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ALISON BOSHOFF: Cancel culture is like 'kicking a corpse' says Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville as he prepares to play a fallen national treasure in new ITV drama
The very black comedy - shown to international buyers this week during the London TV Screenings festival - echoes the ruckus last year which saw Huw Edwards suspended from his job at the BBC.
Hugh Bonneville is the spitting image of newscaster Huw Edwards in the forthcoming ITVX drama Douglas Is Cancelled, in which he plays a 'national treasure' who is abandoned by his agent, colleagues and bosses in the wake of a scandal. Douglas Is Cancelled was written by Sherlock creator Steven Moffat in 2018, long before Edwards or the Schofield drama, which saw the presenter stand down as the host of This Morning after admitting to an 'unwise but not illegal' affair with a young colleague. Winslet, who won an Emmy for TV hit Mare Of Easttown, plays the crackers dictator of an imagined central European state, who has an affair with her soldier bodyguard Zubak (Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts) in the six-part show.
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