National Treasure | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | Operation Yewtree |
Written by | Jack Thorne |
Directed by | Marc Munden |
Starring | |
Composer | Cristobal Tapia de Veer |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
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Executive producers |
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Producer | John Chapman |
Production locations | |
Production company | The Forge |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 20 September 11 October 2016 | –
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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 Andrea Riseborough plays his daughter Dee.
The drama is inspired by Operation Yewtree, a police operation that resulted in the prosecution of a number of veteran TV performers.[2][3] At the 2017 British Academy Television Awards, the series won Best Mini-Series while Coltrane was nominated for Best Actor.[4]