The Latest Breaking News from Watergate

Fifty years ago, the national networks CBS, ABC and NBC dominated television screens in America and were the primary way voters obtained information: Each network, along with newspapers and radio, told its audience facts first, and all agreed on what the facts were. That meant Americans had a shared understanding…

The events of the infamous Watergale scandal took place during and after the 1972 US presidential election

This was the response when the actor famously left Downton Abbey at its height, fearful of being typecast as a floppy-haired aristo. Now based in LA, he’s starring in everything from comedy and horror to a new series about Watergate

The depth of Trump’s corruption is familiar but still astonishing when presented in the whole. Alas, his party shares it

The actress plays the outspoken socialite Martha Mitchell, the first to link President Richard Nixon to a burglary that led to his downfall.

Gaslit centres around Martha Mitchell, the wife of Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell

She’s electric opposite Sean Penn, playing corrupt Nixon aide John Mitchell in the darkly funny Starz series.

Julia Roberts returns to television in the limited series "Gaslit" for Starz