Television has an incredible power to shed light on major events and over the years, we've been treated to amazing issue-led stories from major broadcasters that have highlighted wrongdoing. ITV struck gold with Mr Bates vs the Post Office , which detailed the events of the Post Office scandal , involving hundreds of subpostmasters accused and even sentenced for theft due to the Post Office's faulty IT system, Horizon. The show brought a renewed interest in the scandal, and led to former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells losing her CBE, and subsequent legislation that quashed convictions between 1996 and 2018.

ITV will also soon be broadcasting The Hack , a seven-part series detailing the phone hacking scandal which led to the closure of The News of the World . The phone

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