Hacks, created by Drop The Dead Donkey writer Guy Jenkin, takes a satirical swipe at the recent momentous events surrounding the British newspaper industry.

Set in a fictional paper the drive to get the story is intense - the phrase "by any means necessary" doesn't even cover it. Phone hacking, blagging, pinging... the staff here do it all. But it's all about to unravel and in a big way...

Editor Kate Loy doesn't take any prisoners and Stanhope Feast, who is the proprietor of the tabloid she runs, demands she always gets the biggest stories first. But her moral compass went awry a long time ago - something that's about to cause her major problems. As the scandal breaks and the net closes in on her, things get funnier for the viewer as things go from bad to worse for the characters.

Our Review: This comedy drama based on the phone hacking scandal didn't take itself too seriously, and was a real joy to watch as a result. It was far more of a comic retelling of events - almost as if through the medium of pantomime at times - than a biting satire, a distinction that we are aware disappointed some, but being packed full of sharp lines, some of them laugh-out-loud good, Hacks entertained most of the audience from start to finish.

Highlights included watching reporter Rav Musharraf (Fonejacker's Kayvan Novak) trying to blag details via the phone, pretending to be everyone from the Pope to Royal Family members in the process; and Stanhope Feast's wife battering the protester at the select committee (parodying and accentuating the real-life reaction to the pie landing in Rupert Murdoch's face) - blood spattering across the room was a delightfully absurd exaggeration.

It's unlikely the Murdochs themselves would be fans of the show: Hacks blatantly parodied the News Of The World story, with the media mogul portrayed as a bit of a rude tyrant, his son as a weak-willed and rather incompetent fool, and the paper's reporters as barely sharing a single moral between them.