Auto franchise. Set in 2002, it focuses on the period between GTA: Vice City and its sequel, GTA: San Andreas, when now-disbarred US lawyer Jack Thompson, played by Bill Paxton, launched legal action against Rockstar.

@BBC Was Basil Brush busy? What exactly is this random, made up bollocks? — Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) September 15, 2015

That Rockstar isn't best pleased with the docudrama comes as no surprise. Back in April when the the show was first announced, Rockstar attempted to sue the BBC for "trademark infringement," insisting that that neither publisher Take Two nor Rockstar had anything to do with the show's creation. "We have attempted multiple times to resolve this matter with the BBC without any meaningful resolution," read a company statement at the time. "It is our obligation to protect our intellectual property, and unfortunately in this case litigation was necessary."

Other ex-DMA Design staff (original creators of the GTA series) and developers were also critical of the show. Colin Macdonald, producer on the original top-down GTA, tweeted: "There's apparently some show on telly about some game I worked on. Can't bring myself to watch it though." Brian Baglow, who wrote the game's story, tweeted: "Current mentions of development team: zero. Current mentions there IS a development team: zero. Going very well."

The designer of the original GTA prototype, Mike Dailly, took a similar view, tweeting: "One day, the media will talk about a game, and not try and make out only one person was responsible...one day."

While reaction to the show has certainly been mixed, the show does at least draw on an interesting, or at least controversial period in GTA's history. Thompson's crusade against the company—in which he helped file a suit accusing that GTA "trained and motivated" an 18-year-old to murder three people in Fayette, Alabama—famously came to an end in 2008 when he was found guilty on 27 charges of misconduct and permanently disbarred.

If you missed the show and you're in the UK, you can watch The Gamechangers on BBC iPlayer for the next few weeks. The BBC has yet to confirm whether the show will be screened in the US.