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ITV to air drama about Guardian’s role in breaking phone-hacking scandal

Toby Jones as Alan Bates in Mr Bates vs the Post Office in front of London court
Toby Jones as Alan Bates in Mr Bates vs the Post Office. Jones will play the former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock

An ITV drama about the Guardian’s role in breaking the phone-hacking scandal that closed the News of the World will be aired later this year starring Toby Jones from Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

The seven-part series will follow both the work of the Guardian journalist Nick Davies, played by David Tennant, and the police investigation into the unsolved murder of the private investigator Daniel Morgan.

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