Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards, focuses on how a young vulnerable man, played by Osian Morgan, came into contact with one of the most powerful figures in television.
“Beyond the salacious curiosity around this story, I really thought there was another story worth telling, that of [Edwards’ victim] ‘Ryan’ and his family,” said Clunes,
“Obviously the press and the media have focused on the fallen big man, Huw Edwards, which, of course, is a big story.
“But behind that, there’s this lad and his family whose lives got turned upside down and rather spoiled. I’m not on any social media and I had no idea that this sort of thing went on, I really didn’t.”
In July 2023, a national newspaper reported that “a top BBC star” had paid a teenager for sexual images.
Days later, Edwards’ wife named him as the presenter at the centre of the scandal.
He resigned from the BBC in April and was charged in June 2024 following a Metropolitan Police investigation.
In September 2024, Edwards was sentenced to a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children.