Overview
- Channel 5 released the first trailer on Thursday for Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, featuring Martin Clunes as the former BBC newsreader.
- Channel 5’s Ben Frow calls the production a first for the channel and says it includes access to people who reported and investigated the story.
- The programme explores Edwards’ “double life,” including a separate online relationship in which child abuse imagery was sent to him via WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021.
- Court reporting states Edwards pleaded guilty in July 2024 to making indecent images of children, admitting possession of 41 photographs with seven in Category A, and he received a six-month suspended sentence with sex-offender registration.
- Early social-media reaction to the trailer was split, with praise for the casting alongside criticism that the treatment is grotesque or sensationalist.