Overview

• Episode one airs tonight at 9pm on ITV1, with all seven episodes available to stream now on ITVX and weekly broadcasts to follow.
• David Tennant plays Guardian reporter Nick Davies, Robert Carlyle portrays DCS Dave Cook and Toby Jones appears as editor Alan Rusbridger, with Steve Pemberton as Rupert Murdoch.
• The drama charts how investigative reporting uncovered widespread voicemail interception at the News of the World, a scandal that helped force the paper’s 2011 closure after revelations including the Milly Dowler case.
• A parallel storyline follows the decades-long, unsolved 1987 murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan, later judged in a 2021 inquiry to have been mishandled by an institutionally corrupt Met Police.
• Writer Jack Thorne says the show aims to honor persistent journalism while testing how unchecked media power erodes public trust.