Got it Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size For David Tennant and Robert Carlyle, The Hack is more than just a TV drama – it’s personal. Set between 2002 and 2012, the knotty new seven-parter about the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed the Murdoch media in Britain at the time interweaves two real-life stories. “It’s an extraordinary piece of recent history that I lived through and had a glancing blow with,” says Tennant. “This is a story of how important it is to maintain the standards of speaking truth to power,” Tennant says. “What’s really interesting is you can kind of understand how it [phone hacking] happened,” Tennant says.