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The Hack

October 2025

  • Keira Knightley in The Woman in Cabin 10

    Is being a Guardian reporter as exciting as the movies make out?

    Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?

September 2025

  • David Tennant as Nick Davies in The Hack

    TV review
    The Hack review – the astonishing story of phone-hacking makes for remarkably dull TV

    Jack Thorne’s lacklustre script – full of cringe-making lines, strange dreamlike sequences and a recurring dung beetle – fails to capture the drama of the Guardian’s landmark investigation into media corruption
  • A portrait of David Tennant in a newspaper office.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the phone-hacking scandal gets the Mr Bates treatment

    Jack Thorne dramatises the Guardian’s 2011 investigation into widespread illegality at the News of the World. Plus: who is the Ibiza Final Boss? Here’s what to watch this evening
  • David Tennant as Nick Davies in The Hack.

    The watcher
    The Hack: this spectacular, sprawling story about the phone-hacking scandal is this year’s Mr Bates

    David Tennant is at his chameleonic best in this account of the Guardian’s investigation into tabloid malfeasance. Telling this story metes out another small dose of justice
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