Airdate: A Very English Scandal

ABC has added A Very English Scandal to its schedule from tonight.

The 3 part 2018 drama by Russell T. Davies and stars Hugh Grant as MP Jeremy Thorpe who was tried for conspiring to murder his former lover, Norman Scott (Ben Whishaw).

This was widely acclaimed and picked up a number of awards including Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.

This aired on Pay TV in September 2018 (TVT review is here).

A Very English Scandal is the shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy to murder. It’s the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been decriminalized, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party and the youngest leader of any British political party in a hundred years, has a secret he’s desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his vociferous ex-lover is around, Thorpe’s brilliant career is at risk, and eventually Thorpe can see only one way to silence Scott for good. The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed politics forever as the British public discovered the darkest secrets of the Establishment and the lengths they would go to to conceal them.

Adapted by Russell T Davies (Doctor Who, Queer As Folk from John Preston’s book A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment, the series stars Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe and Ben Whishaw as Norman Scott.

9:30pm Sunday on ABC.