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‘The Hack’: ITV’s
Phone-Hacking Drama Is Already Old News
Even the creatives behind Adolescence and Mr Bates vs The Post Office haven’t been able to reignite any interest in our problematic press, writes Tom Chivers
The ITV series The Hack had huge potential to give the 2011 phone-hacking scandal its own Mr Bates vs The Post Office moment.
Just like last year’s television sensation, surely a dramatisation of the criminality and cover-ups at Rupert Murdoch’s defunct News of the World would spark renewed public outrage and force politicians to finally give hacking victims the justice they were promised after the Leveson Inquiry into the British press?
Created by writer Jack Thorne – of Adolescence and This Is England fame – and the producers of Mr Bates, with a star-studded cast and tantalising trailers about “a fight for the truth”, viewers had every reason to expect that The Hack would be a gripping and incisive account of corruption and abuses of power at the heart of Britain’s newspaper industry.
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