Lest you forget my original posting about Rebekah Brooks roller-skating through the Sun newsroom, the Comic Strip show is being screened tomorrow evening (20 January).
Red Top, with Maxine Peake in the Rebekah role, starts at 10pm on Gold. It is, as I previously wrote, a wonderful Fleet Street satire, a fantasy set in the 1970s with flairs, moustaches and disco music.
Conceived and written by Peter Richardson - with co-writers Pete Richens and Brigit Grant - it tells the story of a young girl from the north of England who accidentally becomes chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper outfit.
Watch out for cameo performances from Nigel Planer as Murdoch, Harry Enfield as Ross Kemp, Stephen Mangan as Tony Blair, Russell Tovey as Andy Coulson and Eleanor Matsuura as Wendi Deng.
There are also starring roles for Johnny Vegas, Alexei Sayle, Dominic Tighe (as a subservient David Cameron) and John Sessions.
