David Tenannt as Nick Davies in ITV's The Hack

David Tennant is to take the lead in a new ITV drama from the team that created the award-winning Mr Bates vs. The Post Office.

The former Doctor Who star is set to play investigative journalist Nick Davies in The Hack, a new seven-part series which will tell of the phone-hacking scandal.

Set between 2002 and 2012, ITV has said the show will “interweave two real life stories”, with Robert Carlyle and Toby Jones also set to play Met Police Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook and former editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger, respectively.

The cast boasts impressive names from British television including Rose Leslie, Steve Pemberton,

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