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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

The Clunes-naissance: why is Martin Clunes taking over our screens?

(Lauren Hurley/PA) - (PA Archive)

First Wuthering Heights, now this: the prospect of seeing Martin Clunes don a wig to play disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards in Channel 5’s latest drama.

The trailer looks ominous. In it, we see Clunes (wearing Edwards’ suit and stoic expression) turn predatory, as his character grooms a young boy and solicits explicit photos from him in exchange for cash.

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