EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winner Steve Pemberton is playing villainous media mogul Rupert Murdoch in The Hack , ITV and Stan ‘s drama series about the phone-hacking scandal that brought down Murdoch’s News of the World.

Deadline brings you the news just a week after we told you Guy Pearce was circling a role playing Murdoch in Danny Boyle feature Ink .

Pemberton, best known for Inside No. 9, The League of Gentlemen and Killing Eve , is pictured as Murdoch above in The Hack appearing in the public Leveson Inquiry hearing alongside son James Murdoch, played by Jordan Renzo . Murdoch gave evidence with his son during the inquiry about phone-hacking claims at the now-defunct News of the World. James Murdoch, the then chairman of Murdoch’s News International, was notoriously

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