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The Hack [ITV]

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  • #2
    waywill1966
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    Tennent looks like Harpo Marx in this!



  • #3
    Radio5
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    And Toby Jones doesn't look like Murdoch either!

    A very starry cast. Hope it makes the best use of them. I saw the real Nick Davies at an event when he was promoting the book Hack Attack. Very interesting speaker.

    George Clooney was to make a movie of it but it never happened.



  • #4
    brian_t
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    Starts Wednesday, 24th September at 9pm.



  • #5
    brian_t
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    And starts on VM1 on Thursday 2nd October at 9pm.



  • #6
    Radio5
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123781932#Comment_123781932

    Toby Jones is portraying Alan Rushbridger, editor of the Guardian- not Murdoch, my mistake.

    Steve Pemberton is portraying Murdoch.



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    gipi
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123773816#Comment_123773816

    I saw that photo in a newspaper yesterday, thought it was David McCullagh!



  • #8
    Bogey Lowenstein
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    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Watched the first episode but they really overdo the asides to the camera and breaking the fourth wall.

    It can be very effective if used sparingly like in House of Cards, but use it too much and it just draws me out of the show.



  • #9
    corkie
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    For search purposes: -

    The Hack
    Investigative journalist Nick Davies receives an anonymous tip-off regarding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. Following the trail, he discovers damning evidence that proves phone hacking at the paper was not the work of 'one rogue reporter', as has been claimed for years but was endemic. Nick and his long-time editor and friend Alan Rusbridger decide to risk their careers and their newspaper to go up against one of the most powerful media organisations in the world. Drama, starring David Tennant and Toby Jones

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • #10
    corkie
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    Thanks to who ever moved my post, tried searching for the existing thread, unsuccessfully. Before creating a new thread.

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • #11
    corkie
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    @Bogey Lowenstein Yea they really over did the talking to the camera in it!

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



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