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Huw Edwards Drama 

5 has announced a new two-part drama based on the true story surrounding the downfall of BBC News presenter Huw Edwards. 

The series, currently going by the working title Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, has been in development for a year, and is the first collaboration between 5’s factual and scripted commissioning teams. 

According to 5, the series will explore "the newsreader’s double life as it spirals out of control, leading him to make the greatest announcement of his career – his total exit from public life following his conviction for serious child sexual offences". 

Edwards pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children back in 2024, with the former broadcaster given six months' imprisonment suspended for two years and required to complete a sex offender programme. 

Announcing the series, 5 called the new commission an "unflinching drama" and a "complex, emotional and nuanced portrait" of the scandal surrounding Edwards. 

It added that it will "build on extensive factual research over the past 12 months, including extensive first hand interviews and co-operation from those at the heart of the scandal and exclusive access to The Sun newspaper’s award-winning investigation into Edwards".

8 January 2026

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