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Hacks. Image shows from L to R: Ho Chi Mao Feast (Eleanor Matsuura), Stanhope Feast (Michael Kitchen), Connor Feast (John Hopkins)
Hacks

Hacks

  • TV sitcom
  • Channel 4
  • 2012
  • 1 episode

Satire on the phone-hacking scandal set at a fictional newspaper where "any means necessary" doesn't begin to cover it. Stars Claire Foy, Michael Kitchen, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Planer, Phil Davis and more.

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Hacks. Image shows from L to R: Oliver Bland (Nigel Planer), Kate Loy (Claire Foy), Stanhope Feast (Michael Kitchen)

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2012
Channel
Channel 4
Episodes
1
Stars
Claire Foy, Michael Kitchen, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Planer, Phil Davis, Alexander Armstrong, Russ Abbot, Celia Imrie and more
Writer
Guy Jenkin
Director
Guy Jenkin
Producer
Jimmy Mulville
Company

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.

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 1st January 2012 at 10pm on Channel 4
Episode length
1 hour
All previous repeats
  • Monday 2nd January 2012 at 11:40pm on C4

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