Miniseries
All seasons:
1
director:
Lewis Arnold
playwright:
Jack Thorne
/
Annalisa D'Innella
actor:
David Tennant
/
Toby Jones
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Robert Carlyle
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Rose Leslie
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Steve Pemberton
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genre:
Drama
region:
United Kingdom
language:
English
season number: 1
number of episodes: 7
release date: 2025-09-24
IMDb: tt35615598
part of TV Series: The Hack
Overview
The series revolves around the demise of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World. The scandal came to light with revelations that a private investigator, hired by the paper, had hacked the voicemail of Milly Dowler, a murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl. The subsequent investigation resulted in the arrest of over 100 individuals, the imprisonment of Downing Street’s director of communications, the resignation of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, an unprecedented public inquiry into the ethical practices of the British press, and ultimately, the closure of one of the world’s oldest and most widely read newspapers.