David Tennant, Robert Carlyle Lead ‘The Hack’, ITV Drama on U.K.’s Notorious Phone-Hacking Scandal
The seven-part drama, penned by Jack Thorne, the author known for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and “His Dark Materials”, is produced by the same team behind “Mr Bates vs The Post Office”. This show sparked widespread interest in Britain as it revealed instances of severe mistreatment and miscarriage of justice, where hundreds of subpostmasters were falsely accused of theft and fraud due to a malfunctioning computer system. The impact of this series was so significant that the U.K. government felt compelled to introduce new legislation to clear the names of these wrongly convicted individuals.