Red Top

About Red Top

Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets caught up in a seventies Watergate-style scandal.

Red Top is a 2016 comedy tv movie film directed by Peter Richardson. It runs 75 minutes and was released in January 2016.

Maxine Peake takes the lead as Rebekah Brooks, Russell Tovey as Andy Coulson, Stephen Mangan as Tony Blair, and Johnny Vegas as Johnny. The screenplay is by Brigit Grant and Pete Richens. Produced by Channel 4 Television.