Murdoch's Scandal, PBS, review - Telegraph Characterisation was high-minded, almost demanding pantomime boos or cheers. There were the good - The Guardian, The New York Times and Mark Lewis, the steely lawyer with crowd-pleasing overcoats (black with asymmetric collar, orange three-quarter length). Then there were the not-so-good - some with "Murdoch" in their name and weaselly red-top journos in general. You yearned for the unexpected. Hugh Grant announcing that he was tired of his reflection, perhaps. Steve Coogan unimpressed by the sound of his own voice. Sadly, neither dignified proceedings with their presence, but there was a cameo from the fabulously unapologetic Paul McMullan, the now-defunct News of the World's deputy features editor turned publican. McMullan volunteered that he'd been shown how to hack a phone by a teenager. They were all doing it at school, apparently. Of his paper's methods, he confided, perhaps with an eye to his well-read American audience: "If you get caught you go to jail, but if you don't you get a Pulitzer Prize." More troublingly, the allegation that the Milly Dowler voice messages were deleted by the News of the World was retailed without qualification. Only at the end did it explain that Scotland Yard has since said that the messages may have been erased automatically. The most impressive interviewee was Lewis, who represented phone-hacking victims, before himself being placed under surveillance by the paper. He seemed bemused but unbroken by the events that flowed from his original case against the Murdoch empire, merely saying: "Two years or so ago I walked into a John Grisham novel." Or quite possibly Freddie Starr's mouth.