Silk and The Village actor to play ‘innocent and beguiling northern girl’ Rebekah,who accidentally becomes chief executive of News InternationalPeter Richardson’s comedian Strip series will turn its attention to Rupert Murdoch and the phone-hacking scandal in a current one-off comedy, The Red Top!, or starring Maxine Peake,Russell Tovey and Stephen Mangan.
Peake will play flame-haired Rebekah, an “innocent and beguiling northern girl who accidentally becomes chief executive of News International and gets caught up in a 70s Watergate-style scandal” in the one-off comedy on UKTV’s Gold.
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Source: theguardian.com