The Hack

Wednesday, streaming on Stan

When TV is done right, it can be genuinely transformative. Not only in terms of audience experience — though immersing yourself in a good old binge-watch can certainly appear to stop time — but in terms of society as a whole.

Good TV gets people talking; shines a light on long-buried injustices and has the capacity to move the needle on popular consensus, prompting laws to be changed, charges to be laid and power to be held to account.

Stan’s excellent new seven-part limited series, about the phone hacking scandal that brought down Britain’s bestselling newspaper the News Of The World back in 2011, has all the hallmarks of one such series.

Written by Adolescence creator Jack Thorne and produced by the team behind global success Mr Bates vs The Pos

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