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Jul 15, 2020 · But, Thorne adds, the production team were keen not to base the Finchley case on anyone real. For one thing, he admits, there would be serious legal difficulties if they took this approach (plus ...
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Sep 16, 2016 · Harry Potter star Robbie Coltrane plays a fictional celebrity who’s accused of rape in National Treasure, a new Channel 4 drama that’s bound to cause a stir when it hits screens this weekend. Inspired by Operation Yewtree and the public horror that came following the discovery of Jimmy Savile’s terrible crimes, the four-part series asks ...
Finchley is first held up as a monster because he’s famous and that sells papers, but then the public turns on the women, wanting to believe Finchley is not the person he’s been accused of being.
Oct 4, 2016 · The episode showed Marie deciding to stand by her husband, after he is accused of rape – 30 years previously – by a woman called Rebecca Thornton, with Paul denying it ever happened.
Feb 26, 2017 · Paul Finchley (Robbie Coltrane) was the more irascible half of a popular British comedy duo (with Tim McInnerny ’s Karl), but his entire world collapses around him when he’s accused of a horrible crime. A woman comes forward to accuse Finchley of raping her in his trailer on the set of a movie decades earlier. And when that news hits the ...
Sep 21, 2016 · Robbie Coltrane plays Paul Finchley, an ageing comic accused of raping a woman in the 1990s. The role, writes Kevin Courtney in The Irish Times , external , is the former Cracker star's "most ...
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National Treasure is a four-part 2016 British television drama by Channel 4, written by Jack Thorne. [1] It stars Robbie Coltrane as Paul Finchley, a once successful comedian of the 1980s and early 1990s, now hosting a television quiz show. He is accused of raping several young women in the early 1990s. Julie Walters plays his wife Marie and ...
