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Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards to be played by Martin Clunes in new drama
The two-part drama will detail Edwards's grooming of a vulnerable 17-year-old, police investigation, guilty plea, and suspended sentence in a high-profile BBC scandal.
- Martin Clunes will portray former BBC presenter Huw Edwards in a two-part factual drama commissioned by 5 and produced by Wonderhood Studios under the working title Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards.
- After a national newspaper's report named a 'top BBC star', a report in The Sun alleged he paid a vulnerable 17-year-old for sexual pictures and accessed 377 sexual images via WhatsApp exchanges.
- Guy Davies and Paul Testar, commissioning editors , commissioned the drama, marking 5's first factual-scripted collaboration and Wonderhood Studios' first drama output, with Michael Samuels, director, and Mark Burt, writer.
- Following a Metropolitan Police investigation, Huw Edwards pleaded guilty and admitted three offences at Westminster Magistrates' Court; he received a suspended sentence, was placed on the sex-offenders register for seven years, and largely exited public life, damaging the BBC's reputation.
- The project aims to renew public scrutiny of broadcaster safeguarding and accountability, building on a year of research and exclusive interviews, as the scandal stained the BBC and was widely followed by the British press.
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Channel 5 blasted for creating Huw Edwards drama starring Martin Clunes: 'Very poor taste!'
Channel 5 has come under fire for announcing Martin Clunes will be the lead role in a forthcoming production chronicling the dramatic fall from grace of former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards
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